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Use of Machine-Readable Databases to Support a Large SDI Service.
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Hawkins, Donald T. – Information Processing and Management, 1985
Current awareness services at AT&T Bell Laboratories are described: bulletins announcing over 80,000 externally published items/year; production of four commercial machine-readable databases and camera-ready bulletin copy by Bell Laboratories Publication, Alerting, and Retrieval System (BELLPAR); photocopy service. Improvements in service are…
Descriptors: Charts, Classification, Computer Oriented Programs, Databases
Information Delivery: Identifying Priorities, Performance, and Value.
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Broadbent, Marianne; Lofgren, Hans – Information Processing and Management, 1993
Discussion of the value of library-based information services focuses on two evaluation techniques that help identify benefits of information services to organization managers: priority and performance evaluation and cost-benefit analysis applied to current awareness services. Examples from Australian information centers are included. (Contains 43…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Information Centers
Automatic Construction of Information Queries.
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Grzelak, Hanna; Kowalski, Kazimierz – Information Processing and Management, 1983
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.…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Information Needs, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking
Exploitation Characteristics of the INSPEC Data Base in the SDI System at the Technical University of Wroclaw.
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Kowalski, Kazimierz; Zgrzywa, Aleksander – Information Processing and Management, 1982
Results of investigation of exploitation costs of INSPEC database in selective dissemination of information service are presented. Parameters which influence exploitation costs--time spent looking for information, information query length, number of answers, time spent modifying user's query, and amount of modification--are analyzed. Six…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Databases