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Peer reviewedHartley, James; And Others – Journal of Information Science, 1996
Structured abstracts containing several subheadings (background, aim, method, results, and conclusions) have replaced traditional abstracts in most medical journals. The results of 2 studies, the first of 52 readers using an electronic database and the second of 56 readers using a printed database, suggest that it is easier for readers to search…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Cognitive Processes, Databases, Electronic Text
Peer reviewedMichel, Dee Andy – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
Presents a taxonomy of 11 sources of information used during library and database searching based on observations of 49 searches in a variety of libraries and search situations. Three categories of sources are identified: those internal to the searcher, those created by the searcher, and those external to the searcher. (Contains 54 references.)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Databases
