Online Review: Volume 8 Issue 1

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ASIS Annual Meeting. The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science was held from 2–6 October 1983, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, in Crystal City, Virginia…

Family Resources Database: a system design to meet information needs in an emerging discipline

Margaret J. Bodley

The Family Resources Database is produced by the National Council on Family Relations' (NCFR) Family Resource & Referral Center (FRRC). It would be impossible to discuss the…

Experiences with online literature searching in a water‐related subject field: Aqualine, Biosis, CA Search and Pascal, compared using the ESA/lnformation Retrieval System

M.W. de Jong‐Hofman, H.H. Siebers

In support of an environmental research program in the field of water quality management at the Delft University of Technology, an exhaustive literature search was carried out…

Numeric databases in the sciences

S.V. Meschel

Compilation of numeric data has been of interest to mankind since ancient times. Collections of astronomic observations permitted the production of systematic calendars for great…