Online Review: Volume 8 Issue 2

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Jannik Davidsen, The State and University Library, Aarhus, Denmark, died suddenly on 28 November 1983, aged forty‐two years. Jannik Davidsen was educated as a geologist with…

The literature of online information retrieval: an update

Donald T. Hawkins

A bibliometric study of the online retrieval literature, published in 1978, has been updated. The data are based on a recent bibliography containing 3337 references. The…

Information retrieval using ADABAS‐NATURAL (with applications for television and radio)

I. Silbergeld, P. Kutok

Text information retrieval systems fall into three main categories: full text, free vocabulary, controlled vocabulary. Using the software ADABAS and NATURAL, we developed and…

Chemical Abstracts' document delivery service

Stephen Rollins

In the Spring of 1981, Chemical Abstracts joined the growing number of commercial vendors who offer document delivery services. Chemical Abstracts is a welcome entry into this…