Online Review: Volume 2 Issue 2

News

P.W. Williams

Online Information Meeting — 1978 London, December 5–7,1978. Following the successful meeting held in London last year and reported in the March 1978 issue of this journal, Online…

Search corner

At a Ringdoc user meeting in London, England on April 10 and 11 this year, Dr. Gruch and Dr. Nubling of the German pharmaceutical company E. Merck presented a paper comparing a…

Euronet Hosts —: The space documentation service, Frascati, Italy

Some 30 online services are planned to link up to the Euronet network, when this becomes operational in early 1979. Some of these services are already well established, operating…

Online User Groups

Tom Haggerty, Leader of the Washington, D.C. Online Users' Group, chaired an Online User Workshop at NICE II — the Information Industry Association sponsored meeting in…

Letter to the editor

Loll Rolling

As a member of the Editorial Board, I wish to publicly disagree with Harry Collier's ‘letter to the editor’ published in the December 1977 issue of Online Review.

An attempt to compare EMCS with TOXLINE

H. Schirner, J.P. Lorent

16 queries, performed on the two systems, resulted in 247 unique relevant references from EMCS and 559 from TOXLINE. The overlap varied considerably, from 6 to 50%. It is…

AID, an Associative Interactive Dictionary for online searching

Tamas E. Doszkocs

The paper describes the prototype Associative Interactive Dictionary. (AID) system for search strategy formulation on a large operational free text on‐line bibliographic retrieval…

Computer‐aided searching in the INSPEC database: Analysis of subject indexing by INSPEC and the resulting cost and efficiency as related to various search strategies

M.W. de Jong‐Hofman

The first part of the paper describes the results of an extensive search into two factors which effect, to a high degree, the efficiency of online information retrieval: (i) the…