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A Second Look At Firstsearch, Carol Tenopir
A Second Look At Firstsearch, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
OCLC's FirstSearch end user online system is used by almost 2,000 libraries worldwide. The OCLC FirstSearch database offerings, including full text, document delivery, prices, easy searching and pilot projects, are discussed.
Connect Time Variations, Carol Tenopir
Connect Time Variations, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Thee is little standardization in online rates, and database vendors continue to change pricing to balance concerns of users, producers and vendors. Some services have replaced connect-time pricing with information-based pricing.
Standardization Across Databases, Carol Tenopir
Standardization Across Databases, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Online data bases provide some facilities for multifile searching, but more standardization among separate data bases is necessary. Options for standardizing fields are discussed, and standardization efforts by Dialog and other data base distributors are reviewed.
Quality In Distribution Channels, Carol Tenopir
Quality In Distribution Channels, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Discusses how quality relates to the information distribution channels of databases, with emphasis on the links between the database content or producer and the users. Choices for access; Assuring quality; Tendencies and prospects; Progress.