INFORMATION RETRIEVAL 84:260 SPRING 2007

All assignments should be word-processed. Label all printouts and photocopies of material with your name.  Fasten all parts of an assignment together.

Assignment 9

1. For the partial information given to you below, locate the paper in SFS. Print off the full record.  

        a. Cite the article.

        b.  Explain your search strategy.

        c.  Your article is available in some format at UML. Identify the format(s). You do not have to supply a copy of the article.

        d.  Locate one article which has cited your article.   

  1. Write the citation for the citing article.
  2. How many other articles have cited the article you were assigned.   



Partial citations. All papers mention acetylene, all are dated in the 1950's.

1. Wooding/Higginson/Soc./774

2. Saksena/J. Chem. Phys./20/95

5. Ingold/King/Soc./2725

6. Innes/J.Chem.Phys./22/863

7. Wingfield/Stanley/J. Chem. Phys./23/731

8. Eggers et al./J. Phys. Chem/59/1124

9. Watanabe/Namioka/J. Chem. Phys./24/915

10. Nostrand/Duncan/JACS/76/3377

11. Barker/Nature/172/631

12. Ingersoll/Liebenberg/J.opt. Soc.Am/46/539

2. You have been assigned a CAN number of an early paper in SFS (see list below, and do your assigned number). The abstract of this paper contains at least two (or more) references to other papers.

  1. Locate one of these papers.
  2. Provide the SFS record.
  3. Cite the paper.
  4. Explain your search strategy.
  5. Explain why you believe it is the correct paper.

For extra credit, locate second paper.

Please note that these abstracts contain from 2-6 references to other papers. Only 10 extra credit points, for finding one additional paper, will be given.

  1. 4:11794
  2. 5:11320
  1. 1:5237
  2. 4:15635
  3. 4:14706
  4. 4:5850
  5. 1:1221
  6. 4:13785
  7. 4:5242
  8. 4:9678

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