Abstract
Proposes a model of the search term selection process based on an empirical study of professional searchers during the pre-online search stage; the model characterizes the selection of search terms as the navigation of different discourses. Six discourses emerged as sources of search terms: controlled vocabularies; documents and the domain; the practice of indexing; clients' search requests; databases; and the searchers' own experience. (AEF)
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