Aslib Proceedings: Volume 44 Issue 6
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BIOSIS: its agricultural coverage and products
Nigel RobinsonBIOSIS is the world's largest abstracting and indexing service for biological and biomedical research. An independent not‐for‐profit organization, BIOSIS was founded in 1926 and…
CD‐ROMs and beyond: buying databases sensibly?
Tony McSeánThe purpose of this paper is to examine the reasons why CD‐ROM technology has made such a widespread impact on libraries in the science, technology and medicine (STM) sectors, and…
Agriculture, food and biosciences information from SilverPlatter
John NA ReidSilverPlatter, a major publisher on CD‐ROM, expects to offer over 100 titles on this medium by the end of 1992. Agriculture, Food and related Biosciences products account for…
CAIN, a Computer Assisted INdexing system
John GoodierThe CAIN indexing system was demonstrated. This paper gives some details of the operation of the system and some comments on the practical and theoretical background are made.
UPDATE: the farming and countryside index of the Welsh Agricultural College
Ann EvansUpdate was started by the library staff of the Welsh Agricultural College (WAC) in 1974 to fill the gap in the information services provided as there was no comparable system to…
Information UK 2000: Education and training
Sylvia P WebbAs a participant in the original research for the British Library's IUK 2000 project, my general brief at that time was to look at the influences on, and developments in the…
Information UK 2000 The world we'll be living in
Patricia StoatInformation UK 2000 is a stimulating and valuable study which ranges widely over the issues confronting information professionals as we approach the 21st century. Parts of the…