Women's Issues Searching with DIALOG OnDisc ERIC: Natural Language and Controlled Vocabulary Strategies.

Nicholls, Paul; Holtmann, Susanne

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ERIC Number: EJ456138

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Publication Date: 1989

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Women's Issues Searching with DIALOG OnDisc ERIC: Natural Language and Controlled Vocabulary Strategies.

Nicholls, Paul; Holtmann, Susanne

Laserdisk Professional, v2 n3 p97-103 May 1989

Compares free text versus controlled vocabulary searching for information relating to women's issues on the ERIC laserdisk database from Dialog. Topics discussed include terminology and women's studies; Boolean operators; and adequacy of the ERIC thesaurus for searching relevant topics including women's social roles, antiabortion movement, teenage pregnancy, and occupational sex segregation. (25 references) (LRW)

Descriptors: Abortions, Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis, Females, Feminism, Occupational Segregation, Online Searching, Optical Disks, Pregnancy, Search Strategies, Subject Index Terms, Thesauri, Womens Studies

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Language: English

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