Soviet Geographic Literature
| Autor: | V. V. Pokshishevskiy, V. S. Preobrazhenskiy, N. I. Mikhaylov, I. V. Komar, E. M. Murzayev, A. N. Gratsianskiy, L. S. Abramov, V. M. Gokhman |
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| Rok vydání: | 1971 |
| Předmět: |
Government
business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Library science General Medicine Geography Five themes of geography Publishing Regional studies Information system General Earth and Planetary Sciences Social science Soviet union business Sophistication General Environmental Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | Soviet Geography. 12:495-528 |
| ISSN: | 0038-5417 |
| Popis: | A review of geography publishing in the Soviet Union analyzes the output of literature by categories of end-users: (1) publications designed for professional geographers, including works on theory and method, university textbooks, periodicals and serials, and bibliographic and information services; (2) geographic publications intended for the public at large, including regional studies of different levels of sophistication on the Soviet Union and foreign areas as well as popular geography books; (3) geography textbooks and study aids for elementary and secondary schools, which represents the largest portion of geography publishing in terms of volume, with an average of 4 million books printed each year. Recommendations for improvements in geography publishing include the creation of a Council on Literature, made up of professional geographers; the establishment of a centralized publishing house that would specialize in geography (except for textbooks, government publications and special-purpose li... |
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