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Mathematical Notation in Bibliographic Databases.
Pasterczyk, Catherine E. – Database, 1990
Discusses ways in which using mathematical symbols to search online bibliographic databases in scientific and technical areas can improve search results. The representations used for Greek letters, relations, binary operators, arrows, and miscellaneous special symbols in the MathSci, Inspec, Compendex, and Chemical Abstracts databases are…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Online Searching, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Scientific and Technical Information
Extracting Knowledge for Intermediary Expert Systems: The Selection of Search Keys. Final Report.
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Fidel, Raya – 1988
This study investigated online searching behavior manifested by 39 experienced professional searchers performing their regular, job-related searches in order to uncover the rules they use for the selection of search keys, and to represent these rules in a formal model that could be used in the construction of intermediary expert systems. The case…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Case Studies, Expert Systems, Models
The Yield of Bibliographic Databases.
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Kowalski, Kazimierz; Hackett, Timothy P. – Library and Information Science Research, 1992
Demonstrates a means for estimating the number of retrieved items using well-established selective dissemination of information (SDI) profiles in the SCI, INSPEC, ISMEC, CAS, and PASCAL databases. A correlation between individual database size and number of retrieved documents in technical fields is also examined. (17 references) (LAE)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Information Retrieval
The Wannabee Culture: Why No-One Does What They Used To.
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Dixon, Anne – Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, 1998
Electronic publishing has been an agent for change in not just how one publishes but in what one publishes. Describes HyperCite, a joint project with the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) to create INSPEC database. Highlights include the database; the research phase (cross database searching and new interface); and what and how much was…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Change, Computer Interfaces
The NASA ADS Abstract Service and the Distributed Astronomy Digital Library [and] Project Soup: Comparing Evaluations of Digital Collection Efforts [and] Cross-Organizational Access Management: A Digital Library Authentication and Authorization Architecture [and] BibRelEx: Exploring Bibliographic Databases by Visualization of Annotated Content-based Relations [and] Semantics-Sensitive Retrieval for Digital Picture Libraries [and] Encoded Archival Description: An Introduction and Overview.
Kurtz, Michael J.; Eichorn, Guenther; Accomazzi, Alberto; Grant, Carolyn S.; Demleitner, Markus; Murray, Stephen S.; Jones, Michael L. W.; Gay, Geri K.; Rieger, Robert H.; Millman, David; Bruggemann-Klein, Anne; Klein, Rolf; Landgraf, Britta; Wang, James Ze; Li, Jia; Chan, Desmond; Wiederhold, Gio; Pitti, Daniel V. – D-Lib Magazine, 1999
Includes six articles that discuss a digital library for astronomy; comparing evaluations of digital collection efforts; cross-organizational access management of Web-based resources; searching scientific bibliographic databases based on content-based relations between documents; semantics-sensitive retrieval for digital picture libraries; and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Astronomy, Bibliographic Databases