Author : Barbara Allan
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 20,12 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Author : Allen Kent
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,54 MB
Release : 1997-09-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780824720612
The Biological Literature to An Uncertainty Principle for Information Seeking: A Qualitative Approach
Author : William Steere
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 25,84 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 1468422359
A fiftieth birthday is a good one to celebrate-old enough to be ex perienced and mature, but not so old as to be an antique. And if the fifty years have spanned as much change in scientific affairs as has occurred during the lifetime of Biological Abstracts it is surely time for a stocktaking. The leaders of biology in 1926 simply could not have imagined the condi tions of 1976. And few biologists active in 1976 can imagine what 1926 was like. That was before the explosive growth of federal funds for research and development, before the huge swelling of graduate enrollments and degrees, before World War II, even before the Great Depression! A few old-timers can remember 1926, and Bill Steere will forgive me for calling him an old-timer. After all, he provides the evidence himself; as a graduate student he met the first editor when Biological Abstracts was only three years old, and he has known all its later editors and administra tive officers. What he does not say is that tn length of service to BIOSIS, in seniority, he stands among only a few past and present members of the board of trustees; nor does he mention that at least as frequently as any other biologist he has been called upon to serve on governmental and associational councils and committees dealing with policy and strategy concerning the abstracting, classification, and dissemination of scientific knowledge. Surely he was the right choice to write this history.
Author : American Institutes for Research
Publisher :
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Abstracting
ISBN :
Guidelines for text reduction were developed and evaluated to advance the art of manually preparing informative abstracts. The study was intended to: (1) develop guidelines that result in abstracts which provide maximal support to abstract-users, and (2) develop these guidelines so that they result in reliable, i.e., consistent, abstracts of scientific/technical material. The abstracting procedure, and Abstracting Form and associated instructions, produces reasonably consistent abstracts. An expert judge rated 13 subsections of six technical papers prepared by three different abstracters as 88% consistent, i.e., contained identical information. The abstracts prepared were a substantial reduction of the original text. Considering the six abstracts used in a performance test (judged as containing the most information, but not necessarily the longest) mean percentage reductions obtained were: 47% reduction of words, 28% reduction of figures, and 27% reduction of equations. Level of performance, as measured by accuracy on use-tests, supported by abstracts was equivalent to that supported by original text, regardless of test time restriction. However, total test time required was less using abstracts than with full text. (Author).
Author : Barry Strickland-Hodge
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 26,7 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Updated edition (1st ed., 1986) of a manual that aids the improvement of searching techniques in the most widely used indexing and abstracting services in the medical sciences, by highlighting the most effective ways of searching the sources, pointing out potential problems and how to overcome them. A companion volume to How to Use Biological Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, and Index Chemicus. For students, medical librarians, researchers, and practicing medical personnel. Comb-binding. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Elisabeth B. Davis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 1995-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0313078092
Works cited in this useful survey are appropriate for students, librarians, and amateur and professional botanists. These encompass the plant kingdom in all its divisions and aspects, except those of agriculture, horticulture, and gardening. The majority of the annotations are for currently available in-print or electronic reference works. A comprehensive author/title and a separate subject index make locating specific entries simple. With materials ranging from those selected for the informed layperson to those for the specialist, this new edition reflects the momentous transition from print to electronic information resources. It is an appropriate purchase for public, college, university, and professional libraries.
Author : Gillian A. Burrington
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 2014-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1483160149
How to Find Out About The Social Sciences indicates the sources of information in the social sciences that are traditionally taught in social science faculties in universities. The book delineates the scope and nature of the different social sciences, explains the necessary education and training, and lists possible careers for those who take up the studies. The book also lists the possible sources of information such as organizations, libraries, books and other published material, and social administration. Lastly, it explains the significance of the different sources of information, what kind of information could be derived from them, and how they can be used to learn or teach in the social sciences. The text is for social scientists, professors, and researchers on the discipline and its many branches. It is also recommended for undergraduate and graduate students alike, as well as those who have taken a casual interest on the social sciences.
Author : Lorraine Nadelman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 29,48 MB
Release : 2003-10-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1135640874
This unique hands-on lab manual in child development provides great ideas and resources for teaching research courses involving child subjects. It includes projects in psychomotor/perceptual, cognitive, and social development. Projects are preceded by background essays on the history of that topic, related research, theoretical issues, and controversies. Each project has hypotheses to test, detailed procedures to follow, all stimuli, individual and group data sheets, empty tables, suggested statistics, discussion questions, and an updated bibliography. Special features of this second edition: *The introductory text portion details research considerations, including an introduction to psychological research, sections on developmental research, children as subjects, and general experimental research procedures. *The popular Infant Observation project has the student visit homes with babies for a semester and provides practice in observational data collection, reliability assessment, and report writing. *The cognitive development section includes two new subfields: Theory of Mind and Language--Children's Interpretation of the Word Big, in addition to classic studies of Piaget's spatial perspective-taking and attention and memory. The final chapter describes a suggested neuropsychological project. *The socialized child section includes a new study on sibling relationships as seen by the older or younger sibling, in addition to the earlier projects on self-esteem, sex identity, and cooperation-competition. The final section describes a suggested cross-cultural interview project.
Author : Yasar Ahmet Tonta
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Automatic indexing
ISBN :
Compares the performance of LCSH and PRECIS for the books published in 1987 in the field of library and information science in order to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of each system.
Author : E. D. Dym
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 18,5 MB
Release : 1985-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780824773540
Your choice for a text n document analysis is no longer limited to books containing only one specific method. This workbook of Readings-representing an introductory. state of the art approach to document analysis-combines a full range of subject analysis techniques into a comprehensive, single source volume.
