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Mackesy, Eileen M. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1982
Reviews the development of secondary information services in the arts and humanities, discusses the services currently provided and the usage levels for those services, outlines some of the problems associated with online databases in the humanities, and considers some probable future developments. A 5-item reference list is included. (JL)
Descriptors: Databases, Humanities, Indexes, Indexing
Falk, Joyce Duncan – 1991
State of the art access to the literature of women's history is reviewed in this paper, including the issues of publication, bibliographic control, indexing services, and electronic databases. The problems of intellectual access to women's history in online databases are discussed in terms of: (1) characteristics of the subject itself; (2)…
Descriptors: Databases, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Information Sources
Findlay, Margaret A., Comp. – 1982
This manual describes the contents, purpose, and use of the Australian Education Index Database (AEII), which is produced by the Library and Information Services Unit of the Australian Council for Educational Research to provide access to Australian generated information both in published and unpublished forms. An overview of AEII is followed by…
Descriptors: Databases, Educational Resources, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Fabiano, Emily – 1979
Developed to orient the information seeker to the computerized literature search process, this guide provides background information that will help the user facilitate the search interview and the formation of a search topic, enabling him or her to focus on personal search needs and not on the fundamentals of online searching. Major purposes for…
Descriptors: Databases, Guides, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Lavender, G. B.; Findlay, Margaret A. – 1984
This core thesaurus of terms suitable for indexing Australian educational literature was developed by the Australian Council for Educational Research by means of a systematic and thorough revision of the "Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors." Based on the actual terminology of education in Australia, this thesaurus includes: key words and…
Descriptors: Education, Foreign Countries, Indexing, Information Retrieval
MacCall, Steven L.; Cleveland, Ana D. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1999
Presents a metric for comparing the performance of common classes of Internet information retrieval tools, including human indexed catalogs of Web resources and automatically indexed databases of Web pages. The benefit of the proposed metric is that it is relevance-based, and it facilitates the comparison of the performance of different classes of…
Descriptors: Automation, Comparative Analysis, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Machovec, George S. – Online Libraries and Microcomputers, 1997
Reviews the electronic journals and online services marketplace. Discusses fees; types of materials that are accessible; search engines and compatibility with Web browsers; information currency; types and number of sources available and numbers; archives; indexing, abstracting and full text titles; electronic delivery; technological development;…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Archives, Costs, Document Delivery