Online Review: Volume 8 Issue 5

News

Three major US corporations have joined forces to establish a new videotex venture. The companies involved are CBS, IBM and retailers Sears Roebuck. The partners have not yet…

Mead Data Central: positioned for the future

Jack W. Simpson

From a modest start‐up in Ohio only fifteen years ago, with the initial LEXIS legal research service, Mead Data Central (MDC) has grown and evolved into multiple services using a…

Four for text handling: Notebook, IBR, Bibliography, Footnote

If you are a researcher, a lawyer, a consultant, a student, or a technical information specialist, the four packages reviewed in this article will put your microcomputer's…

Grammatik: beyond spelling

The Grammatik package is designed to help writers with their punctuation, grammar and use of words. It spots hackneyed phrases, checks for redundant use of words, lengthy…

Communications for the Apple II: TermExec

The TermExec package makes it easy to contact remote databases and other computers that are to be reached via telephone. Dialing and logging onto remote systems are set up as…

Searching vocabularies: a developing category of online search tools

Anne B. Piternick

Vocabularies such as thesauri and lists of subject headings have tended in the past to have been regarded as ‘indexing vocabularies’ rather than ‘searching vocabularies.’ Online…

PSI: a portable self‐contained intermediary for access to bibliographic database systems

Michael A. Shepherd, Carolyn Waiters

A portable self‐contained intermediary which provides the non‐expert user a single command language for access to multiple bibliographic database systems is under development at…

A cognitive view of three selected online search facilities

Peter Ingwersen

This paper discusses the impact of three selected command language facilities on the man—system interface in relation to operational online information retrieval (IR). The concept…