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Sacks, Risa – 2001
This book presents interviews with 12 of the best primary researchers in the business. These research professionals reveal their strategies for integrating online and offline resources, identifying experts, and getting past gatekeepers to obtain information that exists only in someone's head. Topics include how searchers use a combination of…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Services, Internet, Interviews
Peer reviewedFidel, Raya – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1991
These three articles discuss online search key selection based on observations of professional online searchers, interviews, and analyses of the verbal and search protocols involved. The selection routine is described, the use of controlled vocabulary versus free text searching is examined, and searching styles are discussed. (44 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Expert Systems, Full Text Databases, Interviews
