title: Retrieval from full-text medical literature: the dream & the reality.
abstract: While the retrieval of the full-text of a document might seem to end all the hassle of using traditional retrieval systems, the results of the MEDLINE/Full-Text Project indicate that retrieval from the current full-text databases of biomedical journal literature does not match the dream. During the first phase of the project the researchers learned that searching the full-text databases resulted in the retrieval of a significantly larger number of relevant documents than MEDLINE. However, the full-text databases also resulted in a large number of non-relevant documents. Currently the researchers are focusing on how to search these databases to continue retrieving the large number of relevant documents but without so many non-relevant items.
authors.affiliation: Department of Information Science, University of Missouri, Columbia.
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Sievert
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: McKinin
authors.forename: E D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Mitchell
mesh_terms: D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D016239:MEDLINE; D009862:Online Systems