Online Review: Volume 7 Issue 4

News

New survey of information conscious executives. New York, 3 May, 1983 — A survey has produced a new store of data on the demographies, psychographics and information needs of a…

A practical stemming algorithm for online search assistance

John E. Ulmschneider, Jamas Doszkocs

Word truncation is a familiar technique employed by online searchers in order to increase recall in free text retrieval. The use of truncation, however, can be a mixed blessing…

SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information) — a need for special facilities in commercial systems

V. Mathur

A number of commercial online search services are now offering sdi to their customers on an increasing proportion of their databases. The present software in these systems…

A staffing profile of U.S. online database producers: a model and discussion of educational implications

Glenn R. Lowry

This paper reports preliminary results of a study aimed at ascertaining the size and composition of U.S. online database production organizations. All U.S. online database…

A methodology for categorizing international business literature through online bibliographic searching

Charles J. Popovich

Online bibliographic searching is offered as a solution for classifying the proliferating and diverse research prevalent in the field of international business. Introductory…