Number of found records: 11
|
HARTLEY, James |
|
Current findings from research on structured abstracts |
|
Journal of the Medical Library Association-(-JMLA-), 2004, vol. 92, n.3 |
|
On line (10/05/2005) |
|
The full text of this electronic journal article can be found at (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=442180). Background: Structured abstracts were introduced into medical research journals in the mid 1980s. Since then they have been widely used in this and other contexts. Aim: The aim of this paper is to summarize the main findings from research on structured abstracts and to discuss the limitations of some aspects of this research. Method: A narrative literature review of all of the relevant papers known to the author was conducted. Results: Structured abstracts are typically longer than traditional ones, but they are also judged to be more informative and accessible. Authors and readers also judge them to be more useful than traditional abstracts. However, not all studies use real-life published examples from different authors in their work, and more work needs to be done in some cases. Conclusions: The findings generally support the notion that structured abstracts can be profitably introduced into research journals. Some arguments for this, however, have more research support than others. (AU) |
|
Author abstracts; Structured abstracts |
Assessment |
|
|
|
|
HARTLEY, James; BETTS, L. |
|
The effects of spacing and titles on judgments of the effectiveness of structured abstracts |
|
Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 2007, Vol. 58 Issue 14, pp. 2335-2340 |
|
On line (04/2008) (Only UGR) |
|
Previous research assessing the effectiveness of structured abstracts has been limited in two respects. First, when comparing structured abstracts with traditional ones, investigators usually have rewritten the original abstracts, and thus confounded changes in the layout with changes in both the wording and the content of the text. Second, investigators have not always included the title of the article together with the abstract when asking participants to judge the quality of the abstracts, yet titles alert readers to the meaning of the materials that follow. The aim of this research was to redress these limitations. Three studies were carried out. Four versions of each of four abstracts were prepared. These versions consisted of structured/traditional abstracts matched in content, with and without titles. In Study 1, 64 undergraduates each rated one of these abstracts on six separate rating scales. In Study 2, 225 academics and research workers rated the abstracts electronically, and in Study 3, 252 information scientists did likewise. In Studies 1 and 3, the respondents rated the structured abstracts significantly more favorably than they did the traditional ones, but the presence or absence of titles had no effect on their judgments. In Study 2, no main effects were observed for structure or for titles. The layout of the text, together with the subheadings, contributed to the higher ratings of effectiveness for structured abstracts, but the presence or absence of titles had no clear effects in these experimental studies. It is likely that this spatial organization, together with the greater amount of information normally provided in structured abstracts, explains why structured abstracts are generally judged to be superior to traditional ones. (AU) |
|
Structured abstract |
Assessment |
|
|
|
|
ALEXANDER SIGEL, M.A. |
|
Working Group Quality Criteria for Different Types of Abstracts (notes by Alexander Sigel) |
|
Summarizing Text for Intelligent Communication. Dagstuhl Seminar 13.12.-17.12.1993, Dagstuhl, Germany. |
|
On line ( 15/06/2004) |
|
Four models of how to evaluate abstract quality were proposed. Strong need of user-oriented qualitative research was expressed. Major achivement would be to extrinsically understand use of summaries by users. (AU) |
|
abstracting models; quality; evaluation |
Assessment |
|
|
|
|
HUI, S. C.; GOH, A. |
|
Incorporating abstract generation into an online retrieval interface for a library newspaper cutting system. |
|
Aslib-Proceedings, 1996, vol. 48, n.11/12, pp. 259-65. |
|
PDF |
|
Describes a library electronic newspaper cutting system incorporating indicative abstracts developed at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Discusses and evaluates different abstract generation techniques incorporated into the retrieval interface, including the location method, indicative phrases, the title-keyword method and keyword frequency. The retrieval interface allows readers to retrieve news articles via Web browsers. Dynamic abstracts are generated to help the reader filter out irrelevant news articles without having to review the whole article. It was found that the title keyword and location methods produced the highest relevance among the abstracting techniques. (DB) |
|
automatic abstracting |
Assessment |
|
|
|
Showing page 1 of 3 Previous 1 2 3 Next |
