Online Review: Volume 12 Issue 4
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Medline on CD‐ROM; an evaluation after six months' use
Ans Bleeker, Ingeborg A.S. Tjiam, Aloysius C.W. VolkersThe paper describes an evaluation of six months' use of Medline on CD‐ROM from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) by end users. The results of a questionnaire indicate that end…
Detrimental effects of searching with precoordinated terms
Stephen P. HarterA ‘precoordinated’ term in a controlled vocabulary is a term that combines two concepts with Boolean AND prior to the act of indexing or searching. For example, the term Library…
Noise Levels: A database of industrial noise level measurements
J. Robert, B.P. PathakThe Noise Levels database has been developed at the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety for the computerized information system, CCINFO. The database documents…
Bib/Search: for text and structured databases
Ernest PerezBib/Search combines a full‐text database, a translator for downloaded files, and an output format translator. The package produces formal bibliographic listings in a variety of…
DIALOG Ondisc ERIC
Sarah E. GerrardCD‐ROM Review. DIALOG Ondisc ERIC corresponds to two printed indexes: Resources in Education (RIE) which covers significant educational documents, and Current Index to Journals in…
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General European governments slow to support IT. On a visit to London, Euripa's President Robert Weir said that European governments are clearly lagging behind those of the US and…