Recent new entries Entry -- Hit count in OhioLINK -- MainList Section Adversitis* -- 0001 -- E Adverst* -- 0007 -- D Advet* -- 0006 -- D Beehov* -- 0003 -- D ...
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Tina Gunther
tinagunther5
Dec 9, 2005 6:32 pm
Mexica has been on the MainList since 1999, but I think it needs to move to the MoreList as: Mexica/Mexican/Mexico I was checking "Mexica" to update its "hit"...
2824
Ian Fairclough
ifairclough@...
Dec 9, 2005 6:40 pm
The following errors, all committed by, for or about the U.S. government, might be in your database: confernece SHOULD BE conferences [pl.] "eletronic" SHOULD...
2825
wendeeeyler
Dec 9, 2005 11:55 pm
Typo - OhiLINK hits congretation - 2 furnance - 13 kindom - 14 of 17 (some appear to be surnames) suface - 15 (suface* - 17) Wendee...
2826
Phalbe Henriksen
bradford@...
Jan 5, 2006 10:03 pm
Colordao -- 2 in OhioLINK, 20 in OCLC Phalbe...
2827
Tina Gunther
tinagunther5
Jan 5, 2006 10:55 pm
These are from Wendee and Tina Entry -- Hit score from OhioLINK -- MainList section Adressed -- 0004 -- D Adresses -- 0030 -- B Adressing -- 0005 -- D ...
2828
Phalbe Henriksen
bradford@...
Jan 6, 2006 6:16 pm
identication -- 1 in OhioLINK, 20 in OCLC Phalbe...
2830
Phalbe Henriksen
phenriksen2001
Jan 10, 2006 11:02 pm
How did *he* wander in? Phalbe...
2831
Ballard, Terry Prof.
terryballard
Jan 10, 2006 11:31 pm
I'm the guilty party. Sometimes I take a chance on people who apply for list membership. I was a little wary of this one, but couldn't think of a good reason...
2832
Phalbe Henriksen
phenriksen2001
Jan 10, 2006 11:40 pm
... Yeah, I'd noticed that, too. He wrote way too well.... Phalbe...
2833
Tina Gunther
tinagunther5
Jan 10, 2006 11:52 pm
... The message was exceptionally well-written spam, but it was still spam. Oh, well. It could have been much worse. Tina...
2834
Phalbe Henriksen
phenriksen2001
Jan 11, 2006 3:08 am
Yeah, could have had lots of typos that we'd have felt obligated to search out. :) Phalbe...
2835
wendeeeyler
Jan 12, 2006 4:48 pm
typos - OhioLINK hits excert - 3 excerts - 5 (for the correct words: excerpt and excerpts) sorces - 1 (for the correct word: sources. "Sorce" is a very popular...
2836
Tina Gunther
tinagunther5
Jan 12, 2006 7:43 pm
... Sorce-of -- 0001 -- E Sorces-of -- 0001 -- E "Sorce*-of and not sorcer*-of" picks up both but I suspect that Terry would rule against it as an entry for...
2837
Tina Gunther
tinagunther5
Jan 12, 2006 8:05 pm
Excert* -- 0018 -- B Does anyone know if "excertos"; is a typo in Portuguese? I couldn't find it in any online dictionaries, but there are 14 hits on it in...
2838
Ballard, Terry Prof.
terryballard
Jan 12, 2006 8:15 pm
You're right! Sorce* picks up the correct spellings of sorcery, etc., so it looks like a Moretypos candidate to me. Terry Terry Ballard, Automation Librarian ...
2839
Tina Gunther
tinagunther5
Jan 12, 2006 9:32 pm
... This looks to me like still another example of bad research reporting at best, bad research techniques at worst. Personally, I find typo-tracing an...
2840
Phalbe Henriksen
phenriksen2001
Jan 14, 2006 10:07 pm
Folks, I have just discovered the motherlode of typos -- Gale's InfoTrac OneFile, OCLC's ArticleFirst, and OCLC's Electronic Collections together yield 698...
2841
Phalbe Henriksen
phenriksen2001
Jan 14, 2006 10:18 pm
... I have just one bit of experience with the statistics about librarians' stress level. I had a county commissioner respond, "Then why don't they change...
2842
Tina Gunther
tinagunther5
Jan 16, 2006 6:16 pm
... Wow, indeed! That kind of an error count makes me wonder how many legitimate searches are missing a lot of hits because of typos in keywords. Maybe someone...
2843
Beall, Jeffrey
jeffrey_beall
Jan 16, 2006 6:21 pm
Some of these 698 hits may not be typos. Some could be something like this: "The patient was prostrate. Cancer was not indicated in the diagnosis." --Jeffrey ...
2844
Phalbe Henriksen
phenriksen2001
Jan 16, 2006 6:56 pm
... 54,737. Phalbe P.S. accomodat? found 13,021....
2845
Phalbe Henriksen
phenriksen2001
Jan 16, 2006 7:08 pm
Carneigie -- 4 on OhioLINK, 18 in WorldCat Pisttsburgh -- 1 in OhioLINK, 0 in WorldCat Phalbe...
2846
Phalbe Henriksen
phenriksen2001
Jan 16, 2006 7:16 pm
theentire -- 102 in InfoTrac OneFile, 2 in OCLC's Electronic Collections, 5 in WorldCat, 0 in OhioLINK...
2847
Ballard, Terry Prof.
terryballard
Jan 16, 2006 7:32 pm
Something seems to be weird here. I'll check the usual suspects like commerical and reseach in Gale tomorrow when I get to work. Fascinating! Terry ...
2848
Ballard, Terry Prof.
terryballard
Jan 17, 2006 8:34 pm
This is weird because I went in to Infotrac one file today and only got 99 hits for "Prostrate cancer," and I searched it as a phrase, so it really was a...
2849
Ian Fairclough
ifairclough@...
Jan 17, 2006 8:46 pm
Do they have a contact e-mail address for reporting errors? Or a link you can click on? Anything like that? - Ian (not currently an Infotrac user) Ian...
2850
Phalbe Henriksen
bradford@...
Jan 17, 2006 8:46 pm
Do any of you know anyone from Gale? The databases I have all come through the State Library, so I don't know any of the people. Wonder if they have a quality...
2851
Phalbe Henriksen
bradford@...
Jan 17, 2006 8:50 pm
Here's what Gale says about their K-12 periodical databases: Question 16 Describe your quality control methods. The full text data conversion vendors are...
2852
Phalbe Henriksen
bradford@...
Jan 17, 2006 8:59 pm
This is a combination search of InfoTrac, ArticleFirst, and Electronic Collections. All three *totalled* 698, not just InfoTrac. Phalbe...
