Online Review: Volume 12 Issue 4

Medline on CD‐ROM; an evaluation after six months' use

Ans Bleeker, Ingeborg A.S. Tjiam, Aloysius C.W. Volkers

The 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. Harter

A ‘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. Pathak

The 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 Perez

Bib/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. Gerrard

CD‐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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