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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
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2008
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ809161 |
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| author | Beall, Jeffrey |
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| collection | Education Resources Information Center |
| contents | The Weaknesses of Full-Text Searching Beall, Jeffrey Academic Libraries Databases Information Retrieval Search Strategies Criticism This paper provides a theoretical critique of the deficiencies of full-text searching in academic library databases. Because full-text searching relies on matching words in a search query with words in online resources, it is an inefficient method of finding information in a database. This matching fails to retrieve synonyms, and it also retrieves unwanted homonyms. Numerous other problems also make full-text searching an ineffective information retrieval tool. Academic libraries purchase and subscribe to numerous proprietary databases, many of which rely on full-text searching for access and discovery. An understanding of the weaknesses of full-text searching is needed to evaluate the search and discovery capabilities of academic library databases. |
| format | Recurso educativo Open Access |
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| institution | ERIC Institute of Education Sciences |
| language | en |
| publishDate | 2008 |
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| spellingShingle | The Weaknesses of Full-Text Searching Beall, Jeffrey Academic Libraries Databases Information Retrieval Search Strategies Criticism The Weaknesses of Full-Text Searching Beall, Jeffrey Academic Libraries Databases Information Retrieval Search Strategies Criticism This paper provides a theoretical critique of the deficiencies of full-text searching in academic library databases. Because full-text searching relies on matching words in a search query with words in online resources, it is an inefficient method of finding information in a database. This matching fails to retrieve synonyms, and it also retrieves unwanted homonyms. Numerous other problems also make full-text searching an ineffective information retrieval tool. Academic libraries purchase and subscribe to numerous proprietary databases, many of which rely on full-text searching for access and discovery. An understanding of the weaknesses of full-text searching is needed to evaluate the search and discovery capabilities of academic library databases. |
| title | The Weaknesses of Full-Text Searching |
| topic | Academic Libraries Databases Information Retrieval Search Strategies Criticism |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ809161 |