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Volume 8, Issue 1
1 January 1992
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Research Article| January 01 1992

PASSPORT/PRISM: Search‐to‐produce ratio explained

Judith Carter
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2377-620X
Print ISSN: 8756-5196
© MCB UP Limited
1992
OCLC Micro (1992) 8 (1): 16–18.
https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000003678

Discusses the change in the search‐to‐produce ratio from 3:1 to 1.5:1 free searches for every produce or update command. Explains what the OCLC considers to be on the ′search′ side and what activities are on the ′produce′ side of the ratio, focusing on numeric and derived keys,title browse, search history, and the use of microenhancers and CD450 searches.

Keywords: Cataloguing, Computer networks, Information services, IT, Libraries, Online retrieval, Reference libraries
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