Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 1974
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1974jasis..25..156m&link_type=abstract
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 25, 156-160
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
An evaluation of a current awareness service in Physics and Astronomy at The University of Texas at Austin is presented. The service is provided currently to over 130 physicists and astronomers; about half of them participated in the evaluation. The computer-produced printouts were derived from the monthly SPIN tapes of the American Institute of Physics. It was found that 67% rated the current awareness printouts favorably and 20% unfavorably. Participants tended to use SPIN to supplement their usual literature needs. The primary complaints about the effectiveness of the service were the broadness of the classification scheme, insufficient journal coverage, and slowness in receipt of abstracts on the tapes. A retrospective search facility is available but not heavily used at the present time, due to the short time span covered by the tapes.
Martin Jean K.
Parsons Ronald G.
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