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Purpose – The aim of this study is to analyse the disciplinary coverage of Thomson Reuters' Book Citation Index database focusing on publisher presence, impact and specialisation. Design/methodology/approach – The authors conducted a descriptive study in which they examined coverage by...
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databases. The study was designed to address the following questions: what is the nature of searcher preferences for Web versus … non‐Web interfaces to online databases and, more specifically, what are the characteristics of Web and non‐Web based … interfaces that help or hinder effective searching? Two samples of students enrolled in a graduate level Advanced Databases …
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analysis. This paper gives a comparative evaluation of data sources, i.e. online databases, databases on CD‐ROM and Internet … environmental chemicals: DADB‐Metadatabase of Online Databases, DACD‐Metadatabase of CD‐ROMs, DAIN‐Metadatabase of Internet … information depth is higher in commercial online databases and databases on CD‐ROM than in free Internet resources. Exceptions, e …
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be used for value‐added processing of bibliographic databases with scientific and technological information to predict … processing bibliographic databases by specific search fields, such as: number of documents by the publication year, number of …
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The Internet has become a favoured medium for the presentation and exchange of environmental and chemical data. To search for relevant information, the user either has to know the direct address of the Internet site, or has to use search engines and meta information repositories. In the latter...
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(Arabic/Latin) catalogues. Reviews earlier published work on multiscript bibliographic databases before focusing on controlled …
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CORC is an OCLC project that is developing tools and systems to enable libraries to provide enhanced access to Internet resources. By adapting and extending library techniques and procedures, we are developing a self‐supporting system capable of describing a large and useful subset of the Web....
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To date, librarians have not produced a study comparing databases that are appropriate for political science research …. This study compares the coverage, content, and retrieval methods for nine databases. The study uses sampling to evaluate …
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When the CrossFire databases were released in 1994, chemical information became available in electronic form of a …
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Discusses the changing relationships between information professionals – vendors, database producers, searchers – and end‐users, during the last three decades. Most of the time, the industry was quite vague as to who exactly the end‐users were, and consequently several different...
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