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An Evaluation of Indexing Services for Women's Studies Periodical Literature.

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Mesplay, Deborah; Koch, Loretta – RQ, 1993

Evaluates the coverage provided by eight indexing and abstracting services in the interdisciplinary field of women's studies. Content pages for 17 women's studies journals were checked against appropriate indexes to determine the comprehensiveness of coverage, and "Women Studies Abstract" was found to provide the best coverage. (15…

Descriptors: Abstracting, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Indexes

Three Library and Information Science Databases Revisited: Currency, Coverage and Overlap, Interindexing Consistency.

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Blackwell, Michael Lind – 1994

This study evaluates the "Education Resources Information Center" (ERIC), "Library and Information Science Abstracts" (LISA), and "Library Literature" (LL) databases, determining how long the databases take to enter records (indexing delay), how much duplication of effort exists among the three databases (indexing…

Descriptors: Abstracting, Abstracts, Access to Information, Citation Indexes

ERIC: Sphinx or Golden Griffin?

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Lopez, Manuel D. – Urban Education, 1989

Evaluates the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database. Summarizes ERIC's history and organization, and discusses criticisms concerning access, currency, and database content. Reviews role of component clearinghouses, indexing practices, thesaurus structure, international coverage, and comparative studies. Finds ERIC a valuable…

Descriptors: Abstracting, Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis