Online Review: Volume 6 Issue 3

Important items in the database: an investigation of two methods of identification

CD. Hurt

This paper examines the problem of selectivity within the database and, in particular, the problem of identification of important literature. An examination was conducted on…

Installation and operational experiences with MACCS (Molecular Access System)

D.J. Polton

Computerised chemical substructure searching began at Shell Research Sitting‐bourne during the 1960s with a file of chemical structures coded in string form using the IUPAC…

Online document ordering systems of online vendors

Gisela I. Roth

The commands and features of four selected online document ordering systems are compared, and potentially useful features lacking in these systems are suggested. Three advantages…

Information science research, the National Library of Medicine and the public/private sectors

Martha E. Williams

Two trends, the decline in funding for information science research and the accelerating contention between the public and private sectors in the information field, pose a threat…

A preliminary analysis of overlap between CAB and Tropag

Peter Thorpe

A preliminary study of the overlap between the CAB Abstracts and Tropag (Abstracts on Tropical Agriculture) files, based on ten selected searches is reported. The results indicate…

News

Through a new educational programme The New York Times Information Service is making available online access time at a nominal charge to graduate schools of law, library science…