Bibliographic Searching : Now Within Your Reac h Barbara Lawrenc e American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautic s Technical Information Servic e New York, New Yor k Bibliographic searching . What an unfriendly name for the everyday task of findin g published articles that contain the information you want . This article is an overview of the use of computers to search bibliographic databases ; these are databases tha t refer to publications, but do not contain text or data . They identify and describe th e publication through index terms, keywords, citations and, usually, abstracts . Bibliographic searching is the retrieving of information from these databases wit h great flexibility- -by subject, by author, by journal name, or by any of a number o f "handles . " Online computer information retrieval became commercially available less than 1 5 years ago . It enhanced the power, ease and flexibility of searching, and broadene d access . People could now search many more databases than were available in thei r library . Computer retrieval systems have improved steadily, but intermediaries generally hav e been required to conduct a search . In the last few years there have been
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Bibliographic searching: now within your reach
Lawrence, Barbara
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