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Direct User Access to the Biological Literature Through Abstracts: A Cooperative Experiment in Customized Service
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This article is published in BioScience.The article was published on 1966-09-01. It has received 7 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Service level objective & Service level requirement.read more
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Problems in the use of electronic data processing in biological collections
TL;DR: Problems in the use of electronic data processing (EDP) in biological collections are explored and its use in making the overall decision as to whether or not EDP should be used in a particular situation is explained.
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The Functions of Abstracts in the Initial Screening of Technical Documents by the User.
TL;DR: There does not appear to be any evidence to support the assumption that abstracts, accompanying a document, have any significant effect.
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Breaking the communication barrier between searcher and literature file: An interactive guide
TL;DR: Developed under CPS and now implemented under CICS, the program claims no novelty of structure or technique, but constitutes an innovation in application and goal with primary emphasis on accommodating the behavior of a user not previously knowledgeable about the structure, indexing language, and detailed content of a machine based references file.
Study and Comparison of the Indexing of the "Bibliography of Agriculture" in Relation to the Indexing of 15 Other Secondary Services.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a set of metrics for the performance of a large-scale system, including the number of users that need to be served by the system and the size of the system.
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An analytical survey of virology literature reported in two announcement journals
TL;DR: The scope and coverage of virology literature by BIOSIS was reviewed in the study which was based on manual and computer‐supported identification of more than 2300 virology papers announced in Biological Abstracts and its sister publication over a five‐month period.
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The Information Needs of Current Scientific Research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the needs of the research scientists and do not limit themselves to those for which library work is immediately relevant; in fact, a good part of this paper will call attention to the importance of those aspects of scientific communication that take place outside libraries and indeed, outside literature.
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A user's assessment of current awareness services
TL;DR: Before one looks at services intended to make one aware of current progress in science, one should look briefly at the structure of science and at how, and why, information is generated.
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Information use studies part 1—past results and future needs
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define an efficient system as one that ensures that all information likely to influence the program of a research worker or research team is made available to them at the right time and in the most convenient form.