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Download full textStout, Sheri A. – 1993
This study compares ABI/INFORM and Wilson Business Abstracts in order to determine user preference. Surveys in the form of questionnaires were used to evaluate users' preference of interface, database response time, search results and ease of use with both business CD-ROM databases. Kent State University students, faculty, and patrons interested…
Descriptors: Chi Square, College Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Database Producers
Hersh, William R.; Hickman, David H. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1992
Describes a study that compared two information retrieval systems on a full-text medical database: one featured concept-based automatic indexing and statistical retrieval techniques, and the second used traditional word-based Boolean techniques. Evaluation of search results by calculating relative recall and precision is discussed, and user…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods
