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Publication Date: 1975
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Relative Effectiveness of Titles, Abstracts, and Subject Headings for Machine Retrieval from the COMPENDEX Services
Byrne, Jerry R.
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 26, 4, 223-9, Jul-Aug 75
Investigated the relative merits of searching on titles, subject headings, abstracts, free-language terms, and combinations of these elements. The combination of titles and abstracts came the closest to 100 percent retrieval. (Author/PF)
Descriptors: Abstracts, Databases, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Search Strategies, Subject Index Terms
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