| medline on cd-rom: end user searching in a medical school library. | end users at the medical college of pennsylvania enjoyed searching cd-rom versions of medline and judged such searches "extremely useful." to assess the effectiveness of their searches, a sample of 500 search statements from compact cambridge (cc) medline was examined. a high proportion of search statements (224, or 45 percent) retrieved no documents. over one-third of search statements (185, or 37 percent) contained at least one error, which usually resulted in zero retrieval for that search st ... | 1988 | 10303159 |