A Technique for the Evaluation of a Commercial Information Service and Some Preliminary Results from the Drugdoc Service of the Excerpta Medica Foundation.

Scott, E. J.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1971

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A Technique for the Evaluation of a Commercial Information Service and Some Preliminary Results from the Drugdoc Service of the Excerpta Medica Foundation

Scott, E. J.; And Others

Information Storage and Retrieval, 7, 4, 149-165, Nov 71

The results showed that the selection criteria laid down by Drugdoc are strictly adhered to; the mean time of alerting of an article is 11.3 weeks after receipt of the journal, and all articles from a particular journal issue are reported by Drugdoc on average within 13.6 weeks. (3 references) (Author/MM)

Descriptors: Evaluation, Indexing, Information Services, Relevance (Information Retrieval)

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