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Cost effectiveness comparison of online and manual bibliographic information retrieval

Published:1979-04 Issue:2 Volume:1 Page:77-84
ISSN:0165-5515
Container-title:Journal of Information Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Journal of Information Science

Author:

Flynn T.¹,Holohan P.A.²,Magson M.S.³,Munro J.D.⁴

Affiliation:

1. ICI Corporate Intelligence Unit

2. ICI Pharmaceuticals Division

3. ICI Central Management Services

4. ICI Petrochemicals Division

Abstract

A model is proposed for the investigation of the cost- effectiveness of interactive online searching, as an aid towards justification of expenditure to senior management. It is concluded that online bibliographic literature retrieval is considerably more cost-effective than traditional library manual searching, as well as providing additional qualitative advantages.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Library and Information Sciences,Information Systems

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/016555157900100204

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