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The purpose is to identify thesaurus\u2010linked tree structures, controlled subject headings\/terms (heading words, descriptors), and principal database\u2010dependent characteristics and assess how controlled terms improve retrieval results (recall) in relation to free\u2010text\/uncontrolled terms in abstracts and document titles.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>Several different hosts (interfaces, platforms, portals) and databases were used: CSA Illumina (ERIC, LISA), Ebscohost (Academic Search Complete, Medline, Political Science Complete), Ei\u2010Engineering Village (Compendex, Inspec), OVID (PsycINFO), ProQuest (ABI\/Inform Global). The search\u2010terms agriculture and agricultural and truncated word\u2010stem agricultur\u2010 were employed. Permuted (rotated index) search fields were used to retrieve terms from thesauri. Subject\u2010heading search was assessed in relation to free\u2010text search, based on abstracts and document titles.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>All thesauri contain agriculture\u2010based headings; however, associative, hierarchical and synonymous relationships show important inter\u2010database differences. Using subject headings along with abstracts and titles in search syntax (query) sometimes improves retrieval by up to 60 per cent. Retrieval depends on search fields and database\u2010specifics, such as autostemming (lemmatization), explode function, word\u2010indexing, or phrase\u2010indexing.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Research limitations\/implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>Inter\u2010database and host comparison, on consistent principles, can be limited because of some particular host\u2010 and database\u2010specifics.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Practical implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>End\u2010users may exploit databases more competently and thus achieve better retrieval results in searching for agriculture\u2010related information.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>The function of as many as ten databases in different disciplines in providing information relevant to subject matter that is not a topical focus of databases is assessed.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/00330331211221873","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,4,21]],"date-time":"2012-04-21T11:57:04Z","timestamp":1335009424000},"page":"258-276","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Non\u2010agricultural databases and thesauri"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"46","author":[{"given":"Tomaz","family":"Bartol","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"key":"key2021010620275188400_b1","unstructured":"Anghelescu, H.G.B., Yuan, X. and Zhang, X. 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