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Publication Date: 1981-Aug
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Why Engineers Don't Use Databases: Indexing Techniques Fail to Fit the Needs of the Profession.
Breton, Ernest J.
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, v7 n6 p20-23 Aug 1981
Proposes indexing technical information by function and attribute instead of indexing by subject to increase retrieval efficiency. Reasons for the lack of accurate and comprehensive technical product information in databases and the need for an improvement in reference services are discussed. (RBF)
Descriptors: Abstracts, Databases, Engineers, Indexes, Indexing, Information Retrieval, User Satisfaction (Information)
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