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Database Producers Go Online, Carol Tenopir
Database Producers Go Online, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Relates the expansion by several major producers of general interest databases to becoming online vendors. IAC, EBSCO, and UMI joining Wilson as online purveyors of their own content; Their use of client/server technology, Z39.50 compliance, graphical user interfaces, access over the Internet, and the use of the World Wide Web (WWW) for enhanced document delivery; Detailed description of each vendors' databse.
Knight-Ridder’S Shopping Spree, Carol Tenopir
Knight-Ridder’S Shopping Spree, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Reports on Knight-Ridder's expansion of its role in the information world. Purchase of CARL Corporation and UnCover Company; Background information on Knight-Ridder and CARL Corporation and UnCover; International opportunities; Minority investments.
Online Images On Stn, Carol Tenopir
Online Images On Stn, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Chemical Journals of the American Chemical Society has increased the usefulness of its online files by adding images to the ASCII text. Instructions are presenting for searching the STN International network and downloading information.
Changes And Choices In The Online Year, Carol Tenopir
Changes And Choices In The Online Year, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
The influence of the Internet and the introduction of alternative search engines, alternative interfaces and new pricing methods were major changes in the online database industry in 1994. Other trends included the development of integrated information systems.
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.
Target, Freestyle, Win: Searching Takes On A New Look, Carol Tenopir
Target, Freestyle, Win: Searching Takes On A New Look, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Compares three new search techniques available on major online systems: DIALOG's Target, Mead's Freestyle and West's WIN. Their advantages over their Boolean precursors; Details of what they each offer.
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.
Hot Topics For The New Year, Carol Tenopir
Hot Topics For The New Year, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Major issues at the Online/CD-ROM '93 conference included the national information infrastructure, Internet, the CD-ROM market, document delivery and new search systems for online data bases.
Natural Language Searching With Win, Carol Tenopir
Natural Language Searching With Win, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Examines WESTLAW, one of the first major commercial online systems to embrace both natural-language input and partial-match searching. It is the computer-assisted legal research arm of West Publishing Company. WESTLAW's start online as a bibliographic and synopsis legal research service; Addition of full text; Other additions; Retrieval based on commands and Boolean logic; When to choose the WIN interface; More.
Choices For Electronic Reference, Carol Tenopir
Choices For Electronic Reference, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Libraries should provide just as many of the electronic media reference sources as they can afford. They are obligated to be current, to offer the best possible source regardless of medium, and to increase constituent online literacy.
Moving Toward Quality, Carol Tenopir
Moving Toward Quality, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Data base searchers have begun a movement to demand improved quality in online data bases, and some cooperative responses from producers and systems have been received. Some companies are using Total Quality Management programs, and others have developed systems for users to report problems.
Familiar Faces, New Places, Carol Tenopir
Familiar Faces, New Places, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Data base industry developments in 1993 include the launch of Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals and the 'Gale Directory of Databases.' Knight-Ridder has acquired Data-Star, and CompuServe is taking over Knowledge Index.
Author’S Privilege, Carol Tenopir
Author’S Privilege, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Important events in the use of electronic resources in libraries from 1983 to 1993 include the development of end user search services, test retrieval software, CD-ROM data bases and full-text data bases.
Flat-Fee Pricing And Other Choices, Carol Tenopir
Flat-Fee Pricing And Other Choices, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Libraries that frequently use online databases have several options for controlling costs. Pricing options offered by online systems include flat fee per search and flat-fee pricing per year.
Online Searching With Internet, Carol Tenopir
Online Searching With Internet, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Librarians use Internet for its E-mail function and for remote access to online catalogs, electronic publications, databases and commercial online systems. The file transfer protocol allows transfer of information from another site.
Responsibilities Of Online Educators, Carol Tenopir
Responsibilities Of Online Educators, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Employers complain that recently trained online searchers are not sufficiently selective in using printing or downloading options. Students need more supervised instruction in economical searching strategies.
Eight Tips For Cost-Effective Searching, Carol Tenopir
Eight Tips For Cost-Effective Searching, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Eight tips for librarians for cost-effective online searching, some specific to one system and some more general, are presented. One suggestion is to use multiple search features.
Full Text On Cd-Rom, Carol Tenopir
Full Text On Cd-Rom, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Some 25% of CD-ROM databases contain some full text and this number is growing. Text is stored in ASCII files, which are machine-searchable, and image files, which are not. Some products contain a combination of both types of text. Books, documents and magazines are among the materials available.
Hybrid Databases, Carol Tenopir
Hybrid Databases, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
States that basic categories of online databases are less relevant as the trend moves toward mixed-type or hybrid databases. Hybrid databases combine one or more database types, such as bibliographic/full text, bibliographic/directory, directory/full text, etc. DIALOG; Mixing different types of records within a single searchable file; ABI/INFORM; PTS PROMPT; Health periodicals database; Search strategies.
Predicting The Future, Carol Tenopir
Predicting The Future, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Five factors will influence the online databases of the future: telecommunications developments, scanning and storage improvements, increasing database distribution options, user needs and demands, and changes in database production.
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 …
Librarians As An Online Sales Force, Carol Tenopir
Librarians As An Online Sales Force, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
The role of librarians in the online database market is discussed.
Online Without A Modem, Carol Tenopir
Online Without A Modem, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article introduces Faxtex, a series of database products by Searchcraft. Faxtex is being started for the purpose of leapfrogging over the primary three limitations in the industry namely, the need for a computer or a terminal, a modem and a password. Searchcraft's Faxtex service is a series of database products that have the potential to become the first truly mass-market, consumer-oriented database products. Faxtex requires only a touchtone phone to search textual databases. The user dials one of a series of 900 telephone numbers to connect to the Faxtex service. A combination of prerecorded and computer-synthesized voices leads the …
Five Years Into The Past... Five Years Into The Future, Carol Tenopir
Five Years Into The Past... Five Years Into The Future, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Examines the issues affecting online databases. Quality control; In-house databases; Changes in database visuals; Pricing policies; Market changes.
Change Or Crisis In The Database Industry?, Carol Tenopir
Change Or Crisis In The Database Industry?, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Discusses various factors responsible for transition in the database industry in the U.S. Changes in areas of business and science and technology databases; Changing trends of international buyouts and participation in information product in online services industry; Options for delivery of information products.
The Database Industry Today: Some Vendors’ Perspectives, Carol Tenopir
The Database Industry Today: Some Vendors’ Perspectives, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Discusses developments in the database industry in the U.S. as of February 1, 1984. Vendors accounting for major revenue and usage in the online searching business; Survey conducted by Downloading Subcommittee of the Information Industry Association; Print version of Management Contents database by Gale Research Inc.; Database service started by Knowledge Industry Publications Inc. and the American Society for Information Science.