Online Review: Volume 5 Issue 4

Factors affecting future online services

Audrey Clayton

Technological advances have resulted in the exponential growth of online services over the past few years and are predicted to provide ever‐increasing capabilities. However…

The impact of online services on subscriptions to printed publications

F.W. Lancaster, Herbert Goldhor

A survey was conducted among academic and special libraries to determine the extent to which these libraries have discontinued subscriptions to printed abstracting and indexing…

Matching users and user languages in information retrieval

Charles T. Meadow

A review is made of research in the design and use of languages for computer programming, with emphasis on one of its specialized applications, information retrieval, and on the…

Effects of online bibliographic searching on scientists' information style

Alan E. Bayer, Gerald Jahoda

Industrial and academic users of online bibliographic searching over a year's time did not generally diminish their amount of use of other traditional manual means of information…

ONTAP‐ERIC: a critical view

William J. Jackson

ONTAP ERIC was designed by Dialog Information Systems to provide online training and practice for database searchers. Documentation provided by Dialog lists four purposes for the…

Online user forum

Gerri G. Lawrence

ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources is designed to share educational information, innovations and development with educational practitioners and information scientists…

Spotlight on a training centre

The famous German poet Heine once said that in Holland everything happens fifty years later. He may have been right in many cases, but in one respect Holland is bang up to date…

News

New Derwent representation in North America. Effective mid July, 1981, Derwent Publications Limited will be represented in the USA and Canada by a new company: