Comparative Efficiency of Searching Titles, Abstracts, and Index Terms in a Free-Text Data Base.

And Others; Barker, F. H.

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ERIC Number: EJ056433

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Publication Date: 1972

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Comparative Efficiency of Searching Titles, Abstracts, and Index Terms in a Free-Text Data Base

And Others; Barker, F. H.

Journal of Documentation, 28, 1, 22-36, Mar 72

An investigation was made into the relative performance of the four major Chemical Abstracts Service magnetic tape data-bases. The overall retrieval efficiency of profiles searched against data-bases containing titles only, titles-plus-keywords, and titles-plus-digests, was calculated and these results are presented. (5 references) (Author/NH)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Databases, Information Retrieval, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Search Strategies

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