Interdisciplinary Searching: Problems and Suggested Remedies. A Report from the ICSTI Group on Interdisciplinary Searching.

Weisgerber, David W.

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Publication Date: 1993

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Interdisciplinary Searching: Problems and Suggested Remedies. A Report from the ICSTI Group on Interdisciplinary Searching.

Weisgerber, David W.

Journal of Documentation, v49 n3 p231-54 Sep 1993

Explains the efforts of the ICSTI (International Council for Scientific and Technical Information) Group on Interdisciplinary Searching to identify and describe problems of interdisciplinary searching and to propose solutions. Problems are summarized in six areas: database coverage and technical content, bibliographic information, textual content, numeric data, file organization, and searching on multiple hosts. (EAM)

Descriptors: Databases, Global Approach, Indexing, Interdisciplinary Approach, Online Searching, Online Vendors, Problems, Questionnaires, Standards, Thesauri

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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