Online Review: Volume 5 Issue 6

Economies of online retrieval

Katherine M. Markee

The growth and usage of online information systems has resulted in institutions making statistical studies on the costs of providing this service to users. Vendors analyze their…

Automatic Identification of duplicates after multidatabase online searching

E.S. Onorato, G. Bianchi

Multidatabase queries have become a must in online searching; the consequent occurrence of duplicates due to file overlaps has become a permanent handicap of online searching. The…

Ringdoc — the database for pharmaceutical manufacturers and researchers

Ryan E. Hoover

The RINGDOC database of Derwent Publications Ltd. is the world's most comprehensive database covering pharmaceutical literature. RINGDOC contains over 500,000 references from 1964…

A comparison of online databases in relation to agricultural research and development

B.K. Johnson

The diverse nature of agricultural information and an increasing number of online databases containing relevant material present problems for the online searcher. Limited database…

Telecommunications Regulations and policy

Karl W. Brimmer

Many feel that we are in a period of fundamental social and economic change made possible by advanced computer and telecommunications technology; I believe this, but there are…

Online Teaching Aids from the Department of Information Science, University of Sheffield, England

Frances E. Wood

Four simulations of online services have been produced by students of the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield; FOSSILS, a simulation of Lockheed Dialog;…

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