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Retrieval effectiveness of surname‐title‐word searches for known items by Academic Library users

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  • Frederick G. Kilgour
  • Barbara B. Moran
  • John R. Barden

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This article reports the findings of an experiment using a simulated title page, author surnames, and title words, one‐third of which were selected by each of the three authors, to determine the frequency of one‐screen displays when used to search for known items in an implied boolean retrieval system. Searches comprising surname plus one significant title word produced one‐screen displays 78% of the time; surname plus two words 97% of the time; and surname plus three words 98.5%. Three‐quarters of the significant words were nouns.

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  • Frederick G. Kilgour & Barbara B. Moran & John R. Barden, 1999. "Retrieval effectiveness of surname‐title‐word searches for known items by Academic Library users," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 50(3), pages 265-270.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:50:y:1999:i:3:p:265-270
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(1999)50:33.0.CO;2-R
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