Online Review: Volume 10 Issue 2

News

Six new vendors join EasyNet. Six new database vendors will be participating in Telebase Systems' EasyNet system. The new vendors are Datasolve (London, England), Datastar (Berne…

Word Finder: an automated thesaurus

Lynn Morgan

This reviewer found Word Finder a pleasure to use, simple to install and run, and well documented. The package worked well with WordStar word‐processor software. Anyone who does…

Online in academia: a survey of online searching in US colleges and universities

Gayle McKinney, Anne Page Mosby

Although online searching has been available to libraries since the late 1960s, it is only in very recent years that a significant number of academic institutions have begun…

The development of online information retrieval services in the People's Republic of China

Lu Xiaocun

During the 1980s online information retrieval became popular in many countries but its use in China was rare. In recent years, however, China has taken a leap forward in the…