Online Review: Volume 4 Issue 2
Table of contents
U.S. Government publications: their value, online accessibility and availability for international information needs
Bernice S. UsdaneThe Federal Government of the United States is the world's most prolific publisher. How is the international online specialist going to acquire the publications needed from this…
End user education: a design study
Arthur W. Elias, Nancy Vaupel, David LingwoodThe education and training function of a non‐profit, discipline specialized database producer will be traced and comments offered as to its contribution to end user objectives…
STAIRS search strategy: ideas and opinions
Karen Takle QuinnThis article concentrates on the practical everyday aspects of search strategy, specifically offering ideas and comments on search strategies for STAIRS users.
A review of Telidon development
Dorothy PhillipsTelidon, a second generation videotex system developed in Canada, was announced in August 1978. Since that time developments have occurred in planning field trials, developing…
Creative searching in a current affairs database
Barbara J. WolfIt seems neither hasty, presumptuous nor bold to state that databases are now a permanent part of today's information retrieval world. The tremendous growth of the information…
Online user forum
Gerri G. LawrenceJust how do Online User Groups provide continuing education in order to cope with all the new and updated information, training, hardware changes, cost and pricing issues, new…
News
New field for Infomart. Infomart, SDC's agent in Canada, recently announced that it had entered the field of electronic publishing with an influx of $6 million from two of…