Online Review: Volume 14 Issue 5

Cost comparison of online searching in four hosts: Data‐Star, Dialog, ESA‐IRS and STN

Pirkko Eskola, Eero Sormunen

The total costs of online searching in four hosts — Data‐Star, Dialog, ESA‐IRS, and STN International — were evaluated in a study conducted at the Information Service of the…

Dialog business databases: an informal survey of prices

Mark L. Robinson

The formulae used to price online databases have traditionally been comprised of three components: database connect time, per record charges and communications costs. Business…

Knowledge‐based abstracting

William J. Black

Although the structure of texts and the way they are produced and understood are active areas for research in a range of disciplines — linguistics, psychology, artificial…

Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/eb045005. When citing the article, please…