Online Review: Volume 8 Issue 6
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News
User poll picks ‘best’ business databases In an effort to determine which of more than fifty business‐oriented online databases yielded the ‘best’ information, Washington…
Instantcom: for online communications
The Instantcom package has a number of desirable features for online access. It offers flexible uploading of search statements, has built‐in editing, and is reasonably‐priced…
Patron presence during the online search: attitudes of university librarians
Kristine Salomon, Curt BurgessA controversial issue involving online searching is the presence of the patron during the search process. Searcher attitudes of patron presence were examined by use of a…
How videotaped online searches can supplement the teaching of online search strategy
Gardner HaskellMost instruction of online users incorporates a ‘live’ database search. The disadvantages of this live method are examined and the solution is the use of pre‐recorded…
An evaluation of document retrieval from serial files using the ICL Distributed Array Processor
Christine Pogue, Peter WillettThe ICL Distributed Array Processor, or DAP, is a single instruction stream, multiple data stream computer in which instructions are broadcast for simultaneous execution in each…