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Database Subsets, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Recommends locally held databases to librarians who want to allow patrons to conduct database searches themselves, but are hesitant to commit the time and resources necessary for direct end user access to online systems. Characteristics of database subsets; Different kinds of database subsets available; Benefits of database subsets for librarians and publishers; Drawbacks of using database subsets.

Online Searching With A Microcomputer: Downloading Issues, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Downloading the results from online searching onto a microcomputer disk is one of the major benefits of online database searching using a microcomputer. Surveys show that downloaded citations are being used in a variety of ways including: editing and merging citations from several searches creating inhouse databases, or preparing edited results for resale.

Although it has not been tested in court these uses may violate copyright law under the compilation, derivative works, or original work provisions. In addition, many database producers include prohibitions against downloading in the terms and conditions of your contract with the database vendor. Other publishers have …

Searching Harvard Business Review Online... Lessons In Searching A Full Text Database, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

HBRO was one of the first journals available online in full text on BRS and DIALOG search services. HBRO came online on BRS in the summer of 1982 and on DIALOG in the summer of 1983. John Wiley & Sons, Electronic Publishing Division, distributes HBRO, but the contents of the database mirror the printed journal and are wholly the responsibility of the Harvard Business Review staff at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University.

A full text journal on systems that were designed originally for bibliographic citation retrieval offers some interesting problems for the searcher. As of fall 1984 …