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Peer reviewedPinto, Maria; Lancaster, F. W. – Library Trends, 1999
Presents various levels of criteria for judging the quality of abstracts and abstracting. Requirements for abstracts to be read by humans are compared with requirements for those to be searched by computer. Concludes that the wide availability of complete text in electronic form does not reduce the value of abstracts for information retrieval.…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Abstracts, Bibliographic Databases, Electronic Text
