Online Review: Volume 2 Issue 4

News

Gerri G. Lawrence

The Online Circuit which was formed in June of this year, as reprinted in the June 78 issue of Online Review has been busy during the summer months compiling members for the…

European Hosts: InfoLine — a new European online service

In the last two issues of Online Review we gave a report on the European Space Agency — Information Retrieval Service (IRS) and on the British Library — BLAISE service. In this…

An online component in an interdisciplinary course on information resources for science and engineering students

Arthur Antony, Robert Sivers, Virginia Weiser, Alfred Hodina

Principles of online bibliographic information retrieval, and some practical work with major search systems, was offered as a component of a course dealing with information…

Bibliometrics of the online information retrieval literature

Donald T. Hawkins

Some bibliometric characteristics of the literature of online information retrieval have been studied. A total of 1051 references in two recent bibliographies were examined. The…

Online retrieval — today and tomorrow

Martha E. Williams

The present success of online retrieval is well known. The future is dependent on several factors including technological developments (computers, communications, terminals and…

Development of multi‐media teaching packages for user education in online retrieval systems

A. Vickery, A.M. Batten

A multimedia teaching aid, the Mediatron, has been developed by the Central Information Service of the University of London to illustrate the potential of online by recording…