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Electronic Journals And Changes In Scholarly Article Seeking And Reading Patterns, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King, Sheri Edwards, Lei Wu

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

By tracking the information-seeking and reading patterns of science, technology, medical and social science faculty members from 1977 to the present, this paper seeks to examine how faculty members locate, obtain, read, and use scholarly articles and how this has changed with the widespread availability of electronic journals and journal alternatives.

Viewing And Reading Behaviour In A Virtual Environment: The Full-Text Download And What Can Be Read Into It, David Nicholas, Paul Huntington, Hamid R. Jamali, Ian Rowlands, Tom Dobrowolski, Carol Tenopir

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This article aims to focus on usage data in respect to full-text downloads of journal articles, which is considered an important usage (satisfaction) metric by librarians and publishers. The purpose is to evaluate the evidence regarding full-text viewing by pooling together data on the full-text viewing of tens of thousands of users studied as part of a number of investigations of e-journal databases conducted during the Virtual Scholar research programme.

Vendors And Search Engines, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

AT FIRST IT SEEMED INEVITABLE that free search engines would compete with fee-based online services. Now they work together.

Is Google The Competition?, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

LIBRARIANS, PUBLISHERS, and aggregators alike often call Google their main competitor. Google, or similar web search engines, is the information finding tool of first choice for many users--far ahead of proprietary online services or libraries and light years ahead of print sources.

The 2004 annual meeting of NFAIS (National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services) asked who would win the "battle for mindshare" in the year 2010. Will libraries, A&I (abstracting and indexing) services, and traditional publishers still exist, or will Google become the only information resource?

What’S New With Umi?, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Discusses the status of UMI in November 1996. The history of UMI; UMI's launching of the ProQuest Direct online service; UMI's acquisition of DataTimes in September 1996; UMI's production of CD-ROM; UMI's PowerPages systems; How UMI provides full-text service; UMI's collaboration with the H.W. Wilson Company; Opinions on the future of indexing; The future of UMI.

Connect Time Variations, Carol Tenopir

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Thee is little standardization in online rates, and database vendors continue to change pricing to balance concerns of users, producers and vendors. Some services have replaced connect-time pricing with information-based pricing.

The Emotions Of Searching, Carol Tenopir

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Discusses research by the author and Diane Nahl (University of Hawaii) on how novice end users interact with CD-ROM, online public access catalogs (OPAC) and online systems. Measuring affective responses; Affective questions; How the librarian provides reassurance through answering the questions; Additional reading.

Full-Text Retrieval: Systems And Files, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Much of the development in the first 30 years of library automation has been in solving the problem of identifying relevant sources. Automation of the library's card catalog provides a finding tool for the library's collections. The books, journals, films, and other materials located through the catalog still mostly reside in their original form, with no direct connection to the automated finding tool.

Most of the early development in electronic publishing was also aimed solely at identifying information sources. Secondary publishers, notably publishers of indexing/abstracting serials, were the first to provide their resources in electronic form. Throughout the 1970s and …

Full Text Searching On Major Supermarket Systems: Dialog, Nexis, And Datastar., Carol Tenopir, Sharon Berglund

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The largest online vendors of full-text sources to general libraries, DIALOG, Data-Star and NEXIS, are described and compared. DIALOG offers the largest number of full-text sources and the best set-building search techniques, but does not offer automatic searching of inconsistent text such as plurals or spelling equivalencies as do the others. Data-Star has the strongest European focus and information on chemistry, pharmacy and medicine. NEXIS has the most user-friendly search language and superior display features and the greatest number of unique titles.

Searching With Menus, Carol Tenopir

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BRS, DIALOG and OCLC's EPIC are three major online systems that provide menu searching in addition to their command interfaces. The menus used by these three systems are described.

