Online Review: Volume 13 Issue 1

Readability of documentation for end user searchers

Debora Shaw

Measures of readability, which assess the expected difficulty in reading a specific text, provide one means of assessing the quality of documentation for computer‐based systems…

Quality of indexing in library and information science databases

Clara M. Chu, Isola Ajiferuke

The study compares the quality of indexing in library and information science databases (Library Literature (LL), Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), and Information…

Medline on CD‐ROM: a comparison

Suzanne Bakker, Ans Bleeker, Jan van der Burg, Joop Dijkman, Arjan Hogenaar, Gijsbert van Ramshorst

Recently, several versions of Medline on CD‐ROM have become available — Bibliomed, BRS, Compact Cambridge, Dialog, Ebsco and SilverPlalter. They have been tested by the Biomedical…

LISA on CD‐ROM: an evaluation

R.J. Hartley

This review refers to LISA (Library and Information Science Abstracts) on CD‐ROM which is available from SilverPlatter Information Ltd. The version of the software used was…

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Telecoms Ministers get ready for 1992. An important step towards the Common Market of 1992 was taken last summer by the Council of Telecommunications Ministers, the first formal…