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Hall, Angela M. – 1972
Since subject indexes are extensively used in retrieval from abstracts journals it is surprising how little data is available on the performance of the many types of indexes now available. A handful of projects have been carried out in which an attempt has been made to isolate the elements which influence the performance of printed subject-indexes…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Indexes, Information Retrieval, Information Scientists
Download full textHall, Angela M. – 1972
The object of this study was to record detailed descriptions of the procedure employed in a number of actual searches of the indexes to Science Abstracts. From these data, any problems which the users encounter would be shown and any areas in which the indexes might be better structured to suit the users' requirements might be determined.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Indexes, Information Retrieval, Librarians
Wilman, H.; Hall, Angela M. – 1973
A series of five runs comprised of 20 searches each were carried out in a three-year span of the INSPEC data base. The same queries were processed manually in the corresponding volumes of Science Abstracts, and comparison of the output of each search method exposed reasons for the failures. Emphasis is laid on the fact that a query comprises other…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Bibliographic Coupling, Citations (References), Computer Oriented Programs
