We investigated the number of books and periodicals which are used by researchers in writing papers. The investigation depends on the indirect way of counting at the level of NDC 100 clasifications the number of the references which appear in each paper and thesis. On the results, the most striking points are as follows : 1) The number of references are 9.2 volumes of books and 4.9 volumes of periodicals in the field of humaities and social sciences, while in the field of natural sciences and technology they are 0.7 volumes of books and 5.7 volumes of periodicals. Above all, the academic fields which depend 90 percent and over of their references on the periodicals are manufacturing industory, earth sciences, chemical technology, medical sciences, zoological sciences, chemistry, physics, botanical sciences, and astronomy. 2) The academic fields which depend 70 percent and over of their references on the domestic materials are architecture, silkreeling industory, household management, geography, history of Japan, Japanese language and literature, Chinese language and literature, Shintoism, Buddism, fine arts, history in general, and social sciences and welfare. On the other hand, the academic fields which depend 70 percent and over of their references on the oversea materials are mathematics, physics, biology and natural history, stockbreeding and veterinary medicine, botanical sciences, phylosophy, German language and literature, French language and literature, and other foreign languages and literatures. These data will be useful to estimate the number of books and periodicals that should be suitably stocked in the academic libray according to its specialities.
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