Journal of Documentation: Volume 40 Issue 1

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UK MARC AND US/MARC: A BRIEF HISTORY AND COMPARISON

ANTHONY LONG

This paper traces the development of the US/MARC and UK MARC formats from their origins to the present day, showing some of the divergence between them and illustrating how…

INTERNATIONAL ACCESS TO BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA: MARC AND MARC‐RELATED ACTIVITIES

ALAN HOPKINSON

Formats for the exchange of bibliographic data use the ISO 2709 record structure which started out as the structure for the Library of Congress MARC format. The UNISIST Reference

FICTION RETRIEVAL: EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF A SEARCH SYSTEM BASED ON USERS' VALUE CRITERIA (PART 2)

ANNELISE MARK PEJTERSEN, JUTTA AUSTIN

These papers describe the development and evaluation of a new classification system for fiction based on an analysis of users' formulations of needs. Users of fiction generally do…

INTERACTIVE INFORMATION NETWORKS AND UK LIBRARIES

BRIAN VICKERY, RICHARD HESELTINE, CAROLYN BROWN

New technology continues to have a powerful influence on information provision. The use of mainframe computers for information processing, and online access to them via…

AUTOMATIC SEARCH TERM VARIANT GENERATION

K. SPARCK JONES, J.I. TAIT

The paper describes research designed to improve automatic pre‐coordinate term indexing by applying powerful general‐purpose language analysis techniques to identify term sources…

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ISSN:

0022-0418

Online date, start – end:

1945

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof David Bawden