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  2. University of Central Lancashire - Wikipedia

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    UCLan has established one of the UK's largest paid undergraduate research internship schemes. Since the scheme launched in 2008, nearly 450 interns have worked directly alongside UCLan researchers on projects as diverse as digital publishing, wind power analysis, facial composite development and smart bandage exploration.

  3. List of academic databases and search engines - Wikipedia

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    It provides powerful search engine to fulfill search and evaluation purposes for researchers, policy makers, decision makers etc. Subscription ICI [79] IARP: Multidisciplinary: Open-access knowledge management system incorporating grants, publications, conferences in natural and social & behavioral sciences.

  4. Discovery system (bibliographic search) - Wikipedia

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    A discovery system is a bibliographic search system based on search engine technology. It is part of the concept of Library 2.0 and is intended to supplement or even replace the existing OPAC catalogs. These systems emerged in the late 2000s in response to user desire for a more convenient search option similar to that of internet search engine ...

  5. Online public access catalog - Wikipedia

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    Newer generations of library catalog systems, typically called discovery systems (or a discovery layer), are distinguished from earlier OPACs by their use of more sophisticated search technologies, including relevancy ranking and faceted search, as well as features aimed at greater user interaction and participation with the system, including tagging and reviews.

  6. Evaluation measures (information retrieval) - Wikipedia

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    Indexing and classification methods to assist with information retrieval have a long history dating back to the earliest libraries and collections however systematic evaluation of their effectiveness began in earnest in the 1950s with the rapid expansion in research production across military, government and education and the introduction of computerised catalogues.

  7. School of Business, University of Central Lancashire - Wikipedia

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    The School of Business at the University of Central Lancashire (previously known as Lancashire Business School) at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) is a business school based in the city of Preston, Lancashire, England. It is located in a building at the heart of UCLan’s campus, close to the city centre.

  8. WorldCat - Wikipedia

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    WorldCat is used by librarians for cataloging and research and by the general public. As of December 2021 [update] , WorldCat contained over 540 million bibliographic records in 483 languages, representing over 3 billion physical and digital library assets, [ 4 ] and the WorldCat persons dataset ( mined from WorldCat) included over 100 million ...

  9. ProQuest Dialog - Wikipedia

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    According to its literature, [6] it was "the world's first online information retrieval system to be used globally with materially significant databases". In the 1980s, a low-priced dial-up version of a subset of Dialog was marketed to individual users as Knowledge Index . [ 7 ]