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Nicholls, Paul; Holtmann, Susanne – Laserdisk Professional, 1989
Compares free text versus controlled vocabulary searching for information relating to women's issues on the ERIC laserdisk database from Dialog. Topics discussed include terminology and women's studies; Boolean operators; and adequacy of the ERIC thesaurus for searching relevant topics including women's social roles, antiabortion movement, teenage…
Descriptors: Abortions, Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis, Females
Bostian, Rebecca; Robbins, Anne – Laserdisk Professional, 1990
Describes an experiment that examined the relationship between successful searching of CD-ROM databases by undergraduate students and various types of instruction provided by the library staff. The findings indicate that the only level of instruction that resulted in a significant difference was a live demonstration of searches. (six references)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education