Online Review: Volume 13 Issue 5

Using repetition to increase precision in files with large blocks of text

Emma Jean McKinin, Mary Ellen Sievert, E. Diane Johnson

Searchers need to develop a set of heuristics (a variety of problem solving tactics and operations) for searching full‐text databases. Those heuristics which have evolved for…

Strategy for computer‐aided searches for information about chemicals

Joachim Benz, Kristina Voigt, Wolfgang Mücke

To aid data retrieval when searching chemical databanks and databases, a strategy lor pre‐defined searches and optimal search paths has been developed, using graph theory. The…

‘Or else they're lovely liars’: online searchers in Australia

Alex Byrne

Online searchers in Australia were studied via a mailed questionnaire examining six sets of variables: backgrounds, experience, attitudes, behaviours, styles and satisfaction…

The design of browsing and berrypicking techniques for the online search interface

Marcia J. Bates

First, a new model of searching in online and other information systems, called ‘berrypicking’, is discussed. This model, it is argued, is much closer to the real behavior of…

News

Virus‐Blocker. A program called Virus‐Blocker has been developed by a West German company. Expert Informatik GmbH. There are versions in English and Dutch, as well as German. The…

Databases

Cuban biotechnology database. In the last few years, Cuba has made significant advancements in biotechnology and related fields — so much so that the Automated Information…