Electronic Selective - "Evaluation of Veterinary Literature"

Is There an Information Explosion in Veterinary Medicine?

The field of veterinary medicine has not been isolated from the rapid information growth occurring in biomedical sciences. In fact, the rate of growth far outstrips the rate of growth of any previous period. A 1988 article speaking specifically about the field of veterinary medicine points out that at the 1988 rate of expansion of knowledge, it will increase 512% by the year 2000!

As an example of the rate of expansion of publication in journals alone, the five key journals mentioned earlier had a total of 885 articles indexed in 1988. In 1994 the number rose to 997, an increase of 13% for just those five journals In addition, new specialty journals have been added to the growing list of titles to choose from.

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