Online Review: Volume 6 Issue 2
Table of contents
Databases in the marine sciences
Susan S. StarrThe serial coverage and indexing policies of Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA), Oceanic Abstracts, Biosis, and Georef were compared. Analyses indicated considerable…
Study of strategies used in online searching: 2. Positional Logic — an example of the importance of selecting the right Boolean operator
Betty K. Oldroyd, J.J. SchroderIn online searching, the positional logic capability has made it possible to combine terms together in any order, in a word, fragment, phrase, link, sentence, or citation…
A computer graphical tool for analyzing user reaction to video‐tex systems
Nadia Magnenat‐Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann, Philippe BergeronThe INVIDO system is a graphical tool which was designed and implemented for studying user reactions to videotex systems. For different themes, including weather reporting, sport…
Online Information Retrieval Bibliography: Fifth Update
Donald T. HawkinsThis is the fifth annual update of the bibliography that was published as a supplement to the first issue of Online Review. It is also the second update of the concatenated…
News
ASIS student paper contest. The American Society for Information Science (ASIS) announces the 1982 Student Paper Contest. The Contest is designed to encourage information science…