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Constantinou, Constantia – College & Research Libraries, 1995
A study of 1264 incidents of journal mutilation at New York University indicates no relationship between the availability of indexing and abstracting services on CD-ROM databases and mutilation. Recommends posting warnings; raising awareness; providing adequate photocopiers, change, and vendor card machines; announcing closing time; encouraging…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Academic Libraries, Databases, Guidelines
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Salton, Gerard; Buckley, Christopher – Information Processing and Management, 1988
Summarizes the experimental evidence that indicates that text indexing systems based on the assignment of appropriately weighted single terms produce retrieval results superior to those obtained with more elaborate text representations, and provides baseline single term indexing models with which more elaborate content analysis procedures can be…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Information Retrieval
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Wise, Michael – Third World Libraries, 1994
Discusses problems in access to journals and conference proceedings published in Third World countries, including government roles, the lack of use of information networks due to costs, serials agents' roles, poor distribution and marketing, poor bibliographic control, postal service and telecommunications, language barriers, and lack of…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Access to Information, Cataloging, Costs
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Bethel, Kathleen E. – Reference Librarian, 1994
Explores how theories of Afrocentricity can affect the arrangement of knowledge and the dissemination of information in libraries. Various aspects of cataloging are discussed, including controlled vocabularies, computer applications, and classification schemes; historical collections are reviewed; and examples of problems with Library of Congress…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Studies, Cataloging, Change
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O'Kane, Kevin C. – Information Processing & Management, 1996
Describes an algorithm for computer generation of hierarchical indexes for document collections. The resulting index, when presented with a graphical interface, provides users with a view of a document collection that permits general browsing and informal search activities via an access method that requires no keyboard entry or prior knowledge of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Algorithms, Automatic Indexing, Computer Graphics
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Tibbo, Helen R. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
Humanists use a wide variety of textual, graphic, and aural materials in their research, each of which presents indexing challenges. Research into the nature of these materials and humanists' information-seeking behaviors indicate that indexing models from the sciences are not adequate. New controlled vocabulary and indexing frameworks are needed.…
Descriptors: Archives, Bibliographic Databases, Books, Cataloging
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Morris, A. – Information Processing and Management, 1991
This paper reviews the progress made so far in the development and use of expert systems for library and information services in the areas of online information retrieval, including gateway software and intelligent front-ends; cataloging, including bibliographic utilities and machine-aided cataloging; abstracting; reference work; and indexing and…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Bibliographic Utilities, Cataloging, Classification
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Shalini, R. – Information Processing and Management, 1993
Provides an overview of research on individual user differences and relevance in information retrieval. An experiment with a two-stage information retrieval system, using a topical set of document representations produced by a Boolean search and a citation profile is described. Implications for information retrieval are explored. (Contains 32…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Citation Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Indexing
Bergeron, Bryan P.; And Others – Collegiate Microcomputer, 1991
Discussion of the development of multimedia courseware for medical education focuses on repurposing or reusing data from multiple sources. Issues addressed include designing courseware with repurposing in mind; the format of the content and the intended microcomputer format; and content indexing for storage and retrieval. (18 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Courseware, Higher Education
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Fernandez-Manjon, Baltasar; Fernandez-Valmayor, Alfredo; Fernandez-Chamizo, Carmen – British Journal of Educational Technology, 1998
Describes Aran, a knowledge-based system designed to help users deal with problems related to Unix operation. Highlights include adaptation to the individual user; user modeling knowledge; stereotypes; content of the individual user model; instantiation, acquisition, and maintenance of the individual model; dynamic acquisition of objective and…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Expert Systems, Indexing
Sosteric, Mike – D-Lib Magazine, 1999
Discusses the technological advances attained by the International Consortium for Alternative Academic Publication (ACAAP) aimed at reforming the scholarly communication system and providing an alternative to high-priced commercial publishing. Describes the eXtended markup language, based on SGML and HTML, that provides indexing and…
Descriptors: Consortia, Cost Effectiveness, Electronic Publishing, Indexing
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Xu, Hong; Lancaster, F. W. – Library Resources & Technical Services, 1998
An analysis of 205 records in the OCLC Online Union Catalog (OLUC) found considerable duplication among subject access points provided by title, subject heading, and classification number fields. On average, only 4.12 unique access points were found per record. The results suggest that online catalogs might outperform card catalogs more in…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Indexing, Online Catalogs
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Marion, Linda S.; McCain, Katherine W. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
Explores the intellectual subject structure and research themes in software engineering through the identification and analysis of a core journal literature via two expert perspectives: the author, through cocitation analysis; and the indexer, through subject terms selected to facilitate retrieval. Topics include cluster analysis, multidimensional…
Descriptors: Authors, Citation Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Computer Software Development
Qin, Jian – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 2000
Presents abstracts of a session that discussed cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) on the World Wide Web. Topics include CLIR research in Chinese-English, German-English, and Japanese-English involving machine translation, semantic indexing, domain concepts, integrating new technologies, large-scale multilingual lexicons, and international…
Descriptors: Chinese, Dictionaries, English, German
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Cobb, Tom – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 1999
Examined how Omani college students studying English for Academic Purposes used concordance and database software to create their own dictionaries of words to learn. A control group used a word list and dictionary. The experimental method combined the benefits of list coverage with some of the benefits of lexical acquisition through natural…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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