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Peer reviewedCory, Kenneth A. – Library Trends, 1999
Drawing upon an efficacious method for discovering previously unknown causes of medical syndromes and searching in the Humanities Index, an illuminating new humanities analogy between the epistemological ideas of Robert Frost and the ancient Greek philosopher Carneades was found by constructing a search statement in which proper names were coupled…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Humanities, Information Retrieval, Problems
Peer reviewedCory, Kenneth A. – Computers and the Humanities, 1997
Contends that large databases contain hidden knowledge, or literature that is logically linked but not bibliographically linked, that contains academically interesting commonalities not retrievable by normal searching methods. Based on search methods for discovering previously unknown causes of medical syndromes, a method for discovering new…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Databases, Humanities
