Online Review: Volume 7 Issue 3

News

Open AgriStar demo centres in 5,500 radio shack stores. AgriStar, the online electronic information bank for agriculture, is now being demonstrated and sold through more than…

Medline via the IBM 3279

Ahmed H. El‐Hoshy

A new in‐house access to Medline at NLM via the IBM 3270 family of hardware is described. Accompanying performance features of speed, screen oriented dialog and diacritic support…

Evaluation of Biomed and ISTPB, two new literature databases from the Institute of Scientific Information

Janice Bradshaw

Two new databases from the Institute of Scientific Information — Biomed and ISTPB — were compared with a number of databases, selected from Medline, Biosis and CAB Abstracts, to…

Study of strategies used in online searching: 3. Query refining

J.J. Schroder

Twelve different ways for reduction of a large set by removal of irrelevant or unwanted elements are reviewed. Methods discussed include logic revision, concept revision and…

Public database services in Hungary

I. Sebestyen

One of the most important categories of data flow applications is databases — especially public databases. Without going into depth concerning the philosophy of database…