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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"subject access"”.
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Redundancy and uniqueness of subject access points in online catalogs
… extent the classification number, title, and subject heading fields in catalog records overlap each other in providing subject access points (SAPs), to determine the unique SAPs existing in these fields, and to explore the relationship of the three subject-rich fields and four Dewey Decimal …
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Collection-Level Subject Access in Aggregations of Digital Collections: Metadata Application and Use
Problems in subject access to information organization systems have been under investigation for a long time. Focusing on item-level information discovery and access, researchers have identified a range of subject access problems, including quality and application of metadata, as well as the …
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Coincidence of user vocabulary and Library of Congress subject headings: Experiments to improve subject access in academic library online catalogs
… increase the match success rate between user subject vocabulary and Library of Congress subject headings. Random samples of user subject terms from Northwestern University Library's NOTIS/LUIS online catalog were collected from transaction logs during the 1986/87 academic year. The user terms …
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The effect of preweaning infantile food deprivation on hoarding in adult rats
… trials. A hoarding trial involves allowing the subject access to the hoarding material by means of an alleyway attached to its home cage. Ss then have an allotted amount of time (e.g., 30 min., 24 hrs.) in which to transport the hoarding material to their home cages. To insure hoarding will take …
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Comparing Library of Congress subject headings to keyword searches involving LGBT topics: a pilot study
Subject access to homosexuality and other LGBT or otherwise queer topics has a complicated history. Because language used for concepts can change depending on who you ask, controlling this vocabulary is a difficult task, though an admirable one. The aim of this study is to provide a sample of …
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Art information use and needs of non-specialists: evidence in art museum visitor studies
… is needed to support the organization of and access to basic art information content, and the vocabularies which frame this content, for the use of general audiences, whether they are using gallery-based or online information resources. The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the …
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A Comparison of Descriptive Tagging Practices by Library, Archive, and Museum Professionals Using an Inter-Indexing Consistency Approach
… was better quality control in the application of subject access points among information professionals across the library, archive, and museum environments.</p>
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Subject searching behaviour at the library catalogue and at the shelves: evaluating the impact of an online public access catalogue
… to evaluate the impact of an online catalogue on subject searching behaviour. A combined methodology was devised using a talk-aloud technique, observation, and screen logging facility to elicit both verbal and non-verbal data from users in their searching activity at the manual bibliographic …
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User perceptions of information quality in world wide web information retrieval behaviour
… intrinsic; representational; contextual; and accessibility IQ. Through the detailed analysis of the driving theory behind these, and other associated models of: (I) user IT acceptance; (2) Information Seeking Behaviour (ISB}; and (3) multi–dimensional characteristics of IQ; the researcher has …
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An Evaluation of Structured Navigation for Subject Searching in Online Catalogues
Understanding and improving subject searching in online library catalogues is the focus of this study. Against the backdrop of current research and developments in online catalogues an analysis of the problems and prospects for subject access in the expanding online catalogue is presented. …
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Entertainics
Entertainics is a web-based software application used to gather information about DVD players from several web-sites on the internet. The purpose of this software is to help users search for DVD players in a faster and easier way, by avoiding the navigation on every web-site that contains this …
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Entertainics
Entertainics is a web-based software application used to gather information about DVD players from several web-sites on the internet. The purpose of this software is to help users search for DVD players in a faster and easier way, by avoiding the navigation on every web-site that contains this …