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Download full textSmith, Gary R. – 1990
To identify the procedures for selecting documents for inclusion in the Resources in Education (RIE) portion of the ERIC database, the directors of each of the ERIC system's 16 clearinghouses were contacted and asked the following questions: What is the acceptance rate of unsolicited manuscripts submitted to your clearinghouse for possible…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Bibliographic Databases, Competence, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedHoubeck, Robert L., Jr. – Journal of Library Administration, 1992
Describes a study of conservative and liberal journals that was conducted to determine whether academic libraries have been developing balanced collections in these areas. Issues of censorship and bias in collection development are discussed; and the influence of abstracting/indexing availability and journal age on selection are considered. (12…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Academic Libraries, Bias, Censorship
Peer reviewedMehta, Usha; Goodman, Beth – Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, 1997
Describes the InfoTrac SearchBank based on experiences at the University of Nevada, Reno, libraries where the service is available through the online catalog. Highlights include remote access through the Internet; indexing and abstracting; full-text access to 460 journal titles; a powerful search engine; and business-oriented databases.…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Academic Libraries, Electronic Journals, Full Text Databases
Duncan, Elizabeth B., Ed.; McAleese, Ray, Ed. – 1981
Presented at a symposium instigated to improve the accessibility and usefulness of educational technology, the five invited papers presented in this proceedings deal with various aspects of information systems and their relationship to each other. Topics covered were "Educational Technologists as Consumers of Educational Information", "Information…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Citation Indexes, Diagrams, Educational Technology
Musana, A., Ed.; And Others – 1988
These reports and papers from a training course which brought together information services professionals from Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, the Sudan, Ethiopia, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Botswana, and Swaziland address the following topics: (1) information systems analysis; (2) the state of the art in bibliographic control in Eastern and…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Administration, Budgeting, Cataloging
Online Libraries and Microcomputers, 1998
The International Coalition of Library Consortia statement on provision of electronic information addresses current problems, needs for the future, and preferred practices in the emerging electronic-information environment. Specific topics include increasing expectations, budgets, fair use, archiving, the scholarly communications system, pricing,…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Consortia
