Online Review: Volume 11 Issue 2

News

Data‐Star opens North American office. Data‐Star is to start marketing and providing support for its services in North America on 30 March of this year. The first American office…

Survey of online databases, database producers and database hosts in The Netherlands

Many people complain of a lack of coverage of European matters in online available databases. Although this is still true for many areas, a recent survey in The Netherlands shows…

Where full‐text is viable

PL Cotton

Definitions can be tedious and pedantic, but I have noticed recently that standard industry terms I thought I was clear about have been used in unexpected ways. Being relatively…

The indexing of the literature of online searching: a comparison of ERIC and LISA

Alison Verbeck, MaryEllen Sievert

A comparison of the indexing on Eric and Lisa of the three journals devoted to online searching, Online, Online Review and Database, revealed some differences, but a greater…

Full text information retrieval software for use in government administration (a selection procedure and process)

Naomi Reginiano‐Peterson, Israel Silbergeld

A project, involving selection procedures for choosing information retrieval software (full text) for government administration oriented applications and users, was undertaken by…