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Peer reviewedCherry, Joan M. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1992
An analysis of 100 online public access catalog (OPAC) search sessions explored the effectiveness of converting unsuccessful subject searches to keyword searches. It is suggested that either a system generated message to the user to try a keyword search, or an automatic conversion of zero-hit searches might be effective in improving search…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Retrieval, Keywords
