Online Review: Volume 7 Issue 6

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Knowledge Industry, ASIS team up to produce database user service. Knowledge Industry Publications Inc., and the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) have joined forces…

Study of strategies used in online searching: 4. Acronyms — the missing element in your search?

J.J. Schröder

When a term can be represented by an acronym, searches using both controlled terms and free text terms do not always retrieve all relevant items. It is necessary to add the…

Hedge trimming and the resurrection of the controlled vocabulary in online searching

MaryEllen Sievert, Bert R. Boyce

The traditional role of the controlled vocabulary has been to bring together items scattered by a multiplicity of natural language terms. Therefore, it was considered a recall…

Analytical methods for online searching

Peter J. Vigil

Analytical methods are presented to facilitate the comparison of multiple sets during an online search. The basic concept is the utilization of discrete displays of unique…