This thesaurus was designed for users of the Adult and Continuing Education Research Collection in Syracuse University (New York), which contains the archives of organizations and individuals central to the development of adult education as a field of study and practice. The thesaurus serves the historical and archival adult education materials of…

This book lists 4,876 descriptors selected from the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors, 9th Edition, with their Japanese language equivalents. It was prepared by personnel of the Center for Educational Technology at Aichi University of Education, which, since 1978, in cooperation with Unesco's Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development…

As one aspect of its cooperation with UNESCO's Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID), and with the assistance of the Japan Council of Educational Technology Centers, the Center for Educational Technology, Aichi University of Education, has been preparing English language abstracts of educational technology research…

This thesaurus is designed to be a vocabulary for indexing and retrieving bibliographic material concerning any aspect of land use or resource planning. The scope of the vocabulary is interdisciplinary. Economics, geography, history, demography, and sociological terms are included as well as a large number of scientific, technical, and natural…

This thesaurus is a tool for indexing and retrieving documents and data in the field of education in an international context. Introductory materials include a description of the thesaurus and discussions of its relationship with other thesauri, the thesaurus as an international instrument, its coverage and structure, fields, facets, descriptors…

The multilingual EUDISED thesaurus is a documentary language specially conceived for the processing of information regarding education in Council of Europe member states. It is intended first for use by abstracting and indexing institutions, especially those which define the contents of documents for retrieval by computer. But it is also designed…

This thesaurus, developed by the National Information Center for Educational Media (NICEM), represents an expansion of the NICEM subject headings list, which is designed to provide access to a database of bibliographical records of nonprint, educational media. A preface discusses the issues that led to a revamping of the subject headings,…

This thesaurus contains listings of descriptors or terms used to index the literature in the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) documentation data base and to store and retrieve information about the literature for users of the service. Term selection is based largely on the vocabulary of the authors of the documents entering the…

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…

This report responds to the need for North American libraries to provide computer support for multiple subject lists or controlled vocabularies as they automate separate catalogs using specialized thesauri for certain subject areas, materials, and audiences in addition to their main library catalogs. The focus of the report is the integration of…

This controlled vocabulary comprising approximately 1,030 terms commonly used in the field of international development communication was created by the Clearinghouse on Development Communication of the Academy for Educational Development to analyze and index documents. This standard list of terms, designed to provide subject access to information…

Produced for UNESCO on the initiative of the Division of Communication Research and Planning, this thesaurus is a documentation language divised for the purpose of analyzing works, articles, reports, and other documents relating to the problems of mass communication according to the particular medium to which they refer: books, the press, records,…

Designed to provide improved subject access over other existing subject heading lists for literature related to the Chicano experience, the Thesaurus is an initial attempt to remedy the absence of a baseline vocabulary for use in indexing and retrieving relevant materials from various information systems. Most of the approximately 700 entries are…

This document comprises four reports related to the Midwest State Archives Guide Project. The first report, "Producing In-House Finding Aids and Administrative Reports: An Expanded Data Base Design," details an expanded SPINDEX database design that could be used to produce a variety of administrative reports. Specific examples are given…