In order to determine whether the expertise of professionals in the field of psychiatry and law could be enhanced by the use of current awareness databases in addition to traditional online sources, the first of two papers in this document examines online searches on topics of interest to professionals in the psychiatry/law specialty. The use of…

A selective dissemination of information service based on computer scanning of Nuclear Science Abstracts tapes has operated at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, England since October, 1968. The performance of the mechanized SDI service has been compared with that of the pre-existing current awareness service which is based on…

The Aerospace Materials Information Center (AMIC) Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) program was evaluated by an interview technique after one year of operation. The data base for the SDI consists of the periodic document index records input to the AMIC system. The users are 63 engineers, scientists, and technical administrators at the…

Describes the kinds of online sources to use and processes involved in finding information on emerging markets and new industry trends. Highlights include relevance ranking in DIALOG searches; press releases; news sources; news alert services; market research reports; tracking research in progress; company information; and tracking subsidiaries.…

The performance, economics and acceptability to users of the INSPEC SDI system were investigated in this study. The effect that provision of an SDI service might have on the information-use habits of users was also studied. The sample group of users consisted of 600 individuals of whom 540 were drawn equally from: universities and colleges,…

Volume II of this five volume investigation of the INSPEC SDI system contains discussions of the following topics: (1) Composition of user and control groups and the information use habits of users and controls, (2) thesaurus development and document indexing, (3) problems of printing notification cards and assessing numbers required for each…

The third volume of this five volume study of the INSPEC SDI system contains: Recall performance of SDI profiles; Assessment of the Recall performance of the SDI system in relation to particularly valuable articles; Subjective assessment of the SDI system Recall performance; Relation between Precision performance of the system and document…

Volume IV of this five volume study of the INSPEC SDI system consists of the following appendices to the study: A proposal to investigate the selective dissemination of information; Covering letter to questionnaire; Questionnaire: survey of information use; Chasing letter; Letter of invitation to participate; Chasing letter; Statement of…

The appendices included in Volume V of this five volume study of the INSPEC SDI system are a continuation of those in Volume IV and consist of: Communications with users etc.; Specimen sheets from descriptor file; Time on profile modification and analysis, and user assessment; Profiles compiled by compilers 1, 2, and 3; Proposed comparison of…

In April 1971 the Aslib Research and Development Department began a study on selective dissemination from MARC tapes. The aim of the project was to explore the technical and economic feasibility of providing selective notifications of current books, by extraction from MARC tapes, to specialized libraries. Typical of the potential customers…

Since February 1971 the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, has been running the ERIC data base mainly for SDI purposes. The implementation of the data base into the generalized search system, ABACUS, is described. One hundred and fifty-eight users received SDI service at present, 99 from governmental and educational institutions, 23 from…

The purpose of this guide is to give an up-to-date presentation of the information service offered by the documentation center at the Royal Institute of Technology (RIT) and to facilitate the utilization of the service. The guide gives a general account of the multidisciplinary computerized current awareness service (SDI) and a detailed…

Describes a system for identifying and retrieving relevant citations on a monthly basis which can be accomplished with any microcomputer and printer possessing capability of telecommunication and downloading. Procedures for comprehensive search, downloading, formatting of information for printing, printing file cards and abstracts, and…

Describes and evaluates a learning model for information filtering and selective dissemination of information which is an adaptation of the generalized probabilistic model of information retrieval. The model is based on the concept of uncertainty sampling that allows for relevance feedback both on relevant and nonrelevant documents. (Author/LRW)

Presents methods of information query building in selective dissemination of information systems based on user's publications and examines possible compatibility between user's information queries and his publications. Methods of information query construction determined by logical operators AND, OR, NOT and set of weighted keywords are described.…