Primary Information System
Primary information systems are systems that publish, disseminate and mediate primary information (primary literature) and research data such as scientific journals and books. In the UNISIST model of information dissemination are primary information systems and services opposed to secondary information systems and services as well as tertiary information systems.
Literature:
Dalton, M. S. (1995). Refereeing of Scholarly Works for Primary Publishing. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 30, 213-250.
Freeman, R. R.; Gray, D. E.; Herschman, A.; Lerner, R. G.; Libbey, M. A. et al. (1967). Techniques for Publication and Distribution of Information; Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 2: 339-384.
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Hernon, P. & Relyea, H. C. (1988). The United-States Government as a Publisher. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 23, 3-33.
Hills, P. J. (1983). The Scholarly Communication Process. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 18, 99- .
Hjerppe, R. (1986). Electronic publishing: Writing machines and machine writing. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 21, 123-166.
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Kling, R. & Callahan, E. (2003). Electronic journals, the Internet, and scholarly publishing. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 37, 127- .
Landau, H. B. (1969). Document Dissemination. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 4, 229-270.
Lerner, R. G.; Metaxas, T.; Scott, J.
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text-processing. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 18,
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Information Science and Technology, 26, 39-73.
See also:
Composition Studies; Document typology;
Editing & editor;
Primary literature; Publishing, electronic;
Selection; Scattering;
Written communication
Birger Hjørland
Last edited: 26-04-2006