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Direct linkHuapu Liu – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This two-part dissertation centers on a re-examination of the role of book indexes in information retrieval research on full-text digital book collections in digital libraries. Early research focused on information retrieval and book indexes (in addition to other parts of books) in the 2000s when the Google Books corpus was first released to the…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Indexes, Reference Materials, Semantics
Delgado, Jorge Enrique – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Background. This project was motivated by the impressive growth that scholarly/scientific journals in Latin America have shown in recent decades. That advance is attributed to global, regional, and national pressures and trends, as well as a response to obstacles that scholars/researchers from the region face to be published in prestigious…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Directories, International Organizations, Periodicals
Dixon, J. E. G. – Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing Bulletin, 1978
The application of computer techniques to the making of concordances and indexes has brought about many innovations including the KWIC format and the exhaustive concordance. Although claims for the merits of these concordances are not always justified, the KWIC method offers the following advantages: (1) the detection of formulaic expressions and…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Citation Indexes, Computational Linguistics, Coordinate Indexes
Download full textBury, Richard L., Comp. – 1970
Presented in this thesaurus are keywords and cross references for the indexing and retrieval of outdoor recreation literature. It was compiled to facilitate the development of a common language for outdoor recreation planning, programming, research, and resource management. Terms selected are pertinent to both the natural and physical resources,…
Descriptors: Indexes, Permuted Indexes, Recreation, Reference Materials
1971
This index to science fiction magazines includes all United States and British periodicals published from 1966 to 1970, and is a companion to the "Index to Science Fiction Magazines, 1951-1956." The entries are triple-listed by magazines, titles, and authors. A checklist of the magazines indexed contains the month and year, volume and…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Books, Catalogs, Citation Indexes
Educational Broadcasting, 1973
A cumulative index is presented to Educational Broadcasting readers who may need to refer to previously published technical papers. Articles are listed by author and subject from Volume 1, Number 1 (February/March 1968) through Volume 6, Number 6 (November/December 1973). (Author)
Descriptors: Broadcast Television, Coordinate Indexes, Educational Technology, Indexes
Peer reviewedGould, Angela M. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1974
A study of the importance to the user of various characteristics in the printed subject indexes to abstract journals and published literature and the user's preference for the different formats available. (Author)
Descriptors: Coordinate Indexes, Indexes, Indexing, Opinions
Mitchell, Charity – 1977
The purpose of this supplement to the fourth edition of the "Speech Index" is to provide access to speeches made by famous people and to speeches published in anthologies between 1971 and 1975. The supplement indexes 33 titles, of which four were published before 1970. A list of books from which speeches were collected indicates the coverage of…
Descriptors: Indexes, Reference Materials, Speeches
Peer reviewedBauer, Harry C. – RQ, 1978
This review of Denys Parsons'"Directory of Tunes and Musical Themes" describes its simple but effective method of identifying musical compositions. Comparisons are made with other prominent musical reference works, particularly those of Harold Barlow and Sam Morgenstern. (JD)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Indexes, Music, Reference Materials
Scott, Ralph L. – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1971
Keypunching errors, disarranged entries, and useless keywords are some of the major shortcomings of the Dissertation Abstracts International Retrospective Index." (1 reference) (MM)
Descriptors: Indexes, Reference Materials, Subject Index Terms
Asleson, Robert F. – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1971
University Microfilms' criterion for a good index is whether one is quickly referred by the keywords to those subjects in which he has an interest, not whether there are superfluous noise" words. (Author/MM)
Descriptors: Indexes, Reference Materials, Subject Index Terms
Peer reviewedBerman, Joan – Reference Services Review, 1988
Briefly discusses and presents a cumulative title index to all reviews of reference serials that appeared in this column from volume 2 through volume 16, and selected items reviewed in other columns in this journal from volume 7 through volume 16. (MES)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Indexes, Reference Materials, Serials
PDF pending restorationWilburn, Marion T.; Knapper, Christopher K. – 1981
The kinds of material presently being collected on Canadian higher education, their accessibility, and main problem of bibliographic control were surveyed in 1981. Canadian higher education materials involved material on or about higher education (particularly Canadian higher education) that was (1) produced by institutions, organizations,…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cataloging, Citation Indexes, Educational Research
Eichman, Thomas Lee – 1979
An adaptation of Heilprin's model of the path of propagation of human messages is used to explore the truism that more experienced academic researchers tend to go directly to the published literature, while less experienced researchers may rely more on such secondary sources as indexes and other library reference and bibliographic services. The…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Citation Indexes, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis
Peer reviewedPope, Michael – RQ, 1975
Recommends the use of a single list of subject headings for all the Wilson periodical indexes. (PF)
Descriptors: Indexes, Periodicals, Reference Materials, Subject Index Terms
