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Council for Cultural Cooperation, Strasbourg (France). – 1991
At the reported meeting, the Group was informed of the increasing interest from Eastern and Central Europe in the work of the Council of Europe. There was a report of the study visit to EUDISED (European Documentation and Information System for Education) agencies in Vienna and The Hague by representatives from the national agencies of…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Database Producers, Databases, Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewedBlanken, R. R.; Stern, B. T. – Information Processing and Management, 1975
Includes a report on a use study of the Excerpta Medica system. (PF)
Descriptors: Databases, Information Systems, Medicine, Online Systems
Williams, B. J. S. – 1976
The micrographics terms used by the National Reprographic Centre for documentation (NRCd) to index material which appears in the Reprographics Quarterly and other NCRd information system components are compiled in this thesaurus. The terms are not defined, except to note the meanings of some terms in the context of the NRCd system. Directions for…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Retrieval, Information Systems, Microforms
Peer reviewedField, B. J. – Journal of Documentation, 1974
The development of the INSPEC vocabulary system which comprises a unified indexing and classification scheme is described together with the reasons for its adoption. (Author)
Descriptors: Classification, Databases, Documentation, Indexing
Peer reviewedWall, Eugene – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1975
Describes the utility and applications of information retrieval thesauri and the development of the thesaurus for the DISCLOSURE data base. (PF)
Descriptors: Costs, Databases, Development, Information Retrieval
Newmark, Laura Christopher – 1981
This study discusses the problems of conceptual and bibliographic access to the literature of the social sciences. The study is intended to assist both professionals and students who are conducting social science research. Part I examines conceptual access and search strategies. It traces the flow of social science information from original…
Descriptors: Databases, Indexes, Information Retrieval, Information Systems
Wall, E.; Barnes, J. – 1969
This is the fifth in a series of eight reports of a research study for the National Agricultural Library (NAL) on the effective utilization of bibliographic data bases in machine readable form. NAL desires ultimately to develop techniques of interacting with other data bases so that queries put to NAL may be answered with documents or document…
Descriptors: Automation, Citations (References), Databases, Indexing
Ely, Donald P.; Minor, Barbara B. – Educational Broadcasting International, 1979
Describes the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) system, its products and services with special emphasis on the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources. Three scenarios of search requests applicable to needs of developing nations are included. (JEG)
Descriptors: Databases, Developing Nations, Education, Information Retrieval
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). Dept. of Documentation, Libraries, and Archives. – 1985
Intended for use by the Computerized Documentation System (CDS), the Unesco version of ISIS (Integrated Set of Information Systems)--originally developed by the International Labour Organization--was developed in 1975 and named CDS/ISIS. This system has a comprehensive collection of programs for input, management, and output, running in batch or…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Data Processing, Databases, Developed Nations
Download full textCohen, Karen C.; Klensin, John C. – 1980
This paper describes an innovative information system known as PROCEED (Program for Continuing Engineering Education) which is being developed to assist engineers in coping with mid-career crisis. Research involving components of mid-career crisis indicates that obsolescence or fear of obsolescence is a primary factor. It seemed reasonable that a…
Descriptors: Databases, Engineering Education, Information Retrieval, Information Science
Simmons, Robert M. – 1975
A concise explanation is provided of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) and its major components: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). ERIC's publications are explained, and instructions are given for conducting a topic search through the ERIC system, from locating the correct terms in…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Databases, Education, Guides
Brandhorst, Ted, Ed. – 1992
This document describes the major organizational components of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) system, the interactions between those components, and the major products and services provided by those components. (WTB)
Descriptors: Abstracting, Cataloging, Databases, Documentation
Brandhorst, Ted, Ed.; And Others – 1992
This Glossary contains an alphabetic list of some 291 terms used in the ERIC Processing Manual (EPM) or in connection with the generation of the ERIC database and the work of the ERIC Clearinghouses and other ERIC contractors. Each term is defined as it is used in the ERIC context. Appended to the Glossary is a list of 203 commonly-appearing…
Descriptors: Abbreviations, Databases, Definitions, Documentation
Brandhorst, Ted, Ed.; And Others – 1980
This loose-leaf manual provides the detailed rules, guidelines, and examples to be used by the components of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Network in acquiring and selecting documents and in processing them (i.e., cataloging, indexing, abstracting) for input to the ERIC computer system and subsequent announcement in…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Cataloging, Databases, Documentation
Vance, David; Heller, Jack – 1971
The logical structure of the data bank is described from the user's point of view, without reference to machine implementation. The length of files, records, segments, and fields are variable and unlimited; duplication factors are unlimited; sequence of files, records within file, and segments within record are random. All data are subject to…
Descriptors: Classification, Content Analysis, Data Processing, Databases
