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Sweetland, James H.

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ERIC Number: EJ513812

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1995

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ISSN: ISSN-0002-6530

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Sweetland, James H.

Microform Review, v24 n3 p133-37 Sum 1995

Discusses the amount of time necessary to access, read, and annotate articles in bound journals and on 35-mm microfilm. Journal articles require an average time of 5.12 minutes to retrieve and read from bound volumes versus 6.17 minutes from microfilm. Abstracts from "Dissertation Abstracts" require an average of 1.9 minutes from bound volumes versus 4.93 minutes from microfilm. (Author)

Descriptors: Abstracts, Access to Information, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations, Efficiency, Information Retrieval, Microfilm, Periodicals, Printed Materials, Users (Information)

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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