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Publication Date: 1981-Sep
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The IRL Life Sciences Collection and BIOSIS: A Comparison of Online Access to the Literature of Biology.
Watkins, Steven G.
Database, v4 n3 p39-59 Sep 1981
Describes a study evaluating the effectiveness of the Information Retrieval, Ltd. (IRL) Life Sciences Collection database in a field where BioSciences Information Service (BIOSIS) claims to offer comprehensive coverage of the international literature. The two databases are described, and the depth of controlled indexing is compared for the two
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Models, Search Strategies
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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