Student or educator? Sign up with your school email and get 6 months of Pro free.
CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 1,757

The DOI matches its Crossref record.

The design of browsing and berrypicking techniques for the online search interface

Bates, Marcia J.·1989·Online Review
DOI 10.1108/eb024320
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

First, a new model of searching in online and other information systems, called ‘berrypicking’, is discussed. This model, it is argued, is much closer to the real behavior of information searchers than the traditional model of information retrieval is, and, consequently, will guide our thinking better in the design of effective interfaces. Second, the research literature of manual information seeking behavior is drawn on for suggestions of capabilities that users might like to have in online systems. Third, based on the new model and the research on information seeking, suggestions are made for how new search capabilities could be incorporated into the design of search interfaces. Particular attention is given to the nature and types of browsing that can be facilitated.

Overview

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1108/eb024320

Cites

Statistics

Verification

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Citations

Cites

No references could be resolved yet.

Research works printed but not linked: 49

  1. 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198607)37:4<204::AID-ASI5>3.0.CO;2-P · DOI
  2. 10.1016/0306-4573(88)90048-9 · DOI
  3. Robertson S.E., 1977, Journal of Documentation, 33, 2
  4. Kuhn T.S., 1970, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  5. Ellis D., 1984, Social Science Information Studies, 4, 4
  6. 10.1177/016555158400800105 · DOI
  7. Bates M.J., 1985, Italy, 16, 91
  8. 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198611)37:6<357::AID-ASI1>3.0.CO;2-H · DOI
  9. 10.1108/eb026631 · DOI
  10. Belkin N.J., 1982, Journal of Documentation, 38, 2
  11. Salton G., 1968, Automatic Information Organization and Retrieval
  12. Line M.B., 1974, Proceedings of the Conference on Access of Knowledge and Information in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Library Science Dept., Queens College, 146
  13. Haart H.P., 1984, Social Science Information Studies, 4, 1
  14. 10.1108/eb026734 · DOI
  15. 10.5860/crl_45_02_99 · DOI
  16. Ellis D., Journal of Documentation, in press.
  17. Kuhlthau C.C., 1988, RQ, 28, 2
  18. 10.5860/crl_40_05_426 · DOI
  19. Frarey C.J., 1953, Maurice F. Tauber, 147
  20. 10.1108/eb026813 · DOI
  21. A.J. Palay and M.S. Fox, 'Browsing through Databases', in R.N. Oddy, et al, eds.Information Retrieval Research, Butterworths, 1981, pp.310-324.
  22. 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198711)38:6<389::AID-ASI1>3.0.CO;2-4 · DOI
  23. 10.1016/0306-4573(88)90075-1 · DOI
  24. 10.1016/0306-4573(85)90105-0 · DOI
  25. Hildreth C.R., 1989, DC: Library of Congress Cataloging Distribution Service
  26. 10.1108/eb046986 · DOI
  27. C.R. Hildreth, 'Online Browsing Support Capabilities', Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 19, 1982, pp.127-132.
  28. 10.1177/016555158601200501 · DOI
  29. Ingwersen P., 1986, Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval: Pisa. Italy.
  30. Bates M.J., 1984, RQ, 24, 1
  31. Bates M.J., 1976, RQ., 16, 1
  32. Norman D.A., 1988, The Psychology of Everyday Things
  33. 10.1109/TSMC.1982.4308795 · DOI · Paper page
  34. Elkerton J., 1984, Human Factors, 26, 2, 10.1177/001872088402600204 · DOI
  35. 10.1016/S0020-7373(82)80011-4 · DOI
  36. 10.1016/S0020-7373(86)80037-2 · DOI
  37. Huston M.M., 1989, Research Strategies, 7, 1
  38. Hannabuss S., 1989, ASLIB Proceedings, 41, 3
  39. 10.1002/asi.5090190103 · DOI · Paper page
  40. 10.1145/5401.5405 · DOI
  41. Bennett J.L., 1971, Interactive Bibliographyc Search: The User/Computer Interface, 67
  42. Bolt R.A., 1978, Spatial Data Management System, 10.21236/ADA070243 · DOI
  43. Woods D.D., 1984, InternationalJournal ofMan-Machine Studies, 21, 3
  44. Michel D., 1986, When Does it Make Sense to Use Graphic Representations in Interactive Bibliographyc Retrieval Systems?', manuscript
  45. Foskett D.J., 1983, Pathwaysfor Communication
  46. Atherton P., 1978, Books arefor Use. Final Report of the Subject Access Project
  47. Bates M.J., 1986, RQ, 26, 1, 10.1016/0033-5894(86)90080-3 · DOI
  48. Conklin J., 1987, A Survey of Hypertext
  49. 10.1016/0306-4573(84)90044-X · DOI

Cited by

See all 1,757

Metadata

Authors
Bates, M. J.
Venue
Online Review
Publisher
Emerald
Published
1989-05-01
Volume
13
Issue
5
Pages
407-424
ISSN
0309-314X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1108/eb024320
OpenAlex
W1964729842
Cited by
1,757
References
0
FWCI
9.72
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.emerald.com/insight/site-policies (tdm)

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review

How to cite

Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.

This page
CoChat. (2026). Citation check: The design of browsing and berrypicking techniques for the online search interface. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1108/eb024320
The paper
Bates, M. J. (1989). The design of browsing and berrypicking techniques for the online search interface. Online Review. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb024320

Data sources

Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.

Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).

Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.