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Peer reviewedPalmer, Joseph W. – RQ, 1992
An examination of OCLC's EPIC service and standard video reference tools revealed that EPIC was more comprehensive in finding video titles on the popular or specialized topics of bonsai, genealogy, karate, and holography, because of its keyword searching ability on the massive OCLC database. (11 references) (EA)
Descriptors: Abstracts, Cataloging, Comparative Analysis, Costs
Peer reviewedReese, Carol – RQ, 1988
The relative effectiveness of the CD-ROM information retrieval system, InfoTrac II, and the manual "Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature," was studied. Seventeen community college students were divided into two groups which researched the same questions either on CD-ROM or in the printed index. Results showed the "Readers'…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Indexes, Information Retrieval
