Aslib Proceedings: Volume 23 Issue 10
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ASLIB SYMPOSIUM ON PROBLEMS OF USING EXTERNAL INFORMATION SERVICES June 1971: CHAIRMAN'S INTRODUCTION
F.W. MATTHEWSThe last two Aslib meetings which I have attended I found perhaps a little disturbing. The one before the last was the Annual Conference of the Chemical Group and, although I was…
SDI: SOME ECONOMIC AND ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS
H.F. DAMMERSIn the context of the present symposium it would seem appropriate that I should deal specifically with the economic aspects of Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI…
PROBLEMS OF USING EXTERNAL SERVICES FOR RETROSPECTIVE SEARCH
F. ROBINSONThis paper is based on a study made of the possible use of CA Condensates for retrospective search purposes in ICI. Such a study is often a good way of defining what the problems…
PROBLEMS OF The INDIVIDUAL USER
P. LEGGATETo avoid confusion, I will start by saying that I intend to use the word ‘user’ in a different contest to that in which it has been used by Dr Matthews and other speakers…
INSPEC
D.H. BARLOWMost of you have probably heard of INSPEC, but there are many people who do not seem to know the full range of what we do, so I thought I would just take a few minutes first of…
EXTERNAL INFORMATION SERVICES AND The SMALL USER
W.E. BATTENA plea that I heard during this morning's session was that nobody had really addressed himself to the small user; everybody had been talking about the big user of the data base…
ATTITUDES IN PROMOTING AND USING EXTERNAL SDI SERVICES
A.E. CAWKELLMany scientists have routine information‐seeking habits, which probably have not been subjected to the scientific scrutiny which they devote to their own subject. Neither they…
The INTERNATIONAL FOOD INFORMATION SERVICE
J. NEWTONIn the previous papers, we heard some of views of the ‘large’ users and we heard something about the approach of the ‘large’ suppliers to both the ‘large’ and the ‘small’ users…
A REVIEW OF The MAIN PROBLEMS
B.C. VICKERYAll that I wish to do in this talk is to set in some context some of the things that have already been said today, and add a few comments of my own, in order to provide a basis…