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Lo, Amanda Siewling; And Others – Microcomputers for Information Management, 1991
Outlines the process of a CD-ROM desktop publishing project at Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Highlights include the planning process; data generation and database development; data preparation, including data conversion and indexing; full text retrieval; assembly and production; and distribution. (three…
Descriptors: Desktop Publishing, Full Text Databases, Higher Education, Indexing
Peer reviewedHunt, Leta (Li); Wegner, Lucy S. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1996
Discusses the role of end users in the design of a multi-format digital library project, ISLA (name derived from Spanish word for "island"), being developed at the University of Southern California library for the study of the Los Angeles region. Topics include spatial and temporal indexing; the geographic information system element;…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Computer System Design, Electronic Libraries
Peer reviewedBrooks, Sam – Library Quarterly, 2003
Documents the reasons for embargoes of academic journals in full text databases (i.e., publisher-imposed delays on the availability of full text content) and provides insight regarding common misconceptions. Tables present data on selected journals covering a cross-section of subjects and publishers and comparing two full text business databases.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Comparative Analysis, Electronic Journals
Peer reviewedMehta, Usha; Goodman, Beth – Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, 1997
Describes the InfoTrac SearchBank based on experiences at the University of Nevada, Reno, libraries where the service is available through the online catalog. Highlights include remote access through the Internet; indexing and abstracting; full-text access to 460 journal titles; a powerful search engine; and business-oriented databases.…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Academic Libraries, Electronic Journals, Full Text Databases
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
Larson, Ray R. – Proceedings of the ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, 1994
Describes collaboration between the University of California at Berkeley and four other universities to develop interoperable servers containing each participant's Computer Science Technical Reports and to make them available over the Internet using standard protocols. The proposed library architecture, approaches to indexing and retrieval, and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Automatic Indexing, Computer Networks
