Online Review: Volume 13 Issue 2

Magazines in full text: uses and search strategies

Carol Tenopir, Man Evena Shu

Research on why people would use general interest magazine articles online in full‐text is identifying a variety of possible uses including document location, browsing, and fact…

Multiple use of primary full text information — a publisher's perspective

David P. Martinsen, Richard A. Love, Lorrin R. Garson

Mounting primary full text information into an online database requires journal text be segmented into the proper fields and indexed. The American Chemical Society keyboards its…

Current state of full text primary information online with recommendations for the future

John A. Hearty, Valerie K. Rohrbaugh

During the 1980s, database vendors mounted more full text primary literature online. Users, however, have not adopted these files for use at the same rate. There are several…

Primary FTDs for the end user: new roles for the information professional

Ruth A. Pagell

Researchers are now increasingly able to identify and retrieve information without the need to move from their own PC, bypassing the library and its staff. The number of full text…

Future enhancements for full text databases

Wendelin Detemple

It has taken about twenty years to develop and implement the wide range of public databases offered via host services today. In most cases the information available is…

News

General Breaking the language barrier. Language and time are probably the two biggest headaches for a company that trades information across national borders. In search of a pain…