"Information retrieval consists of four main stages: Identifying the exact subject of the search; Locating this subject in a guide which refers the searcher to one or more documents; Locating the documents; Locating the required information in the documents."
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Douglas John Foskett (1963) Classification and indexing in the social sciences. p. 6.
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