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Brooks, Terrence A.; Bierbaum, Esther G. – Library and Information Science Research, 1987
Assesses bibliographic databases as part of visionary text systems such as hypertext and scholars' workstations. Downloading is discussed in terms of the capability to search records and to maintain unique bibliographic descriptions, and relational database management systems, file managers, and text databases are reviewed as possible hosts for…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Database Management Systems, Information Transfer

Brooks, Terrence A. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1988
Proposes a solution to the problem of loading repetitive bibliographic information in a microcomputer-based relational database management system. The alternative design described is based on a representational redundancy design and normalization theory. (12 references) (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Database Management Systems, Information Retrieval, Information Storage

Brooks, Terrence A. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1993
This test of the Strategy of Unlimited Aliasing, an indexing method that places terms from several indexers for the same information object in one index, utilized bibliographic records from the ERIC, LISA (Library and Information Science Abstracts), and ISA (Information Science Abstracts) databases. The test did not support the indexing method.…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis, Indexing, Information Retrieval