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Download full textHehmeyer, Lauren – 1988
The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a national information system sponsored by the Department of Education. Traditionally, access to ERIC materials has been through the printed indexes "Resources in Education" (RIE), a guide to documents and research reports, and "Current Index to Journals in Education"…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Indexes, Online Searching, Optical Disks
Simon, Hans-Reiner – 1986
Designed to provide students of information science with an introduction to British librarian Samuel Clement Bradford's 1934 findings about the scattering of information, this reader on Bradford's Law begins by discussing its use in calculating search procedures in printed bibliographies as well as in databases. The following additional materials…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographies, Bibliometrics
Kabus, Karl, Ed. – 1989
In addition to outlining the 100 online services available to students, this guide provides basic information about electronic databases and instructions for conducting searches. After an introduction to the various types of searches possible and the costs of searches, the guide describes how to choose an appropriate database. The basics of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Databases, Higher Education, Information Sources
Piette, Mary I.; Smith, Nathan M. – 1989
This manual introduces the novice searcher to ERIC on Disc and discusses how to prepare for a search by creating a search statement; how to locate ERIC terms using the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors; and how to modify and limit the search using boolean logic. A computer keyboard illustration accompanies descriptions of the functions of the…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, College Libraries, Guidelines, Higher Education
Wendling, Dan – 1989
Intended to provide journalism students with an introduction to electronic information retrieval, this guide outlines a few of the 500 online services available to them on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus. The concept of the quality versus the quantity of citations retrieved is introduced and emphasized throughout. Services available at…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Utilities, Higher Education
Simmons, Robert M. – 1989
This annotated bibliography/resource guide is intended to assist users in locating resources on educational research in the Bridgewater (Massachusetts) State College Curriculum Library. The first of five sections provides a listing of 25 basic sources for locating educational research, including indexes and abstracts of periodicals and serials of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographic Databases, College Libraries, Computer Software
Pappas, Marjorie L.; And Others – 1996
The ever-increasing availability of electronic information resources online and on CD-ROM presents library media specialists, teachers, and students with a new set of challenges for accessing information. Electronic information resources enable access to nonlinear information, which allows searchers to explore relationships and make connections…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks
