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A SURVEY OF THE CONTENT AND CHARACTERISTICS OF ELECTRONIC ABSTRACTS (1997)
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@MISC{Wheatley97asurvey,
author = {Alan Wheatley and C. J. Armstrong},
title = {A SURVEY OF THE CONTENT AND CHARACTERISTICS OF ELECTRONIC ABSTRACTS},
year = {1997}
}
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Abstract
The study had three investigative areas: an examination of current database producers’ guidelines for their abstract writers, a brief survey of abstracts in some traditional online databases, and a detailed survey of abstracts from three types of electronic database (printsourced online databases, Internet subject trees or directories, and Internet gateways). The database producers, traditional online databases, and Internet databases were identified as representative of electronic information sources relevant to the higher education community in Britain, and were selected on the basis of both technical criteria and availability. Abstracts were investigated to secure quantitative determinations of their properties in two broad areas. Their content was examined to ascertain the abstracts ’ coverage of source document concepts, to quantify their depiction of source document elements such as bibliographies, figures and tables, and to see if they acknowledged any geographical constraints of source documents affecting their value for users. To assess their physical and readability properties, abstracts were subjected to readability testing software that measured primary characteristics such as total length, sentence length and word length, and applied
Keyphrases
content characteristic electronic abstract traditional online database source document sentence length quantitative determination technical criterion electronic information source detailed survey database producer investigative area readability property broad area abstract coverage primary characteristic source document concept brief survey internet gateway total length education community internet subject tree source document element current database producer guideline internet database electronic database abstract writer geographical constraint printsourced online database word length
