Online Review: Volume 6 Issue 4

Videotex versus online bibliographic databases: a Canadian prospective

Mary Nash

The rapid development of online bibliographic information retrieval systems is compared with that of videotex, still in its experimental stages. The different styles of…

A comparative evaluation of online databases in relation to welfare and corrective services, and community development

V.S. Sharma

Ten online databases were evaluated for their scope, extent of literature coverage within that scope, timelines, and degree of relevance and overlap in retrieval for welfare…

Measures that discriminate among online searchers with different training and experience

Helen Howard

The major research objectives were to identify the differences among the searchers of users of online bibliographic systems who have different backgrounds of training and…

Business information systems used by corporate planning in the food industry

Melanie C. Sze

The principal files and systems used to provide data to corporate planners in the food industry are surveyed, and useful features on each described. The files considered most…

News

Both BRS and Dialog recently announced that their services will be available to US users through the Uninet telecommunications network as well as through Tymnet and Telenet. BRS…