Online Review: Volume 5 Issue 5

The management of online resources: problems and opportunities

D.A. Lewis, R. Adkins

This paper sets out some general views of online management. It considers the basic concept of management and the resources needed; then, how online services are managed within…

Online implementation of the CA SEARCH file and the CAS Registry Nomenclature File

M.V. Callahan, P.F. Rusch

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) produces a variety of chemical information in both printed and computer readable form. Although the information content of CAS computer‐readable…

An investigation of recall in the ABI/INFORM database when selecting by journal

Bruce L. Keck

Recall was investigated in the ABI/INFORM database in the four key Fields through which the same journal might be selected: Journal Code (JC), Journal Title (JN), CODEN (CO), and…

Is EURONET C.C.L. a ‘common’ command language?

C. Verheijen‐Voogd

Since the availability of EURONET DIANE at the beginning of 1980, users are confronted with the EURONET Common Command Language. The strong desire of users to practice only one…

Overlap among environmental databases

Betty Miller

When the EPB (Environmental Periodicals Bibliography) file became available through DIALOG in 1978, it joined Enviroline and Pollution to become the third general environmental…

National courses in online retrieval in the Netherlands

K. van der Meer, L.M. Koster, D.L. Brand‐de Heer

The advent of online information systems has been followed by gradual improvements in both their accessibility and ease of operation. This and the low cost of machine‐searching…

News

Three leading US information companies form new research firm. A new information company, the Amicus Research Group, Ltd., has been formed as a joint venture of Berul Associates…