Documentation List
Abstract
A documentation list (DL) is a systematically arranged list covering, wholly or mostly, the documents containing nascent micro thought, to serve mainly the specialist users. A good DL is expected to have the following attributes: comprehensiveness, accuracy, recency, and easy accessibility. There are various types of DLs from the point of view of their contents, coverage, standard, and services aimed at. But basically we can distinguish the following types of DL: bare list like current awareness list and index; and enriched list like annotated bibliography, abstracting periodical, review-of-progress, news digest, and collectanea. Some essential steps in compilation of a DL are: deciding the type of list to ...
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