NAME AUTHORITY FILES AND HUMANITIES DATABASE SEARCHING
Amanda Spink
(University of North Texas, School of Library and Information Sciences, Denton, TX 76203–3796, USA)
Maurice Leatherbury
(University of North Texas, School of Library and Information Sciences, Denton, TX 76203–3796, USA)
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Abstract
Individual name searching has been identified as a problem for users when searching online and CDROM databases, particularly humanities databases. This paper reports results of a study which suggests that name authority files have the potential to improve retrieval during individual name searching.
Citation
Spink, A. and Leatherbury, M. (1994), "NAME AUTHORITY FILES AND HUMANITIES DATABASE SEARCHING", Online and CD-Rom Review, Vol. 18 No. 3, pp. 143-148. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb024487
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1994, MCB UP Limited