Direct User Access to the Biological Literature Through Abstracts: A Cooperative Experiment in Customized Service
- 1 September 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 16 (9) , 599-603
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1293780
Abstract
An abstracts search service (based on Biological Abstracts' large cumulative store) , freely available to personnel at the Walter Reed Army Institute for Research, and yielding abstracts in response to direct queries, increased and improved investigators' use of abstracts. Patterns of use indicated that abstracts in themselves can serve as literature.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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