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Download full textBrandhorst, Ted, Ed. – 1992
Rules and guidelines are provided for the preparation of abstracts and annotations for documents and journal articles entering the ERIC database. Various types of abstracts are defined, including the Informative, Indicative, and mixed Informative-Indicative. Advice is given on how to select the abstract type appropriate for the particular…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Databases, Information Retrieval, Information Storage
Brandhorst, Ted, Ed. – 1980
Rules and guidelines are provided for the preparation of abstracts and annotations for documents and journal articles entering the ERIC database. Various types of abstracts are defined, including the Informative, Indicative, and mixed Informative-Indicative. Advice is given on how to select the abstract type appropriate for the particular…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Databases, Information Retrieval, Information Storage
Weller, Carolyn R., Ed. – 1992
Rules and guidelines are provided for ERIC catalogers and editors engaged in capturing bibliographic data for the documents and journal articles entered into the ERIC database. A general discussion of the principles of ERIC cataloging, definitions used, use of mandatory vs. optional data elements, etc. is provided in the Introduction. The body…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Check Lists, Classification, Databases
Brandhorst, Ted, Ed. – 1982
Rules and guidelines are provided for ERIC catalogers and editors engaged in capturing bibliographic data on the documents and journal articles entered into the ERIC database. The material is organized by data element: Accession Number, Price Code, Pagination, Publication Date, Title, Journal Citation, Language, Publication Type, Descriptors,…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Check Lists, Classification, Databases
Weller, Carolyn R., Ed.; Houston, Jim, Ed. – 1992
Comprehensive rules, guidelines, and examples are provided for use by ERIC indexers and lexicographers in creating and using Identifiers, and in developing and maintaining the ERIC Identifier file via the "Identifier Authority List (IAL)." Identifiers and the IAL are defined/described: Identifiers are highly specific entities, including…
Descriptors: Databases, Documentation, Information Retrieval, Information Storage
Weller, Carolyn R., Ed. – 1981
Comprehensive rules, guidelines, and examples are provided for use by ERIC indexers and lexicographers in creating and using Identifiers, and in developing and maintaining the ERIC Identifier file via the "Identifier Authority List (IAL)." Identifiers and the IAL are defined/described: Identifiers are highly specific entities, including…
Descriptors: Databases, Documentation, Information Retrieval, Information Storage
Houston, Jim, Ed. – 1992
Comprehensive rules, guidelines, and examples are provided for use by ERIC indexers and lexicographers in developing and maintaining the "Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors." Evaluation and decision criteria, research procedures, and inputting details for adding new Descriptors are documented. Instructions for modifying existing Thesaurus…
Descriptors: Databases, Documentation, Information Retrieval, Information Storage
Bolin, Robert L. – 1984
This manual explains how to use the FAMULUS program package in a computing environment where most text is input through terminals and most files are stored on disks. Developed in the late 1960s by the Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station of the United States Forest Service, FAMULUS was conceived as a personal documentation system…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Guidelines, Information Retrieval
Houston, Jim, Ed. – 1981
Comprehensive rules, guidelines, and examples are provided for use by ERIC indexers and lexicographers in developing and maintaining the "Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors." Instructions are included for adding new Descriptors and modifying existing terminology; procedures for justifying these actions are provided, as well. Definitions and…
Descriptors: Databases, Documentation, Information Retrieval, Information Storage
Houston, Jim, Ed. – 1992
Rules and guidelines are provided for subject indexing in the ERIC system. The principle of "subject access" is discussed with particular reference to "coordinate indexing," which involves designating subject content by unit terms (or tags) that may be put together or "coordinated" for subsequent retrieval. The nature…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Coordinate Indexes, Databases, Indexing
Barnett, Lynn, Ed.; Houston, Jim, Ed. – 1992
Subject indexing in ERIC is performed by subject specialists across 16 geographically dispersed ERIC Clearinghouses, each responsible for a different niche or aspect of educational information. This phenomenon, combined with the broadness of the education field and variability of terminology therein, has led to the development at the…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Clearinghouses, Databases, Decentralization
Brandhorst, Ted, Ed.; Houston, Jim, Ed. – 1980
Rules and guidelines are provided for subject indexing in the ERIC system. The principle of "subject access" is discussed with particular reference to "coordinate indexing," which involves designating subject content by unit terms (or tags) that may be put together or "coordinated" for subsequent retrieval. The nature…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Coordinate Indexes, Databases, Indexing
Booth, Pat F.; South, M. L. – 1982
Designed to be a foundation work, this book about information storage and retrieval includes discussions of theory as well as descriptions of practice. It is intended for: (1) students at both the graduate and non-graduate level who are beginning formal studies of librarianship/information science; (2) staff of library/information units who have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Indexes, Indexing
Stebegg, K.; Oberhauser, O. – 1984
This paper is primarily an annotated listing of criteria for selection of a microcomputer to be used for online information retrieval. The paper was used by the University Library of the Technische Universitat Wien (Vienna, Austria) while preparing to contact computer dealers and to inform them about the library's needs in this specialized area of…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer Software, Computer Storage Devices, Evaluation Criteria
