Name:        RIRD DATABASE   
        Description: Abstracts retrieved from DIALOG databases
                     with a set of 40 queries. 
	Copyright (c) 1988 Rutgers University.  All Rights Reserved.
        Contact:     Tefco Saracevic
                     School of Communication, Information and
                        Library Studies
                     Rutgers University
                     4 Huntington Street
                     New Brunswick, NJ 08903
               
                     (201) 932-7447

	This directory contains the following four subdirectories:

	 QUEST    -  Texts of the 40 questions posed by 40 users as 
                     related to individual ongoing research and work.
 
         ABSTRACT -  Citations or items retrieved, including abstracts
                     if available, for the 40 questions.  Each file name
                     is of the form Yqqqbbb.ABS.  The citations are
                     grouped based on the number "qqq".  The "bbb" 
                     indicates the Dialog file or database in which the    
                     search was conducted for the particular question.
                     
         RELEV    -  Accession numbers of the retrieved items with users'
                     relevance judgements.   Each file name is of the
                     form Yqqqbbb.DAT.  The files are grouped based on
                     the number "qqq".  The "bbb" indicates the Dialog
                     file or database in which the search was conducted 
                     for the particular question.

         QSTOUT   -  Summary numerical data for the 40 questions, grouped
                     by question numbers.