Online Review: Volume 5 Issue 4
Table of contents
Factors affecting future online services
Audrey ClaytonTechnological advances have resulted in the exponential growth of online services over the past few years and are predicted to provide ever‐increasing capabilities. However…
The impact of online services on subscriptions to printed publications
F.W. Lancaster, Herbert GoldhorA survey was conducted among academic and special libraries to determine the extent to which these libraries have discontinued subscriptions to printed abstracting and indexing…
Matching users and user languages in information retrieval
Charles T. MeadowA review is made of research in the design and use of languages for computer programming, with emphasis on one of its specialized applications, information retrieval, and on the…
Effects of online bibliographic searching on scientists' information style
Alan E. Bayer, Gerald JahodaIndustrial and academic users of online bibliographic searching over a year's time did not generally diminish their amount of use of other traditional manual means of information…
ONTAP‐ERIC: a critical view
William J. JacksonONTAP ERIC was designed by Dialog Information Systems to provide online training and practice for database searchers. Documentation provided by Dialog lists four purposes for the…
Online user forum
Gerri G. LawrenceERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources is designed to share educational information, innovations and development with educational practitioners and information scientists…
Spotlight on a training centre
The famous German poet Heine once said that in Holland everything happens fifty years later. He may have been right in many cases, but in one respect Holland is bang up to date…
News
New Derwent representation in North America. Effective mid July, 1981, Derwent Publications Limited will be represented in the USA and Canada by a new company: