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Thesauri Used in Online Databases: An Analytical Guide
Thesauri Used in Online Databases An Analytical Guide Author:Lois Mai Chan, Richard Pollard The rapid proliferation of online databases has been accompanied by an equally rapid increase in the number of thesauri, particularyly those used by bibliographic databases. This guide is designed to assist users of online databases identify the relevant indexing vocabularies used in specific online databases, the syndetic structures employed in... more » specific thesauri, and the arrangement of descriptor displays. Selected for inclusion in this guide are thesauri used by databases that are widely available through the large commercial retrieval services and thesauri used by large databases.« less