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Simon, Hans-Reiner – 1986
Designed to provide students of information science with an introduction to British librarian Samuel Clement Bradford's 1934 findings about the scattering of information, this reader on Bradford's Law begins by discussing its use in calculating search procedures in printed bibliographies as well as in databases. The following additional materials…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographies, Bibliometrics
Peer reviewedGreen, Rebecca – Library Quarterly, 2000
Discussion of the information-seeking behavior of humanists focuses on a study that investigated the efficacy of following bibliographic references from documents already known. Topics include the nature of humanities research; vocabulary control and indexing; subject-based literature searches; seed documents; relevance; retrieval based on…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Citations (References), Humanities, Indexing
Peer reviewedRosen, L. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1989
This overview outlines important databases providing relevant articles and information for professionals conducting research in the fields of blindness and disability. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Blindness, Information Retrieval, Information Sources
Download full textStrohmenger, C. Todd; Lanham, Berma A. – 1991
This manual, designed to be used with a video tape, provides information for conducting a workshop to familiarize educators with the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). Objectives of the workshop include: (1) to develop an understanding of the contents and structure of the ERIC database; (2) to develop an understanding of ERIC as a…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Information Centers, Information Retrieval
Howley, Craig B.; And Others – 1992
This guide explains what the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database is and how it can be used by parents to learn more about schooling and parenting. The guide also presents sample records of 55 documents in the ERIC database. The cited resources are particularly relevant to parents' concerns about meeting children's basic needs,…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Centers
Peer reviewedAllison, Brian – Art Education, 1996
Provides an overview and introduction to some of the most useful databases for art education and research. Notes that much art education research uses dissertations and theses. Discusses the content and use of several U.S., Australian, and British databases. (MJP)
Descriptors: Art Education, Bibliographic Databases, Computer Uses in Education, Databases
Peer reviewedCrawford, Walt – Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1992
Provides several examples of drawbacks encountered when technological improvements are applied to the public access of library databases. Suggests that technological advances all carry some trade-off and that they should be employed cautiously. (NRP)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Evaluation
