Improving subject retrieval: user-friendly interfaces and effectiveness
During the past decade our society has experienced a revolutionary increase in the extent to which the general public has access to electronic resources. This phenomenon has been characterised by: International trends leading to unification. Increased availability of personal computers at home in al...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 1998 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de la UB |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/16854 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/16854 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Recursos electrònics Recuperació de la informació Bases de dades en línia Cerca documental en línia Electronic information resources Information retrieval Online databases Online bibliographic searching |
| Sumario: | During the past decade our society has experienced a revolutionary increase in the extent to which the general public has access to electronic resources. This phenomenon has been characterised by: International trends leading to unification. Increased availability of personal computers at home in all developed countries. Wide-spread use of electronic media in our daily life, and not just in the work environment: cash dispensers, cinema and theatre tickets, computer games, electronic mail, ... Diversity of multimedia products: encyclopaedia and dictionaries, cook books, children's books, etc. Specific environments dominate the market: WWW browsers, notably Netscape and Microsoft Explorer, have effectively become standard interfaces... |
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