Online and CD-Rom Review: Volume 17 Issue 6

EVALUATION OF ELECTRONIC DATABASES, PART II: TESTING CDROM PRODUCTS

Charles Oppenheim, Veronica Harry

In an earlier paper (Harry & Oppenheim 1993), we described the criteria that we had developed for a standard test procedure for CDROM reviews. In this paper, we describe some…

TWO CDROM PRICING ISSUES

Michael E.D. Koenig

There are a number of issues affecting the pricing of CDROM technologies, but two of them are both contentious and could potentially have a serious impact upon the field. Their…

NEW DATABASE PRODUCTS: BUSINESS AND LAW (ISSUE 2)

Martha E. Williams, Sarah H. McDougal

This is the second article on Business and Law (BSL) Databases in a continuing series of articles summarizing and commenting on new database products. Two companion articles, one…

A BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS LOOK

Stella Keenan

It is now a year since this column was launched and a number of arrows have been shot in the air … aimed at hitting the target labelled the year 2000. In the first column (vol. 17…

INFORMATION MAPPING: A GLIMPSE AT THE FUTURE

Tom Koch

In previous Search Strategies published in Online & CDROM Review, searchers from different countries and professions were given a question to answer, a budget of £50 and a time in…

WHAT PRICE MARKET RESEARCH?

Richard Poynder

In an article to published in this month's Information World Review, Trevor Fenwick, the Managing Director of Euromonitor, argues that the larger online hosts do not understand…