Pattern of information use by Indian surgical scientists- A citation study

133-142<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">Discusses the pattern of information use by researchers in the field of surgery as indicated by citations in the M.S. Dissertations submitted to the Gulbarga University, Gulbarga during 1982-1989. Identifies the use of different sources of information, their languages, countries of origin and subjects. States the obsolescence of literature and lastly applies Bradford's Law of Scattering. The findings of the study have implications for the development of need based collection in library and Information centre’s in the field of surgery.