The Most Popular Databases, Carol Tenopir

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Notes the proliferation of online databases in the last two decades and suggests publications which can help librarians to make decisions about choosing a database. Discussion of information in the book "Directory of Online Databases," by Carlos Cuadra and "Computer-Readable Databases: A Directory and Data Sourcebook," with a preface by Martha E. Williams; Mention of the most popular databases, including MEDLINE, NEXIS, ERIC, World Patents, Predicasts files, Chemical Abstracts (CA) File, CA Search, and Financial Information Service; Discussion of databases most used by academic, corporate, and law libraries; View that popular databases are sought after because they have been in …

Wilson Branches Out, Carol Tenopir

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This article reports that by March or April 1991, all of the H. W. Wilson Company databases will become available on the Bibliographic Retrieval Service (BRS) online system. After seven years of exclusivity on WILSONLINE, the Wilson databases are branching out and BRS is only the first extension. Starting in 1986, Wilson offered ways to access electronic versions of its indexes. Many libraries have purchased selected Wilson indexes on CD-ROM to emphasize end-user searching. BRS implementation of the Wilson files is planned in stages throughout 1991. Stage 1 will bring up Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, Applied Science & Technology …

Value-Added Searching, Carol Tenopir

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This article discusses the importance of adding value to information products and services for library database searching. It describes something added by human intellectual effort to the basic bibliographic or textual information found in the records. Database searchers can use the value-added information to refine or improve their search. A type of value that is added to database searching is editing and analyzing what the searchers do with the search results before presenting it to the user. The positive points are obvious for professional searchers, but value-added information present trade-offs to the database producer and to the searcher. Most of …

Database Searching On A Budget, Carol Tenopir

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There are many low-cost alternatives for libraries that do not have the resources for database searching. One alternative is for the library to use the so-called after hours services that offer lower hourly rates.

Searching Full‑Text Databases, Carol Tenopir

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Provides information on full-text databases and how to use them. Commercial online systems that offer a number of full-text databases and that are used in U.S. libraries including Lexis and Nexis, BRS, DIALOG and STN International; Types of full-text databases; Search strategy and uses.

Online Education: Planning For The Future, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Discusses the future of library school education, particularly with regards to online searching and databases.

Online Searching With A Microcomputer: Downloading Issues, Carol Tenopir

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Downloading the results from online searching onto a microcomputer disk is one of the major benefits of online database searching using a microcomputer. Surveys show that downloaded citations are being used in a variety of ways including: editing and merging citations from several searches creating inhouse databases, or preparing edited results for resale.

Although it has not been tested in court these uses may violate copyright law under the compilation, derivative works, or original work provisions. In addition, many database producers include prohibitions against downloading in the terms and conditions of your contract with the database vendor. Other publishers have …

Online Searching In The Popular Literature, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Comments on issues relevant to the use of online searching tools and technology in popular literature. Online database searching challenges; Overview of articles that indicate the insufficiency of online tools.

Newspapers Online, Carol Tenopir

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Focuses on online database services providing access to daily newspapers that can be used by libraries. Access to newspapers provided by indexing services National Newspaper Index and Newspaper Index; Access to full text information for libraries; Working of Vu/Text Information Service's full text system.

End User Search Services: A Comparison, Carol Tenopir

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There are now several time sharing search systems available to the home computer user. These systems provide to home subscribers access to online information, news stories, bibliographic databases, and many other services. Because some of the systems require start-up fees or charge monthly minimums and because the specific characteristics and offerings vary, it makes sense to examine each system and make choices among them.

The five services I will describe and compare are:

1. KNOWLEDGE INDEX, DIALOG Information Services, Inc.

2. BRS/AFTER DARK, BRS

3. THE SOURCE, Source Telecomputing Corporation

4. COMPUSERVE

5. DELPHI, General Videotex Corporation

Evaluation Of Library Retrieval Software, Carol Tenopir

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Many libraries in the near future will be considering purchase of software packages for online retrieval systems. Many of the librarians responsible for the selection of a package will have little experience in the development of software. Guidelines for software evaluation by a librarian with a limited automation background are given.