Abstract:The symposium papers which follow are an outgrowth of a previous paper1 by the author in which the duplication of efforts in the area of physicochemical property data handling was pointed out, and the need for cooperative efforts was stressed.The need for cooperative efforts is even more strongly indicated by some recent work by the author and Steven Hildrich (unpublished work) in which a random sample of 145 abstracts of journal articles in Chemical Abstracts was checked for duplicate processing in several ot… Show more
“…Begun in April, 1970(Flanagan, 1973Larson, Bernard, & Padin, 1976;Wood, Flanagan, & Kennedy, 1972a, 1972b, this study was originally designed to be executed in five phases:…”
Section: Initial Research Period and Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Comparing printed or online records is still not easily done. The key problem of nonstandard citations described earlier (Doszkocs, 1977;Flanagan, 1973;Wood et al, 1972aWood et al, , 1973) is still present in spite of the vast increases in computer speed and storage capacity. It is hoped that citation record standards in conjunction with other communication standards will provide a sufficient platform to allow ready comparison of citation databases.…”
Section: Cornpurison Of Sf and To Using Mdsmentioning
“…Begun in April, 1970(Flanagan, 1973Larson, Bernard, & Padin, 1976;Wood, Flanagan, & Kennedy, 1972a, 1972b, this study was originally designed to be executed in five phases:…”
Section: Initial Research Period and Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Comparing printed or online records is still not easily done. The key problem of nonstandard citations described earlier (Doszkocs, 1977;Flanagan, 1973;Wood et al, 1972aWood et al, , 1973) is still present in spite of the vast increases in computer speed and storage capacity. It is hoped that citation record standards in conjunction with other communication standards will provide a sufficient platform to allow ready comparison of citation databases.…”
Section: Cornpurison Of Sf and To Using Mdsmentioning
Summary
This study has attempted to compare the performances of the Iowa Drug Information Service (IDIS) and MEDLINE with respect to their ability to provide relevant information in response to specific requests for information received by Drug Information Centres. Measures of precision and relative recall have been calculated for both systems. The availability of the references retrieved, the suitability of the entry vocabulary, ease of use of the services, relative cost factors and timeliness of the services are discussed. The reasons for the failure of one system to retrieve references found by the other was investigated and an attempt made to assess the importance of the factors involved.
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