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Student Technology Use in the Information-Seeking and Information-Gathering Process: A Critical Incident Approach for Benchmarking Performance
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Cordes, Sean – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2012
This article is an exploratory study of student behavior using online tools to do project-based work for a library science course at a mid-sized Midwestern public university. The population was 22 net generation students aged 18-24, who were enrolled in an Introduction to Information Resources course. The study was designed to better understand…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Computer Uses in Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Publishing
Selected Search Subroutines for Searching the ERIC Data Base with the Lockheed Dialog Information Retrieval Service.
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Bourne, Charles P.; And Others – 1977
This collection of search formulations was assembled to assist in Dialog Searching of the ERIC data base. The formulations represent modular building blocks or concepts that occur frequently when searching this file. They have been formulated and described in such a way that they can be used as given, or they can be modified to suit specific…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Retrieval, Information Science, Information Seeking
Cybersemiotics: A New Interdisciplinary Development Applied to the Problems of Knowledge Organization and Document Retrieval in Information Science.
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Brier, Soren – Journal of Documentation, 1996
Explains an interdisciplinary framework for library information science, especially information retrieval, which considers sociocultural context of search terms in a way that the cognitivist information processing paradigm does not. Limitations of cognitivist information processing conceptions are discussed, as well as the possible effects of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Context Effect, Cultural Context, Information Processing
The Foundations of Access to Knowledge. A Symposium.
Montgomery, Edward B., Ed. – 1968
In 1965 the Syracuse University School of Library Science held a symposium to explore the nature of the relationship between the structure and transmission of knowledge, on the one hand, and the array of bibliographic devices which have been developed to facilitate access to that knowledge, on the other. Papers presented discussed the need for a…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Coupling, Citation Indexes, Citations (References), Indexes
An Experiment in the Batch Processing of Retrospective Searches.
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
A Comparison of Costs of Searching the Machine-Readable Data Bases ERIC and "Psychological Abstracts" in an Annual Subscription Rate System Against Costs Estimated for the Same Searches Done in the Lockheed DIALOG System and the System Development Corporation for ERIC, and the Lockheed DIALOG System and PASAT for "Psychological Abstracts."
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Palmer, Crescentia – 1976
A comparison of costs for computer-based searching of Psychological Abstracts and Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) systems by the New York State Library at Albany was produced by combining data available from search request forms and from bills from the contract subscription service, the State University of New…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computers, Cost Effectiveness, Costs