Online Review: Volume 7 Issue 5

News

Ex‐Indian Head man for Software Group. Ronald P. Quake has been appointed President of The Software Group Inc. Mr Quake was formerly President of Indian Head Inc.'s Information…

Possibility for intelligent feedback in online searching

Pirkko Pietiläinen

Number of references containing the input term (set size) is the only feedback the searcher generally receives in most online information retrieval systems. There exist however…

Why secondary services will survive and thrive

Ronald G. Dunn

The information industry operates today in a rapidly changing environment. In the space of only a few years, technological developments have led to fundamental and probably…

Evolution of a secondary service to an information supermarket

Herbert B. Landau

Engineering Information, Inc. (Ei) was established in 1884 and remained a relatively traditional print‐based abstracting and indexing (A&I) service for over half a century…

Online searching and the print product: impact or interaction?

Inez L. Sperr

A survey of abstracting and indexing services was conducted to determine the extent to which they have detected an impact of online availability on the subscriptions to their…

Future of secondary services

M. Lynne Neufeld

The secondary services have long been recognized as a vital link in the information transfer chain [Figure 1] that serves to diffuse knowledge from the scholar/ researcher to an…