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THE THESAUROFACET: A MULTIPURPOSE RETRIEVAL LANGUAGE TOOL
JEAN AITCHISONA description is given of the English Electric ‘Thesaurofacet’, a faceted classification and thesaurus covering engineering and related scientific, technical, and management…
THE COMPLEXITY OF THE MODELLING OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
J. MARTYN, B.C. VICKERYAn information system is the result of a hierarchy of decisions—Who are the system users? What are their information needs? What formal services will be offered to them? Through…
HUMAN v. MACHINE SELECTION FOR CURRENT AWARENESS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY
R.H. SEARLEHuman selection of periodical references from the full text, for inclusion in the Mass Spectrometry Bulletin, is compared with the retrieval from the same source material by the…
ACCESS AND RECOGNITION: FROM USERS' DATA TO CATALOGUE ENTRIES
RENATA TAGLIACOZZO, LAWRENCE ROSENBERG, MANFRED KOCHENPatterns of searching in library catalogues were analysed, using the data from a large survey of the use of three university library and one public library catalogues…
THE DAINTON EVIDENCE
G. WOLEDGESome of the documentary evidence before the Dainton Committee was published as appendixes to their report. Some of it has been published elsewhere, and is no doubt omitted from…
A SIMPLE METHOD FOR CODING GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS IN A POST‐COORDINATE INDEX
KEVIN P. JONESPlace names are a problem in co‐ordinate indexing, in that they exist in very large numbers, whilst individual names may be used only infrequently. To counteract this inflow of…
Training for Information Science
J. FARRADANEEducation in information Science is now well established a a postgraduate level in Great Britain, and has recently also been started to a graduate level. The scope of the subject…
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