Online Database Coverage of Forensic Medicine.

Snow, Bonnie; Ifshin, Steven L.

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ERIC Number: EJ296991

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Publication Date: 1984

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Online Database Coverage of Forensic Medicine.

Snow, Bonnie; Ifshin, Steven L.

Online, v8 n2 p37-43 Mar 1984

Online seaches of sample topics in the area of forensic medicine were conducted in the following life science databases: Biosis Previews, Excerpta Medica, Medline, Scisearch, and Chemical Abstracts Search. Search outputs analyzed according to criteria of recall, uniqueness, overlap, and utility reveal the need for a cross-database approach to searching. (EJS)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Databases, Graphs, Information Retrieval, Medicine, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Research Methodology, Search Strategies, Subject Index Terms, Tables (Data)

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