At about the same time (early 1980s), I co-authored ONTAP: Online training and practice manual for ERIC database searchers with Pauline A. Cochrane, my dissertation advisor. This manual gave five new search strategies to searchers of commercial retrieval systems such as Dialog and Nexis.
Recently, I revisited the ONTAP search strategies to determine their their viability for searchers of web search engines.
Although I concluded that only one such strategy was viable, I introduced several new search strategies -- big bite, shot in the dark, bingo!, and others -- to web searchers. Look for this paper in a summer issue of Online.
My research on search trees in online library catalogs involves search strategies because the search tree does the work of selecting the most appropriate subject search approach instead of making searchers do this guesswork on their own.
My current research interest in this area has broadened to include research process models. I believe that one of the keys to source selection for digital library users may be the research models that such users enlist.
C o n t e nts Q u i c k Bio S u b j e c t Headings C l a s s i fication S e a r c h Strategies D i g i t a l Libraries V i s u a l Images
