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Searching With Menus, Carol Tenopir
Searching With Menus, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
BRS, DIALOG and OCLC's EPIC are three major online systems that provide menu searching in addition to their command interfaces. The menus used by these three systems are described.
The Most Popular Databases, Carol Tenopir
The Most Popular Databases, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Notes the proliferation of online databases in the last two decades and suggests publications which can help librarians to make decisions about choosing a database. Discussion of information in the book "Directory of Online Databases," by Carlos Cuadra and "Computer-Readable Databases: A Directory and Data Sourcebook," with a preface by Martha E. Williams; Mention of the most popular databases, including MEDLINE, NEXIS, ERIC, World Patents, Predicasts files, Chemical Abstracts (CA) File, CA Search, and Financial Information Service; Discussion of databases most used by academic, corporate, and law libraries; View that popular databases are sought after because they have been in …
Wilson Branches Out, Carol Tenopir
Wilson Branches Out, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article reports that by March or April 1991, all of the H. W. Wilson Company databases will become available on the Bibliographic Retrieval Service (BRS) online system. After seven years of exclusivity on WILSONLINE, the Wilson databases are branching out and BRS is only the first extension. Starting in 1986, Wilson offered ways to access electronic versions of its indexes. Many libraries have purchased selected Wilson indexes on CD-ROM to emphasize end-user searching. BRS implementation of the Wilson files is planned in stages throughout 1991. Stage 1 will bring up Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, Applied Science & Technology …