Bibliographic Database on Radiolarian Literatures -JRADS-

Searching a biomedical bibliographic database from Bulgaria: the ABS database.

BACKGROUND The University of Sofia, Bulgaria, disseminates local biomedical literature (1994 to present) through a free online database, ABS. OBJECTIVES Our objectives were to systematically search ABS, identify citations to controlled trials and discover what proportion of these studies are to be found on medline. METHODS We searched using Bulgarian and English phrases; manually selected c...

On the Query Refinement in Searching a Bibliographic Database

In this paper we present an application of the logic-based query refinement in the searching for information in an information portal. The refinement approach is based on the discovery of causal relationships between queries regarding the inclusion relation between the answers of these queries. We define a formal model for the query-answering pairs and use methods from the inductive logic progr...

LDC Language Resource Database: Building a Bibliographic Database

The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) creates and provides language resources (LRs) including data, tools and specifications. In order to assess the impact of these LRs and to support both LR users and authors, LDC is collecting metadata about and URLs for research papers that introduce, describe, critique, extend or rely upon LDC LRs. Current collection efforts focus on papers published in jour...

The refdbms Distributed Bibliographic Database System

Refdbms is a database system for sharing bibliographic references among many users at sites on a wide-area network such as the Internet. This paper describes our experiences in building and using refdbms for the last two years. It summarizes the collection of facilities that refdbms provides, and gives detailed information on how well refdbms functions as a collaborative, wide-area, distributed...

Running head: PITFALLS OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE SEARCHING