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ON THE INVERSE RELATIONSHIP OF RECALL AND PRECISION
CYRIL W. CLEVERDONIt is now ten years since some slight experimental evidence was presented which appeared to support the hypothesis that there was an inverse relationship between recall and…
TOWARDS A UNIVERSAL SEARCH FORMULATION LANGUAGE FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
A.J. HARLEY, M. LE MINOR, A. WEILIt is not with any Utopian optimism that we propose a universal search formulation language. Nevertheless, a serious problem exists, and we hope to give some impetus to the forces…
SOME GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SPECIAL LIBRARIES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE UK
K. BHATTACHARYYASpecial libraries in science and technology constitute a vital link in the process of information transfer. A study of how special libraries in the UK are functioning at present…
MEASURING READERS' FAILURE AT THE SHELF IN THREE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
JOHN A. URQUHART, J.L. SCHOFIELDThis paper continues the reporting of the Unit's work on a method of investigating how often readers fail to find what they are looking for on the shelves, why they fail, and what…
ARE OBSOLESCENCE AND SCATTERING RELATED?
MICHAEL K. BUCKLANDConsiderable attention has been paid, in this journal and elsewhere, to each of two aspects of the use of literature. One of these is the relative decrease in use of material as…
COMPUTER TYPESETTING AND INFORMATION
DAVID MARTINComputer typesetting is—or should by now be regarded as—an everyday technique which links the electronic digital computer and tape‐driven composing machines into a system which…
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