Online Review: Volume 10 Issue 3

News

Pacific region business and marketing information available. A new information brokerage is offering technology, company and market assessments in New Zealand, Australia and the…

CAIRS: Local database information storage and retrieval

Gerald Lundeen

CAIRS is a storage and retrieval package for creating and using local databases. It offers a great deal of flexibility in database design, indexing options, security and output…

REF‐11: A database for references

Maria Faraone

If you find yourself drowning in reference data, unable to organize information to your satisfaction, REF‐11 may be the package to help you. With REF‐11, users can set up a file…

Chemical substructure searching: comparing three commercially available databases

A. Ben Wagner

Three commercially available chemical substructure databases are reviewed: Chemical Abstracts, Index Chemicus, and the SANSS file (Chemical Information System). Coverage and…

The impact of database searching on interlibrary loan — ‘eliminating the negative’

Bruce Connolly, Cheryl M. LaGuardia

These methods are proposed for use by database searchers in structuring online search sessions. The goal is to minimize the negative effects on interlibrary loan operations of…