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English author and bibliographer John Carter describes bibliography as a word having two senses: one, a list of books for further study or of works consulted by an author (or enumerative bibliography); the other one, applicable for collectors, is "the study of books as physical objects" and "the systematic description of books as objects" (or ...
It is intended as a research tool for finding sets of information. For comprehensive listing of bibliographies on Wikipedia see, Category:Wikipedia bibliographies. See also: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (lists of works)#Bibliographies.
A bibliography, the product of the practice of bibliography, is a systematic list of books and other works such as journal articles. Bibliographies range from "works cited " lists at the end of books and articles to complete, independent publications.
An annotated bibliography is a bibliography that gives a summary of each of the entries. [1] The purpose of annotations is to provide the reader with a summary and an evaluation of each source. Each summary should be a concise exposition of the source's central idea(s) and give the reader a general idea of the source's content. [2] [3]
A bibliographic record is an entry in a bibliographic index (or a library catalog) which represents and describes a specific resource.A bibliographic record contains the data elements necessary to help users identify and retrieve that resource, as well as additional supporting information, presented in a formalized bibliographic format.
A bibliographic database is a database of bibliographic records.This is an organised online collection of references to published written works like journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, reports, government and legal publications, patents and books.
Bibliometrics is the application of statistical methods to the study of bibliographic data, especially in scientific and library and information science contexts, and is closely associated with scientometrics (the analysis of scientific metrics and indicators) to the point that both fields largely overlap.
Monographs divided into several volumes Journal issues bound into volumes in a library. A volume is a physical book.It may be printed or handwritten.The term is commonly used to identify a single book that is part of a larger collection.