Online Review: Volume 6 Issue 2

Databases in the marine sciences

Susan S. Starr

The serial coverage and indexing policies of Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA), Oceanic Abstracts, Biosis, and Georef were compared. Analyses indicated considerable…

Study of strategies used in online searching: 2. Positional Logic — an example of the importance of selecting the right Boolean operator

Betty K. Oldroyd, J.J. Schroder

In online searching, the positional logic capability has made it possible to combine terms together in any order, in a word, fragment, phrase, link, sentence, or citation…

A computer graphical tool for analyzing user reaction to video‐tex systems

Nadia Magnenat‐Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann, Philippe Bergeron

The INVIDO system is a graphical tool which was designed and implemented for studying user reactions to videotex systems. For different themes, including weather reporting, sport…

Online Information Retrieval Bibliography: Fifth Update

Donald T. Hawkins

This is the fifth annual update of the bibliography that was published as a supplement to the first issue of Online Review. It is also the second update of the concatenated…

News

ASIS student paper contest. The American Society for Information Science (ASIS) announces the 1982 Student Paper Contest. The Contest is designed to encourage information science…