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Peer reviewedSievert, MaryEllen; Verbeck, Alison – Online Review, 1987
A comparison of ERIC and LISA (Library and Information Science Abstracts) indexing of the three journals--Online, Online Review, and Database--revealed some differences but more similarities in number of terms per article and concepts per article. A vocabulary which distinguished the field of online searching did emerge. (Author/EM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Databases, Indexing, Online Searching
Peer reviewedDunn, Ronald G. – Online Review, 1983
Discusses strengths of abstracting and indexing services (subject coverage, resolution of language problems, systematic indexing) and summarizes sources, countries of origin, languages, total coverage, and indexing of four scientific and technical services--Biosis, Engineering Information, Inspec, Chemical Abstracts Service. Characteristics of…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Indexes
Peer reviewedKonings, C. A. G. – Online Review, 1985
This comparison of bibliographies/online databases regarding their classification schemes, periodicals list, coverage of articles, indexing, and overlap reveals that only five bibliographies cover whole of subject area, and differences exist between number of periodicals scanned (73 to 2,771) and percentage of articles included from six…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Computer Science
Peer reviewedde Jong-Hofman, M. W. – Online Review, 1981
In order to compare effects of input processing on information retrieval in three databases, 25 articles from a specific journal were examined. Tables and Venn diagrams show retrieval results from different manual and computer searches. The relation between document surrogates and subject matter of the documents is discussed. (SW)
Descriptors: Abstracting, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Indexing
Peer reviewedDubois, C. P. R. – Online Review, 1987
Presents the advantages and disadvantages of free text and controlled vocabulary retrieval techniques and a methodology to assist in deciding on the optimal technique for a particular purpose. The relevance of the techniques for expert systems and full text contexts is also discussed and recommendations for further research are made. (Author/EM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Expert Systems, Indexing, Online Searching
Peer reviewedChu, Clara M.; Ajiferuke, Isola – Online Review, 1989
Presents a method for measuring the quality of controlled vocabularies that involves identifying clusters of documents, searching for each document, identifying terms used to index each document, and calculating certain measures to determine indexing quality. The results of a comparison of three library and information science databases using this…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Indexing
