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Rehman, Sajjadur – International Library Review, 1989
Discusses the feasibility of a network for library and information services in the Arab world and examines existing national library and information infrastructures in the context of the status of the national library; national bibliographic control; availability of union catalogs and indexing and abstracting services; interlibrary cooperation;…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Indexing
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Allen, Nancy S. – Library Trends, 1988
Describes the development and outcome of a cooperative computerization effort involving nine public and university museums. The discussion covers the project goals, data development and analysis, and contributions resulting form the project. Appendices provide the system data fields used and a comparison between automation of library and museum…
Descriptors: Automation, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Consortia
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Stein, Jonathan – Electronic Library, 1994
Compares LISA (Library and Information Science Abstracts) on SilverPlatter's CD-ROM with its replacement version, Bowker-Saur's LISA Plus. Features reviewed include entry to the databases; use of Boolean search facilities; indexes and browsing; displaying and printing records; subsidiary functions; on-screen help; and interfaces. (Contains eight…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis, Indexing, Information Retrieval
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Weibel, Stuart L. – Library Trends, 1995
Examines the influence of the World Wide Web on the dissemination of scholarly literature. Discusses display and indexing of structured text, problems with matching the needs of session-based document retrieval and the stateless architecture of the Web, and the relationship of existing bibliographic description standards to emerging standards for…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Indexing, Information Dissemination, Information Retrieval
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Houbeck, Robert L., Jr. – Journal of Library Administration, 1992
Describes a study of conservative and liberal journals that was conducted to determine whether academic libraries have been developing balanced collections in these areas. Issues of censorship and bias in collection development are discussed; and the influence of abstracting/indexing availability and journal age on selection are considered. (12…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Academic Libraries, Bias, Censorship
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Richards, Pamela Spence – Library Quarterly, 1992
Describes efforts to maintain scholarly and scientific collaboration in France during Germany's occupation (1940-44). The Subgroup for Library Protection, established by the Germans, is explained; the exchange of scientific journals between Germany and France is discussed; and two indexing services for scientific literature are described, one…
Descriptors: Cooperation, European History, Foreign Countries, Indexing
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Brumm, Eugenia K. – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 1991
This summary of the literature on document image processing from 1988-90 focuses on WORM (write once read many) technology and on rewritable (i.e., erasable) optical discs, and excludes CD-ROM. Highlights include vendors and products, standards, comparisons of storage media, software, legal issues, records management, indexing, and computer…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Computer Storage Devices
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Yee, Martha M. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1991
Discusses features of online public access catalogs: (1) demonstration of relationships between records; (2) provision of entry vocabularies; (3) arrangement of multiple entries on the screen; (4) provision of access points; (5) display of single records; and (6) division of catalogs into separate files or indexes. User studies and other research…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Computer Software, Computer System Design, Indexing
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Sieverts, Eric G.; And Others – Electronic Library, 1992
The fourth in a series of articles on the evaluation of microcomputer software for information storage and retrieval, conducted by the Netherlands Association of Users of Online Information Systems (VOGIN), presents test results for six indexing and full-text retrieval programs--Ask-It, KAware, Texplore, TextMaster, WordCruncher, and ZYindex. (13…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Computer Software Evaluation
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Gerhard, Kristin H.; And Others – College and Research Libraries, 1993
Discussion of the adequacy of indexing for interdisciplinary areas focuses on women's studies. A study that examined access to women's studies journals through standard indexes and abstracts is described, and results are reported which indicate that most journals are not sufficiently indexed and that there is a need for an online index. (six…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Access to Information, Higher Education, Indexes
O'Connor, Mary Ann – Document Image Automation, 1991
Discusses applications of optical technology, especially CD-ROMs, to information management needs. Information retrieval problems are discussed; design questions that concern the format of the data, indexing methods, and retrieval capabilities are presented; the need for updates is considered; access requirements are discussed; and the importance…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer System Design, Design Requirements, Indexing
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McKinin, Emma Jean; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1991
Describes a project that was designed to test the relative efficacy of index terms and full-text for the retrieval of documents in MEDLINE journals. Precision and relevance of citations retrieved from full-text databases versus bibliographic databases is discussed, and the addition of MEDLINE indexing to enhance full-text medical journals is…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis, Full Text Databases
Malone, Linda C.; And Others – Microcomputers for Information Management, 1990
Discussion of automated indexing techniques focuses on ways to statistically document improvements in the development of an automated keywording system over time. The system developed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to automate the storage, categorization, and retrieval of information from military exercises is explained, and performance measures are…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Automatic Indexing, Evaluation Methods, Graphs
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Rasmussen, Edie M. – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 1997
Focuses on access to digital image collections by means of manual and automatic indexing. Contains six sections: (1) Studies of Image Systems and their Use; (2) Approaches to Indexing Images; (3) Image Attributes; (4) Concept-Based Indexing; (5) Content-Based Indexing; and (6) Browsing in Image Retrieval. Contains 105 references. (AEF)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Indexes, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Kirriemuir, John; Brickley, Dan; Welsh, Susan; Knight, Jon; Hamilton, Martin – D-Lib Magazine, 1998
Describes characteristics of subject gateways on the Web (i.e., facilities allowing easier access to network-based resources in a defined subject area) and compares them to search engines (e.g., AltaVista). The application of WHOIS++, centroids, query routing, and forward knowledge to searching several gateways simultaneously is outlined, and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Comparative Analysis, Gateway Systems
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