Aslib Proceedings

Software off the shelf: in‐house information with a micro

Paul Burton

The subject of this paper is two‐fold, in that I have been asked to consider the availability and the practical use of software packages for information retrieval with a…

External databases: an overview

Allan Foster

A typology for external online databases is presented and the current number of bibliographic and source databases is assessed. The nature and importance of source…

Using a general purpose microcomputer for online searching

D.M. Nicholson, J.H. Petrie

In 1981, the Online Search Service at the University of Strathclyde began using a microcomputer, rather than an ordinary ‘dumb’ terminal, to search online databases. The…

Computerisation of an industrial information department — the use of STATUS at Howson Algraphy

Jim Hetherington

The problems facing the Information Department due to a combination of an outdated manual edge punched card information system and new requirements are discussed. The…

After PERLINE: one route to computerised housekeeping using PERLINE as a starting point

F.A. Graham

The UKAEA Library, Risley provides standard library services based on manual systems with a staff mostly of clerical level. Increasing demands made on ageing systems were…

One way in—the alternative information scene

Donald W. Lee

Alternative information networks—born out of social change as part of the 1960's sub‐culture—have adapted, died and been re‐born in many ways until now in the 1980's they…

Alternative information

Ann Lawes

It is doubtful whether an acceptable definition of the term alternative information is at present available to us. What is certain is that someone working in a public…

Finding out about women

Pat Darter

Recently somebody said to me: ‘Well of course it's not your sources which are alternative but your subject matter’. At first glance one is inclined to agree with this, but…