Online Review: Volume 1 Issue 2

European telecommunications roundup

Today, the telecommunication issue in Europe is possibly the most important influence in the growth and establishment of the on‐line information market in that region. Europe is…

User education and training

ISI: 1977 On‐line training program. We have asked ISI to prepare a report of their training program for us. The report follows.

On‐line update

On‐line update combines a bibliography of recent on‐line articles with a search example from a data base producer showing techniques especially useful in searching its data base…

Search corner

This section presents tips on on line searching, sample searches on various data bases, and search problems that our readers have found particularly challenging. We encourage…

An explanation of the coming stagnation of information search services

Mats G. Lindquist

Analyses of the on‐line search market have been subject to several serious misconceptions concerning the service retailers, i.e. the information search services (ISS). One of the…

Some differences between three on‐line systems: impact on search results

Sandra H. Rouse, Laurence W. Lannom

With the growth in multiple on‐line search systems providing access to bibliographic data bases, exclusive availability of data bases is quickly disappearing. The searcher equally…

Scientific and technical data bases in a multilingual society

Ariane Iljon

The present situation concerning the use of different languages in data bases is outlined. It is somewhat analogous to that in the field of publishing, as English is the…

Distribution of SDC Search Service in Canada by INFOMART

Georg R. Mauerhoff

INFOMART is an information retrieval service of the Southam Press Limited and the Torstar Corporation. It provides exclusive access in Canada to the Search Service of the System…