Full‐text databases in medicine

MaryEllen C. Sievert, Emma Jean McKinin and E. Diane Johnson

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1995, vol. 46, issue 10, 748-754

Abstract: The wide variety of full‐text databases pertinent to medicine requires classification. The first distinction to be made is between those full‐text databases which are full‐text retrievable only and those which are both full‐text retrievable and full‐text searchable. The full‐text searchable files may be further divided into four major groups: 1) The electronic version of factual books or directories; 2) those which reproduce textbooks and reference books; 3) the hybrid—often mixtures of full‐text and bibliographic records; and 4) the full‐text of medical journal articles. The software for searching full‐text medical databases varies from vendor to vendor. More than 400 journal titles in full‐text were available as of April 1995 but no one system contained all the full‐text medical journal titles. Little research has been done on the efficacy of using full‐text databases in the biomedical arena. The MEDLINE/Full‐Text Project represents a multi‐year effort to learn about the heuristics for searching full‐text files of medical journal articles. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Date: 1995
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