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Fidel, Raya; Soergel, Dagobert – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1983
Presents conceptual framework for organization of factors (independent variables) affecting online bibliographic retrieval. Roles that variables play in research studies are described and examples considering various elements--setting, user, request, database, search system, searcher, search process, search outcome--are provided. Twenty-one…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Retrieval, Online Systems, Performance Factors