Online Review: Volume 5 Issue 2

Developing databases for online information retrieval

Gwen Reveley Levine

The emergence of online databases represents a shift from providing a physical entity, a book or an article, to the more abstract concept of providing or transferring information…

An observational study of man‐computer interaction using an online bibliographic information retrieval system

Christine A. Baker, Kenneth D. Eason

This article reports a preliminary investigation into the man‐computer interaction (m‐c‐i) aspects of online searching. It describes the methodology developed for observing and…

Iranian Library of Medicine local computer network

B. Shahdad

In order to improve the status of biomedical communications in Iran, the Iranian Library of Medicine (ILM) embarked on a long term plan which also included computerization of…

Online information retrieval bibliography: Fourth update

Donald Hawkins

This is the fourth update to the bibliography that was published as a Supplement to the first issue of Online Review. Previous updates have appeared each year in the March issue…

Online user forum

Gerri G. Lawrence

More new user groups! Linda Phillips reports that the Rochester Online Users group boasts of 60 members. While the group is presently oriented in the science‐technology area the…

News

French take online into the schools. An announcement from MIDIST (Mission Interministerielle de l'Information Scientifique et Technique) in France gave a concrete example of the…