Document Familiarity, Relevance, and Bradford's Law: The Getty Online Searching Project Report No. 5.

Bates, Marcia J.

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ERIC Number: EJ536176

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Publication Date: 1996

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Document Familiarity, Relevance, and Bradford's Law: The Getty Online Searching Project Report No. 5.

Bates, Marcia J.

Information Processing & Management, v32 n6 p697-707 Nov 1996

This report on the Getty Online Searching Project, which studied the end-user searching behavior of 27 humanities scholars over a 2-year period, focuses on previous familiarity with retrieved documents. Topics include document familiarity and relevance; document familiarity and information retrieval; measuring retrieval success; and document familiarity and Bradford's Law. (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Familiarity, Humanities, Information Retrieval, Longitudinal Studies, Measurement Techniques, Online Searching, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Search Strategies

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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