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Direct linkEast, John W. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2007
This paper examines the problems involved in subject retrieval from full-text databases of secondary materials in the humanities. Ten such databases were studied and their search functionality evaluated, focusing on factors such as Boolean operators, document surrogates, limiting by subject area, proximity operators, phrase searching, wildcards,…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Search Strategies, Humanities, Bibliographic Databases
