Online Review: Volume 1 Issue 1
Table of contents
News
We hope to make this column a means to communicate information about on‐line retrieval of all kinds. If you have any news or information concerning on‐line searching or systems…
Telecommunication terminology
Any field very quickly develops its own jargon which presents quite a barrier to a newcomer. In this issue, we tackle the telecommunications terminology which has invaded the…
Search corner
This section will present tips on Online searching, sample searches on various data bases, and search problems that our readers have found particularly challenging. We encourage…
On‐line update
On‐line update combines a bibliography of recent on‐line articles with a search example from a data base producer showing techniques especially useful in searching its data base…
User education and training
A number of data base producers are offering or developing training schemes designed to help on‐line users acquaint themselves with the construction of their data bases. In this…
Model for the on‐line management of knowledge transfer
Donald J. HillmanA distinction is made between information retrieval and knowledge transfer, in terms of which the latter activity assumes a much greater degree of conceptual organization. It is…
Developments in interactive on‐line television systems and Teletext information services in the home
A.E. CawkellA brief technical description is given of Teletext and Viewdata developments in the United Kingdom. These systems use modified domestic television receivers to receive pages of…
Chronicles of an information company
Patricia FergusonThe birth and growth of a US West Coast information company is chronicled from its beginning as a part‐time partnership to its status five years later as a small but profitable…
Feature evalution of a full‐text information‐retrieval system
J.R. RinewaltEvaluations of on‐line information‐retrieval systems have been largely dependent upon monitoring of users' searches and the cooperation of users in interviews and questionnaires…
Searching linear files on‐line
Thomas HickeyTwo types of linear on‐line search have been implemented on a data base of 100,000 INSPEC records, and compared with an inverted search program on the same file. It was found that…
On‐line data base coverage of the on‐line information‐retrieval literature
Donald T. Hawkins, Betty MillerThe coverage of the literature on on‐line retrieval systems by eight major machine‐readable data bases was determined. A search profile executed on these data bases produced 397…