Literature retrieval for interdisciplinary syntheses
Howard Dalby White · Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) · 1996
THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SUGGESTIONS for retrieval of bibliographic data: (1)by those interested in revealing interdisciplinarity, and (2) by those interested in being interdisciplinary.It is the latter who are most likely to produce interdisciplinary syntheses.Retrieval depends on bibliographic markers of various kinds, some of which divide disciplines.A major bibliographic indicator of interdisciplinarity is occurrence of the same marker on both sides of a disciplinary divide.Bibliographic markers, however, are not reliable for distinguishing lesser kinds of syntheses from highlevel integrations of substance.Dialog's RANK command is demonstrated