Technology literature search

Author: Lai Maosheng et al.
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Publishing Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This book combines the needs of current science and technology literature retrieval teaching and practical work, systematically elaborating on the basic principles and methods of science and technology literature retrieval. It introduces some important domestic and international retrieval tools and their usage. The content of the book is rich, not only including the introduction of traditional literature indexing methods but also dedicating significant to introducing current new retrieval technologies and methods, such as keywording, subject indexing, descriptor indexing, thesaurus-based subject indexing, meaning-preserving indexing, citation indexing, automatic indexing and automated abstracting, new retrieval technologies, and evaluation methods, etc. The second edition of this book has been comprehensively revised based on the first edition (published in 1985, which won the second prize of the Ministry of Education's Outstanding Teaching Material Award in 1988), to reflect the new changes and developments in the field of science and technology literature retrieval and to make it more perfect. This book can serve as a textbook for library science and information science majors, as well as a reference book for students in science and engineering disciplines learning literature retrieval. It can also be used as a reference for theoretical and practical workers in the field of library and information science. Additionally, this book is one of the main reference books listed in the "Review Outline for Basic Subjects of Library Science" (compiled under the auspices of the Library Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Culture).