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Abstract

Bibliographic searching usually involves finding documents which fulfil already specified search criteria, but Swanson has attempted to develop methods described as a systematic trial and error stzrategy, to find unknown causal scientific connections between already known phenomena, so-called undiscoverd public knowledge, or complementary but disjoint literatures. To this end he conducted 3 investigations in biomedicine. While specialist knowlegde is needed to find the literature linking the literature of problems with that of the solutions, Swanson hopes to make the method more automatic. Clinical trials seem to support his hypothesis

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Abstract

Examines how far automation cluster analysis and association testing are relevant methods for smaller libraries in construction of search thesauri. Using WORDSTAR, a simple form of cluster analysis was tested, with satisfactory results in that the index terms formed clusters of a suitable size. The association test was used to elicit from users' natural language terms which can be used in the search thesaurus as entrance vocabulary. The test showed that users associated very differently in relation to the same stimuli words, with low overlap with terms used in the system's indexing. The results confirmed the need for better feedback. Concludes that while neither method can be used alone, a search thesauri which combine terms from the indexes and from users can be a powerful tool

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Abstract

Comments on Statens Bibliotekstjeneste's 1993 report on subject data in research libraries. Despite the failure in the 70s to create a common classification system using notation, the report recommends just such a system but using verbal expressions. It assumes that subject indexing problems can be solved by reusing other libraries' key words and that user groups are homogeneous and able to use the systems thus leaving libraries as professionals intermediaries without responsibility. Uses the experiences of the author's library, the Environmental Library, which itself indexes all material, and gives 6 examples of how other institutions index the same publications differently, to show that the simple recycling system which the report recommends cannot be used there. Rather than spend recources on developing electronic catalogues, as the report recommends, funds should be used to help research libraries construct systems targeting their specific user group