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Publication Date: 1993
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A Profile of End-User Searching Behavior by Humanities Scholars: The Getty Online Searching Report Project No. 2.
Siegfried, Susan; And Others
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v44 n5 p273-91 Jun 1993
Reports on searching behavior of humanities scholars who were given unlimited, subsidized access to DIALOG databases. How much searching the scholars did, the kinds of techniques and DIALOG features they used, and their learning curves are analyzed. Search features studied included commands, Boolean logic, types of vocabulary, and proximity operators. (46 references) (KRN)
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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