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- Bibliographic review about citation analysis of research publications as a method for study information needs and use by research users of libraries. Once compared the local citation analysis studies from the works of potential users of a library against the citation studies from the bibliography in the international or national data bases, the review takes account of the different document sources for the local citation analysis studies. As an indirect method for user and information use studies is an efficient unobtrusive method, that allow to collect information at a level of detail not available through other methodsThe implications of disintermediation for librarians and information specialists (intermediaries) can be experienced as either a threat or a challenge, depending on how the issue is viewed. The different ways in which information specialist can react to disintermediation are discussed. Although most of these are viable, none addresses all implications of desintermediation. A holistic approach to desintermediation is therefore proposed, in which the situation of the intermediary is viewed within the wider society. The following aspects should be analyzed with regard to their effect on desintermediation: changes in the society at large, the availability of information services. The specific end-users and the information specialist involved should also be analyzed. With this approach it will be found that the effects of desintermediation will vary according to the particular situations. To prepare information specialists for the effects of desintermediation, their training should also be adapted accordingly.
Translation of: The electronic Library, vol. 17, nº 1, January 1999, by Tomás Saorín Pérez.
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