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Peer reviewedFlood, Barbara J. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Provides a brief background of the Biological Abstracts' title index, "Biological Abstracts' Subject in Context" (BASIC) "Stop List," or compilation of nonsignificant words that were going to be automatically stopped from printing. Notes that the Stop List provided an improvement over the raw computer output of titles while…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Classification, Computer Oriented Programs, Indexes
Wilman, H.; Hall, Angela M. – 1973
A series of five runs comprised of 20 searches each were carried out in a three-year span of the INSPEC data base. The same queries were processed manually in the corresponding volumes of Science Abstracts, and comparison of the output of each search method exposed reasons for the failures. Emphasis is laid on the fact that a query comprises other…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Bibliographic Coupling, Citations (References), Computer Oriented Programs
