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Ma, Lai – Education for Information, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has had limited effects on access to and use of information. In the last few decades, much information has been digitised, if not created and produced, online. Confined in physical space and sitting at a desk (or kitchen table), people are able to connect to the outside world through various applications on a laptop and other…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Computer Mediated Communication, Information Scientists
Berrios, Julia A.; Nimon, Kim – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2018
The cloud-based research synthesis platform metaBUS is presented as a tool for human resource development research. A general overview of the meta-analysis tool metaBUS is provided. In addition, this article shows how metaBUS can be utilized for other research purposes such as a starting point for identifying keywords when conducting literature…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Labor Force Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Information Retrieval
McAlindon, Kathryn; Neal, Jennifer Watling; Neal, Zachary P.; Mills, Kristen J.; Lawlor, Jennifer – American Journal of Evaluation, 2019
Despite growing interest in data visualization and graphically aided reporting, the evaluation literature could benefit from additional guidance on systematically integrating visual communication design and marketing into comprehensive communication strategies to improve data dissemination. This article describes the role of targeted communication…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Marketing, Graphic Arts, Technical Writing
Rocchio, Rose A. – EDUCAUSE, 2014
Smartphone ownership among college-aged Americans is high and growing, and many students own more than one mobile device. Such devices are increasingly incorporated into the academic lives of students, and the era of "bring your own everything" presents new opportunities and challenges for higher education. Mobile data collection is the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Handheld Devices, Higher Education, Technology Integration
Farrell, Beth – Library Journal, 2010
First offered to public libraries in 2004, downloadable audiobooks have grown by leaps and bounds. According to the Audio Publishers Association, their sales today account for 21% of the spoken-word audio market. It hasn't been easy, however. WMA. DRM. MP3. AAC. File extensions small on letters but very big on consequences for librarians,…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Library Services, Usability, Audio Books
Marino, Nancy Robinson – Library Talk, 1998
Discusses the use of webliographies, collections of Internet sites on a particular subject, to help students find relevant and useful sources on the World Wide Web. Highlights include the validity of information sources; developing criteria for evaluating information; how to set up a webliography Web page; and HTML commands. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Information Retrieval

Wynne, Allen – Special Libraries, 1979
Describes the production of computer-generated author and key-word-from-title indexes to book reviews in physics: the sources, the processing, and the storage and retrieval system. Data elements available from the indexes include author, title, local call number, publisher, year of imprint, month and year of publication, series, cost, and…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Information Processing, Information Retrieval, Information Sources
Miller, L. L.; Honavar, Vasant; Barta, Tom – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1997
Describes an extensible object-oriented view system that supports the integration of both structured and unstructured data sources in either the multidatabase or data warehouse environment. Discusses related work and data mining issues. (AEF)
Descriptors: Databases, Information Retrieval, Information Sources, Information Storage

Oard, Douglas W.; Diekema, Anne R. – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 1998
Reviews research and practice in cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) that seeks to support the process of finding documents written in one natural language with automated systems that can accept queries expressed in other languages. Addresses user needs, document preprocessing, query formulation, matching strategies, sources of translation…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Information Retrieval, Information Sources, Literature Reviews

Miyamoto, Sadaaki – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1998
Develops a method of rough retrieval, an application of the rough set theory to information retrieval. The aim is to: (1) show that rough sets are naturally applied to information retrieval in which categorized information structure is used; and (2) show that a fuzzy retrieval scheme is induced from the rough retrieval. (AEF)
Descriptors: Classification, Cluster Analysis, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking

O'Donnell, Holly – Journal of Reading, 1979
Describes the expediency of searching the ERIC data base by computer. (MKM)
Descriptors: Computers, Databases, Educational Resources, Information Retrieval
Balas, Janet L. – Computers in Libraries, 1999
Reviews Web-search tools available to librarians. Discusses the Clever project, (part of the Computer Science Principles and Methodologies Department at the IBM Almaden Research Center, Silicon Valley, California), an algorithm that finds authoritative sources on the Web; Google technology, based on links between Web pages; Ask Jeeves, a…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Information Retrieval, Information Sources, Library Services
Arms, William Y. – EDUCOM, 1984
Discusses sources of scholarly information including libraries (focusing on shared cataloging and information retrieval systems), nonbook materials, data archives, and commercial databases. Also discusses computing information and integration, the latter considering quality control, terminals, communications, user interfaces, and long-term…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Databases, Higher Education, Information Retrieval
Cole, Timothy W.; Kaczmarek, Joanne; Marty, Paul F.; Prom, Christopher J.; Sandore, Beth; Shreeves, Sarah – 2002
The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (PMH) is designed to facilitate discovery of the "hidden web" of scholarly information, such as that contained in databases, finding aids, and XML documents. OAI-PMH supports standardized exchange of metadata describing items in disparate collections, of such as those…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Information Sources, Information Technology, Library Collections
Snelson, Pamela – Database, 1982
Describes the online version of Comprehensive Dissertation Index as it is searchable through the DIALOG system. File content, searchable indexes, and particular features of the file such as online sorting of retrieved citations and text backup are discussed. Accompanying the text are 13 figures illustrating system features and two sample searches.…
Descriptors: Databases, Doctoral Dissertations, Information Retrieval, Information Sources