Online Review: Volume 3 Issue 1

News

Mary M. Nash, P.W. Williams

Lockheed to add Foreign Trade Index and The Philosophers Index; installs new computer. Lockheed Information Systems continues to announce plans for database additions at a rapid…

Questions for selection of information retrieval systems

Richard I. Blue

Questions for gathering information to compare information retrieval systems are listed.

Restrictions on database use: are they necessary?

H.C. Molster

The use of bibliographic databases and their retrieval results are presently restricted in a variety of ways. The data producers have generally instituted these restrictions to…

Background characteristics of industrial and academic users and nonusers of online bibliographic search services

Alan E. Bayer, Gerald Jahoda

Mediated free online bibliographic search services were offered to 70 academic chemists and 262 industrial scientists and technologists. Consistent with earlier studies of users…

Marketing for online bibliographic services

A. Elias

The marketing of online bibliographic products has been a largely unknown area for the components of the industry — Database Suppliers, System Operators, and Telecommunications…