Journal of Information Processing and Management
Online ISSN : 1347-1597
Print ISSN : 0021-7298
ISSN-L : 0021-7298
Volume 50, Issue 9
Displaying 1-17 of 17 articles from this issue
J-STAGE Seminar
  • Misato SAKAI
    2007 Volume 50 Issue 9 Pages 569-577
    Published: 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: December 01, 2007
    JOURNAL FREE ACCESS
    Among the many searchers, it is said “the decisive factor of patent search is experience and know-how”, “search technique belongs to the person” and “knowledge that difficult to systematically transfer is truly essential part of one’s know-how”. However, searcher education is coming to the change term with facing to the spread of patent search operated by end users themselves; consequently, the method of search skill education should be changed to “instruction by a search manual”. This article describes the approach of making systematic procedures of patent search know-how, and some communicative strategies for user education.
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50th anniversary article
  • -MEDLARS, MEDLINE/PubMed, and MEDLINEplus
    Atsutake NOZOE
    Article type: 50th anniversary article
    2007 Volume 50 Issue 9 Pages 580-593
    Published: 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: December 01, 2007
    JOURNAL FREE ACCESS
    This report has surveyed medical information services of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) focused on the MEDLINE database historically from 1960s to date. Main topics reviewed are, MEDLARS, MEDLINE service, web-based database service PubMed, consumer oriented health information service MEDLINEplus, public access digital archive PubMed Central, and NLM information policies as a backbone of their various activities. From a view point of author’s experiences as a NLM MEDLARS trainee, MEDLARS indexing and search practice also are mentioned.
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