Online Review: Volume 9 Issue 4

News

First Australian Online Information Conference. ‘Information Online 86’, the First Australian Online Information Conference and Exhibition, to be held at the Hilton International…

Company profile — Information Access Company

Blodwen Tarter

Information Access Company was formed in 1976 and, at that time identified more than 400 publications as sources for information covering many general interest subjects. To…

STATUS:free text retrieval

STATUS is an extremely powerful and useful database management package. It offers very rapid response time for searches and provides for storage of free text entries. However…

Transfer of the Chemical Information System (CIS) to the private sector

Sarah Kadec, Antonio Jover

During fiscal year 1984, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) performed a series of reviews of the EPA‐NIH Chemical Information System which resulted in the transfer of…

University faculty use of computerized databases: an assessment of needs and resources

Christine L. Borgman, Donald O. Case, Dorothy Ingebretsen

We have conducted a study of academic faculty use of databases for research, their need for evaluative guides to databases, and the appropriateness of currently‐available guides…