Failure analysis of subject searches in a test of a new design for subject access to online catalogs

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 519-537

  Drabenstott, Karen M ^a   Weller, Marjorie S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES; LIBRARIES; QUERY LANGUAGES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; USER INTERFACES;

BROWSING; ONLINE CATALOGS; SEARCH TREES; SUBJECT ACCESS DESIGN; SUBJECT SEARCHING;

ONLINE SEARCHING;

EID: 0030195539     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199607)47:7<519::AID-ASI5>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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