Indexing Terms in the LISA Database on CD-ROM.

Hood, William; Wilson, Concepcion S.

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ERIC Number: EJ481943

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Publication Date: 1994

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Indexing Terms in the LISA Database on CD-ROM.

Hood, William; Wilson, Concepcion S.

Information Processing and Management, v30 n3 p327-42 May-Jun 1994

Summarizes the findings of a recent study on the indexing practices used in the Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) database. Descriptors, or indexing terms, from the thesaurus are analyzed; searching implications are discussed; and the relationship between the classification code and the descriptors is examined. (Contains 21 references.) (LRW)

Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Classification, Indexing, Library Science, Optical Data Disks, Search Strategies, Statistical Distributions, Subject Index Terms, Tables (Data), Thesauri

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Language: English

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