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Conceptual Data Visualization in Archival Finding Aids: Preliminary User Responses
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Bahde, Anne – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2017
This paper explores possibilities for marrying data visualization to online archival finding aids, which have continually suffered from usability issues in their long history. This paper describes a project in which two different data visualization models were built to replace sections of an archival finding aid. Users were then shown the models,…
Descriptors: Visualization, Archives, Data, Usability
Inconsistencies between Academic E-Book Platforms: A Comparison of Metadata and Search Results
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Wiersma, Gabrielle; Tovstiadi, Esta – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2017
This article presents the results of a study of academic e-books that compared the metadata and search results from major academic e-book platforms. The authors collected data and performed a series of test searches designed to produce the same result regardless of platform. Testing, however, revealed metadata-related errors and significant…
Descriptors: Metadata, Search Strategies, Electronic Publishing, Accuracy
Comparative Recall and Precision of Simple and Expert Searches in Google Scholar and Eight Other Databases
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Walters, William H. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2011
This study evaluates the effectiveness of simple and expert searches in Google Scholar (GS), EconLit, GEOBASE, PAIS, POPLINE, PubMed, Social Sciences Citation Index, Social Sciences Full Text, and Sociological Abstracts. It assesses the recall and precision of 32 searches in the field of later-life migration: nine simple keyword searches and 23…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Web Sites, Navigation (Information Systems), Novices
Google Scholar Search Performance: Comparative Recall and Precision
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Walters, William H. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2009
This paper presents a comparative evaluation of Google Scholar and 11 other bibliographic databases (Academic Search Elite, AgeLine, ArticleFirst, EconLit, GEOBASE, MEDLINE, PAIS International, POPLINE, Social Sciences Abstracts, Social Sciences Citation Index, and SocINDEX), focusing on search performance within the multidisciplinary field of…
Descriptors: Search Strategies, Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis, Online Searching
Subject Retrieval from Full-Text Databases in the Humanities
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East, John W. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2007
This paper examines the problems involved in subject retrieval from full-text databases of secondary materials in the humanities. Ten such databases were studied and their search functionality evaluated, focusing on factors such as Boolean operators, document surrogates, limiting by subject area, proximity operators, phrase searching, wildcards,…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Search Strategies, Humanities, Bibliographic Databases
Issues Facing Academic Library Consortia and Perceptions of Members of the Illinois Digital Academic Library.
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Brooks, Sam; Dorst, Thomas J. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2002
Discusses the role of consortia in academic libraries, specifically the Illinois Digital Academic Library (IDAL), and describes a study conducted by the IDAL that investigated issues surrounding full text database research including stability of content, vendor communication, embargo periods, publisher concerns, quality of content, linking and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Consortia, Content Analysis, Electronic Libraries