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- The Public-Access Computer Systems Review
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- Volume 3, Number 1 (1992) ISSN 1048-6542
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- CONTENTS
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- REFEREED ARTICLES
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- Analysis of Search Failures in Document Retrieval Systems: A
- Review
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- By Yasar Tonta (pp. 4-53)
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- To read this file: select tonta.n1
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- 1.0 Introduction
- 2.0 Overview of a Document Retrieval System
- 3.0 Search Failure Analysis
- 3.1 Measures of Retrieval Effectiveness
- 3.2 Methods of Analyzing Search Failures
- 3.2.1 Analysis of Search Failures Utilizing Retrieval
- Effectiveness Measures
- 3.2.2 Analysis of Search Failures Utilizing User
- Satisfaction Measures
- 3.2.3 Analysis of Search Failures Utilizing Transaction
- Logs
- 3.2.4 Analysis of Search Failures Utilizing the Critical
- Incident Technique
- 3.3 Summary
- 4.0 Review of Studies Analyzing Search Failures
- 4.1 Studies Utilizing Precision and Recall Measures
- 4.1.1 The Cranfield Studies
- 4.1.2 Lancaster's MEDLARS Studies
- 4.1.3 Blair and Maron's Full-Text Retrieval System Study
- 4.1.4 Markey and Demeyer's Dewey Decimal Classification
- Online Project
- 4.2 Studies Utilizing User Satisfaction Measures
- 4.3 Studies Utilizing Transaction Logs
- 4.4 Studies Utilizing the Critical Incident Technique
- 4.5 Other Search Failure Studies
- 4.6 Related Studies
- 5.0 Conclusion
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- COLUMNS
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- Public-Access Provocations: An Informal Column
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- Those Who Don't, Won't
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- By Walt Crawford (pp. 54-56)
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- To read this file: select crawford.n1
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- REVIEWS
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- Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide to the
- Internet
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- Reviewed by Billy Barron (pp. 57-59)
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- To read this file: select barron.n1
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- The Development of a Graphical User Interface for The Online
- Journal of Current Clinical Trials
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- By Thomas B. Hickey and Terry Noreault (pp. 4-12)
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- To read this file: select hickey.n2
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- Electronic Publishing on Networks: A Selective Bibliography of
- Recent Works
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- By Charles W. Bailey, Jr. (pp. 13-20)
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- To read this file: select bailey.n2
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- COLUMNS
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- Recursive Reviews
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- Artificial Intelligence, Libraries, and Information
- Retrieval
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- By Martin Halbert (pp. 21-28)
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- To read this file: select halbert.n2
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- REVIEWS
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- Library Resources on the Internet: Strategies for Selection and
- Use
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- Reviewed by Caroline R. Arms (pp. 29-34)
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- To read this file: select arms.n2
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- The Public-Access Computer Systems Review
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- Editor-in-Chief
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- Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
- University Libraries
- University of Houston
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- Associate Editors
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- Columns: Leslie Pearse, OCLC
- Communications: Dana Rooks, University of Houston
- Reviews: Roy Tennant, University of California, Berkeley
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- Editorial Board
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- Ralph Alberico, University of Texas, Austin
- George H. Brett II, University of North Carolina
- General Administration
- Steve Cisler, Apple
- Walt Crawford, Research Libraries Group
- Lorcan Dempsey, University of Bath
- Nancy Evans, Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz
- Charles Hildreth, READ Ltd.
- Ronald Larsen, University of Maryland
- Clifford Lynch, Division of Library Automation,
- University of California
- David R. McDonald, Tufts University
- R. Bruce Miller, University of California, San Diego
- Paul Evan Peters, Coalition for Networked Information
- Mike Ridley, University of Waterloo
- Peggy Seiden, Pennsylvania State University, New Kensington
- Peter Stone, University of Sussex
- John E. Ulmschneider, North Carolina State University
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- Publication Information
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- Published on an irregular basis by the University Libraries,
- University of Houston. Technical support is provided by the
- Information Technology Division, University of Houston.
- Circulation: 4,130 subscribers in 45 countries (PACS-L) and 314
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