microliterature
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From micro- + literature.
Noun
[edit]microliterature (uncountable)
- A body of short articles and publications, each containing only a little new information.
- 1961, Allen Kent, editor, Information Retrieval and Machine Translation, page 1045:
- By a systematic scanning of microliterature, a list of these can be made.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:
- There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.
- 2001, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, “Intergenerational Altruism”, in Essays on Saving, Bequests, Altruism, and Life-cycle Planning, page 181:
- Finally, there is a microliterature on transfers (see Cox 1987 and Kotlikoff 1988 for summaries) that appears, on balance, to reject the altruism model.