microliterature

English

Etymology

micro- +‎ literature

Noun

microliterature (uncountable)

1. 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, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →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.

Antonyms

• macroliterature