We study a bibliography of documents on a new topic, namely microcomputer software for online information and documentation work. A general Lotka function is fitted to the frequency form of the distribution of items in this bibliogra phy. Data are also described by a truncated Leimkuhler curve; behind the truncation point the so-called Groos droop begins. We show that such droops cannot be explained as the result of a relatively high scattering, due to the recentness of the topic.
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