Definition of "microliterature"

By a systematic scanning of microliterature, a list of these can be made.

1961, Allen Kent, editor, Information Retrieval and Machine Translation, page 1045

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.

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, page viii

Finally, there is a microliterature on transfers (see Cox 1987 and Kotlikoff 1988 for summaries) that appears, on balance, to reject the altruism model.

2001, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, “Intergenerational Altruism”, in Essays on Saving, Bequests, Altruism, and Life-cycle Planning, page 181