The BIOSIS Data Base: Evaluation of Its Indexes and the STRATBLDR, CHEMFILE, STAIRS and DIALOG Systems for On-Line Searching

摘要

BioSciences Information Service of Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS), publishes Biological Abstracts and BioResearch Index, covering world-wide literature in the life sciences and consisting of more than 240,000 references in 1974. These two secondary sources, jointly also called BIOSIS, are computer-searchable in the batch mode back to 1959.nWith the advent of on-line searching in recent years, BIOSIS personnel developed two systems to assist them in interactive querying of their data base. These are STRATBLDR, for building the strategy, and CHEMFILE, a chemical dictionary of compounds and synonyms. STAIRS, an IBM-developed proqram, was selected for acturally performing the search on the BIOSIS file. Recognizing the need to have these systems evaluated by outside users, BIOSIS asked the North Carolina Science and Technology Research Center to collaborate on this research.