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Peer reviewedBallard, Terry – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1994
Describes a study conducted to determine the main differences in online catalog searching styles and results among library staff, faculty, and patrons at Adelphi University (New York). Transaction log analysis, questionnaires, zero hit searches, keyword, author, title, subject, and other search strategies were evaluated to determine patterns of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Higher Education
Peer reviewedJasco, Peter – CD-ROM Professional, 1991
Describes and compares several exchange/transfer formats used to upload records into software host programs, including unstructured or plain ASCII; fixed field; delimited ASCII; tagged; MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging); and graphic. It is concluded that CD-ROM producers should strengthen the built-in output management of programs and offer…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Computer Software Evaluation
Peer reviewedKountz, John – Library Hi Tech, 1991
Argues that the analytical comparison of library collections to the people using those collections could provide insights related to library acquisition priorities and practices, and describes and illustrates a method for analyzing this relationship. A sidebar by Myra White describes an application of the results of such a study at California…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Graphs
Peer reviewedBeals, Diane E. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1992
Discusses the use of communication on computer networks as a data source for psychological, social, and linguistic research. Differences between computer-mediated communication and face-to-face communication are described, the Beginning Teacher Computer Network is discussed, and examples of network conversations are appended. (28 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Analysis, Computer Networks
Coutts, Brian E.; Richard, John B. – Library Journal, 1993
Reviews 30 reference sources in all subject areas, except the sciences, that were published in 1992. Appropriateness for public, academic, or other type of library is given in each review. CD-ROM products are included in this annual list for the first time, and the competition between print and CD-ROM reference works is described in a sidebar.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Higher Education
Atkins, Helen; Lyons, Catherine; Ratner, Howard; Risher, Carol; Shillum, Chris; Sidman, David; Stevens, Andrew; Van de Sompel, Herbert; Lagoze, Carl; Van de Sompel, Herbert; Krichel, Thomas; Nelson, Michael L.; Hochstenbach, Patrick; Lyapunov, Victor M.; Maly, Kurt; Zubair, Mohammad; Kholief, Mohamed; Liu, Xiaoming; O'Connell, Heath; Kingma, Bruce R.; Pritcher, Lynn – D-Lib Magazine, 2000
Includes five articles that discuss publishers' metadata hyperlinks with Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) on the Internet; the Santa Fe Convention of the Open Archives initiative (Oai) that promotes author self-archiving; the Universal Preprint Service; costs of digital, microfiche, and print access; and an online database of old print…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Authors, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedKuntz, Jerry – Library Computing, 1999
Presents criteria for evaluating and comparing Web search tools designed for children. Highlights include database size; accountability; categorization; search access methods; help files; spell check; URL searching; links to alternative search services; advertising; privacy policy; and layout and design. (LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Accountability, Advertising, Children
Peer reviewedJacobs, N.; Woodfield, J.; Morris, A. – Journal of Documentation, 2000
Presents methodology and findings of an empirical study comparing local citation patterns with the holdings lists of various sources of journal articles in the United Kingdom, including the British Library. Topics include identifying data that indicates researchers' use of journals in academic libraries and identifying data to indicate journal…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Comparative Analysis, Document Delivery, Foreign Countries
Download full textChan, Anthony P. – 1990
This study identifies, estimates, and compares the cost of copy and original cataloging of print and non-print materials with four major online database vendors--the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN), the Western Library Network (WLN), and the University of Toronto Library Automation Systems…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Utilities, Cataloging, Comparative Analysis, Costs
Trahan, Eric – 1990
A meta-analytical literature review was performed on the literature in which computerized and paper based information retrieval systems were compared. Specifically, online catalogs were compared with card catalogs, and online bibliographic retrieval was compared with searching printed indexes. Studies which included information on relevance,…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Card Catalogs, Comparative Analysis, Indexes
Compton, Lawrence E. – 1991
This study investigated the use patterns of four CD-ROM systems--Newsbank Electronic Index, SilverPlatter's ERIC and PsycLIT, and Dissertation Abstracts Ondisc--and their print index counterparts in the University of Georgia (UGA) Main Library, which houses collections and provides library services for the humanities, the social sciences, and…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Higher Education
Council of Chief State School Officers, Washington, DC. – 1986
The terms, definitions, and procedures used by states in obtaining student counts are investigated as part of the Education Data Improvement Project of the Council of Chief State School Officers. The Project describes state collection of data elements currently contained in the common core of data of the National Center for Education Statistics.…
Descriptors: Average Daily Membership, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Databases
Aronson, Jules – 1977
This report delineates the theory and terminology of data compression. It surveys four data compression methods--null suppression, pattern substitution, statistical encoding, and telemetry compression--and relates them to a standard statistical coding problem, i.e., the noiseless coding problem. The well defined solution to that problem can serve…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Programs, Computer Storage Devices, Cost Effectiveness
Peer reviewedMcCain, Katherine W.; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1987
Assesses the impact of current coverage and indexing policies on MEDLINE's retrieval performance in the medical behavioral sciences literature by comparing retrievals in EXCERPTA MEDICA, PSYCHINFO, SCISEARCH, and SOCIAL SCISEARCH. Searches were made with descriptors, cited references, and natural language, and recall, precision, and novelty ratios…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Citations (References), Comparative Analysis, Databases
Peer reviewedBorgman, Christine L.; And Others – Online Review, 1985
Results of survey indicate that: academic faculty are unaware of range of databases available; few recognize need for databases in research; most delegate searching to librarian or assistant, rather than perform searching themselves; and 39 database guides identified tended to be descriptive rather than evaluative. A comparison of the guides is…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Guides
