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A THEORY FOR PRACTICAL EDUCATION IN LIBRARIANSHIP
RONALD STAVELEYFollowing in the bibliographical wake of a research student, I was reminded recently how lacking in novelty are most of our attitudes to professional education. Contexts and…
A STATISTICAL INTERPRETATION OF TERM SPECIFICITY AND ITS APPLICATION IN RETRIEVAL
KAREN SPARCK JONESThe exhaustivity of document descriptions and the specificity of index terms are usually regarded as independent. It is suggested that specificity should be interpreted…
COMPARATIVE EFFICIENCY OF SEARCHING TITLES, ABSTRACTS, AND INDEX TERMS IN A FREE‐TEXT DATA BASE
F.H. BARKER, D.C. VEAL, B.K. WYATTThe choice of a suitable data base for providing an information service is governed by factors of coverage, performance, and cost. The cost of the data base to subscribers is a…
SOME PROBLEMS OF THE INDEXING OF SPECIALIST MATERIAL DRAWN FROM SEVERAL DISCIPLINARY SYSTEMS
C.D. GREENSome problems arising in the combination of discipline‐oriented retrieval systems for the purpose of constructing a specialized retrieval system for a multidisciplinary topic are…
TOWARDS AUTOMATIC PROFILE CONSTRUCTION
F.H. BARKER, D.C. VEAL, B.K. WYATTThis paper describes part of the Chemical Abstracts Condensate Evaluation (CAC Evaluation) carried out by the United Kingdom Chemical Information Service (UKCIS).
The literature of librarianship and documentation: the periodicals and their bibliographical control
HERBERT COBLANSSomewhat paradoxically workers in information are just as typically human as in any other profession in the matter of order in their own backyard. To put it mildly, the situation…
INDEXING—PERMUTED, ROTATED, OR CYCLED
D.A. KEMP, I.S. SIMPSON, T.D. WILSONThere is some confusion in the literature with regard to the use of the terms ‘permuted’, ‘rotated’, ‘cycled’.
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