Toward Cost-Effective Procedures in On-Line Bibliographic Searches
J. S. Kidd · College & Research Libraries · 1977
With clues provided from descriptions of courses offered by five professors at the Cranfield Institute of Technology, on-line searches of a variety of machine-readable bibliographic files were performed.When the end-product was a "packet" of highly selected, full-text documents, the service was only coolly received.When the endproduct was a moderately selective, reformatted bibliography, the response was very positive.Possible economic and ethical implications are considered.