Quality of Researchers' Searches of the ERIC Database
During the last ten years, end-users of electronic databases have become progressively less dependent on librarians and other intermediaries. This is certainly the case with the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Database, a resource once accessed by passing a paper query form to a libr...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Arizona State University
1999-08-01
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Series: | Education Policy Analysis Archives |
Online Access: | http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/560 |
Summary: | During the last ten years, end-users of electronic databases have become progressively less dependent on librarians and other intermediaries. This is certainly the case with the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Database, a resource once accessed by passing a paper query form to a librarian and now increasingly searched directly by end-users. This article empirically examines the search strategies currently being used by researchers and other groups. College professors and educational researchers appear to be doing a better job searching the database than other ERIC patrons. However, the study suggests that most end-users should be using much better search strategies. |
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ISSN: | 1068-2341 |