Open AccessTitle-Only Entries Retrieved by Use of Truncated Search Keys
Author(s) -
Frederick G. Kilgour
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
information technology and libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.502
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5226
pISSN - 0730-9295
DOI - 10.6017/ital.v4i4.5596
Subject(s) - computer science , information retrieval , key (lock) , line (geometry) , keyword search , world wide web , database , operating system , mathematics , geometry
An experiment testing utility of truncated search keys as inquiry terms in an on-line system was performed on a file of 16,792 title-only bibliographic entries. Use of a 3,3 key yields eight or fewer entries 99.0% of the time