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Havener, W. Michael – Online, 1990
Describes an experiment that compared the performance of online and print tools in answering two types of ready reference questions: conceptual questions (requests for citations) and factual questions. The results show that online tools perform best for conceptual questions, but simple factual questions can be answered more quickly using print…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis, Efficiency, Online Searching