Online Review: Volume 6 Issue 6
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The Polytechnic of Central London in England has been given a two‐year government grant to set up an Information Technology Centre at its Regent Street site to put on public…
A Swedish evaluation study of the ISI/Biomed information system
Viveka Alton Lundberg, Tor AhleniusISI/Biomed is a new bibliographic database, which forms a subset of SciSearch and contains about 800,000 references to articles, meeting abstracts, letters, editorials, review…
The pricing of information — a search‐based approach to pricing an online search service
Harry F. BoyleCAS ONLINE is a unique searching system with an innovative pricing structure. This paper provides a description of the service and discusses the pricing options CAS considered…
The role of the information specialist in academic research
Julie M. NewayThis case study investigated the role of an information specialist as an active team member in an academic scientific research setting. The information specialist attended weekly…
Evaluation of alternative microcomputer systems for retrieval of scientific references
R.H. Davis, C. Rinaldi, J. NevesThe practice of using a large international database to retrieve scientific abstracts through a time sharing network may be replaced by storing this type of information locally on…