Comparison of Selecting, Abstracting, and Indexing by COMPENDEX, INSPEC, and PASCAL and the Impact of This on Manual and Automated Retrieval of Information.

de Jong-Hofman, M. W.

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ERIC Number: EJ244290

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Publication Date: 1981-Feb

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Comparison of Selecting, Abstracting, and Indexing by COMPENDEX, INSPEC, and PASCAL and the Impact of This on Manual and Automated Retrieval of Information.

de Jong-Hofman, M. W.

Online Review, v5 n1 p25-36 Feb 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, Information Processing, Information Retrieval, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Tables (Data)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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