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Publication Date: 1990
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Searching the Humanities: Subject Overlap and Search Vocabulary.
Walker, Geraldene
Database, v13 n5 p37-46 Oct 1990
Discusses databases available for online searching in the humanities fields and describes searches that investigated scatter (i.e., the spread of subject terms across the databases), overlap among online files in terms of retrieved records, and the comparative effectiveness of natural language versus controlled vocabulary for information retrieval. (34 references) (LRW)
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Language: English
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