Information Processing and Management, Volume 21

Volume 21, Number 1, 1985

• Tefko Saracevic:
  Changing of the guard - editorial policies of information processing and management. 1-3
  
• Eugeniusz Scibor, Eleonora Jabrzemska:
  Thesaurus of common topics (TCT): Origin, functions, structure. 5-10
  
• F. J. Devadason:
  Online construction of alphabetic classaurus: A vocabulary control and indexing tool. 11-26
  
• Elliot Cole, Katherine W. McCain:
  Adoption and adaptation in the use of transaction processing systems: The case of OCLC software. 27-34
  
• George R. Cross, Cary G. de Bessonet:
  Representation of legal knowledge for conceptual retrieval. 35-44
  
• Leonard Wilkerson, Arthur Paul:
  Every system should have one: A collection of properties which can be used as a criterion for evaluating the quality of a system. 45-49
  
• M. Zaki, F. Elboraey:
  Processing of inverted files in magnetic bubble memories. 51-74
  

Volume 21, Number 2, 1985

• Trudi Bellardo:
  On book reviewing. 81-82
  
• David R. Morehead, William B. Rouse:
  Online assessment of the value of information for searchers of a bibliographic data base. 83-101
  
• L. G. Barendregt, C. A. Benschop, T. de Heer:
  Subjective trial of the performance of the information trace method. 103-111
  
• Paul H. Klingbiel:
  Phrase structure rewrite systems in information retrieval. 113-126
  
• Michael A. Shepherd, Carolyn R. Watters:
  A common interface for accessing document retrieval systems and DBMS for retrieval of bibliographic data. 127-138
  
• Vinay K. Vasudev, James M. Pruett:
  Simulation on three sizes of computers - an evaluation. 139-147
  
• N. K. Kwak, Devra A. Long, Marc J. Schniederjans:
  A cpm analysis of microbiology computerization project for hospital management information processing. 149-155
  
• C. D. Hurt:
  Library school faculty strengths in data processing Canadian-U.S. differences. 157-163
  

Volume 21, Number 3, 1985

• C. D. Hurt:
  Identification of important authors in science: A comparison of two methods of identification. 177-186
  
• Donald T. Hawkins:
  Use of machine-readable databases to support a large SDI service. 187-204
  
• Peter L. Noerr, Kathleen T. Bivins Noerr:
  Browse and navigate: An advance in database access methods. 205-213
  
• F. J. Smith, K. Devine:
  Storing and retrieving word phrases. 215-224
  
• Peter Willett:
  An algorithm for the calculation of exact term discrimination values. 225-232
  
• Israel Spiegler, Rafi Maayan:
  Storage and retrieval considerations of binary data bases. 233-254
  

Volume 21, Number 4, 1985

• Daniel B. Gordon, Naomi Sager:
  A method of measuring information in language, applied to medical texts. 269-289
  
• Martin Bärtschi:
  Requirements for query evaluation in weighted information retrieval. 291-303
  
• Miranda Lee Pao:
  Lotka's law: A testing procedure. 305-320
  
• Michel J. Menou:
  An information system for decision support in national information policy-making and planning. 321-361
  

Volume 21, Number 5, 1985

• David R. Morehead, William B. Rouse:
  Computer-aided searching of bibliographic data bases: Online estimation of the value of information. 387-399
  
• Roberto R. Kampfner:
  Formal specification of information systems requirements. 401-414
  
• Ronald Rousseau:
  On relative indexing in fuzzy retrieval systems. 415-417
  
• Henryk Rybinski, Janusz Rolecki, Janusz R. Getta, Hanna Popowska:
  Toward relationships-querying in document retrieval systems. 419-431
  
• Nageswara S. V. Rao, S. Sitharama Iyengar, C. E. Veni Madhavan:
  A comparative study of multiple attribute tree and inverted file structures for large bibliographic files. 433-442
  
• Maurice C. Lundu:
  Information processing, evaluation, and utilization: The role of academic libraries in research and development (R & D) in Zambia. 443-457
  
• James C. Bean, Margaret H. Bean:
  An integer programming approach to reference staff scheduling. 459-464
  

Volume 21, Number 6, 1985

• Peretz Shoval:
  Principles, procedures and rules in an expert system for information retrieval. 475-487
  
• Richard L. Derr:
  The concept of information in ordinary discourse. 489-499
  
• Tadeusz Radecki:
  A theoretical framework for defining similarity measures for boolean search request formulations, including some experimental results. 501-524
  
• G. A. Alabi:
  A cost comparison of manual and automated circulation systems in university libraries: The case of the Ibadan University library. 525-533
  
• Kaname Amano, Akeno Mochida:
  A supporting system for effective construction and sharing of scientific databases by general researchers. 535-544