Online Review: Volume 9 Issue 2

News

Linda Resnik named ASIS executive director. The American Society for Information Science (ASIS) has appointed Linda Resnik executive director of the society. Resnik, who assumed…

Comparison and evaluation of nine bibliographies/ bibliographic databases in the field of computer science

C.A.G. Konings

Seven bibliographies/bibliographic databases have been analysed as regards their subject area, list of scanned periodicals, article coverage and overlap. These bibliographies are…

Coal liquefaction case study: Impact, potential, forecast

Henri Dou, Parina Hassanaly

The use of databases and microcomputers enables almost anyone to analyse a scientific field. Forecasting scientific production is a way of estimating trends in various countries…

Full text database retrieval performance

Carol Tenopir

Complete texts of many journals are now available for online searching. Most of these full text databases have been made available on the same or similar search systems that…