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Direct linkSutton, Anthea; O'Keefe, Hannah; Johnson, Eugenie Evelynne; Marshall, Christopher – Research Synthesis Methods, 2023
The Systematic Review Toolbox aims provide a web-based catalogue of tools that support various tasks within the systematic review and wider evidence synthesis process. Identifying publications surrounding specific systematic review tools is currently challenging, leading to a high screening burden for few eligible records. We aimed to develop a…
Descriptors: Search Strategies, Automation, Evidence, Synthesis
Peer reviewedRada, Roy; And Others – Journal of Documentation, 1991
Describes a study funded by the Commission of the European Community that applied document retrieval algorithms to the "Excerpta Medica" database using the EMTREE thesaurus. Nonhierarchical relations were added to enrich the thesaurus, and document ranking is discussed in terms of the conceptual distance between the documents and the…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Databases, Documentation, Foreign Countries
PDF pending restorationHoman, J. Michael; Yokote, Gail – 1985
This course syllabus for a continuing education course for health science librarians introduces the MEDLARS system, the MEDLINE database, and the Index Medicus. Designed to enable health science librarians to discriminate between the capabilities of manual searching and online retrieval, an overview is given of the nature and scope of MEDLINE and…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Databases, Indexing, Medical Libraries
Lussky, Joan – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2003
Explores to what extent the germ theory, when it was still a relatively new idea, is evident in the bibliographic records in the "Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office of the United States Army" (Index Cat), the largest medical bibliographical tool ever published. Data suggest that scientists are quick to apply the new…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Catalogs
Peer reviewedHickey, Thomas B.; Noreault, Terry – Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1992
Report on a peer-reviewed, interactive electronic journal focuses on stages of its development; features of two available access points--an ASCII interface called EPS (Electronic Publishing Service) and a graphical interface called Guidon; advantages of Guidon access over simple electronic file transfer; and planned improvements. (Contains five…
Descriptors: Computer Software Development, Electronic Journals, Electronic Publishing, Evaluation
