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Peer reviewedRush, J. E.; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1971
The abstracts obtained so far are of sufficiently good quality to indicate that large-scale testing of the methods of the automatic abstracting system is warranted. (Author/MM)
Descriptors: Abstracting, Automatic Indexing, Automation, Content Analysis
Keen, E. Michael – UNESCO Bulletin for Libraries, 1976
Five abstracts journals and one indexing service in the field of library and information science were compared for the efficacy of their subject retrieval performance. (Author)
Descriptors: Abstracting, Indexes, Indexing, Information Retrieval
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
Simon, Hans-Reiner – 1986
Designed to provide students of information science with an introduction to British librarian Samuel Clement Bradford's 1934 findings about the scattering of information, this reader on Bradford's Law begins by discussing its use in calculating search procedures in printed bibliographies as well as in databases. The following additional materials…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographies, Bibliometrics
Gilchrist, Alan, Ed. – 1997
This set of papers offers insights into some of the major developments in the field of classification and knowledge organization, and highlights many of the fundamental changes in views and theories which have taken place during the last 40 years. This document begins with a series of reminiscences from former delegates of the first International…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Access to Information, Cataloging, Classification
