Online Review: Volume 9 Issue 3

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Report on the professional online database industry. CSP International have produced a report called, The Professional Online Database Industry which traces the industry's…

Usage and revenue data for the online database industry

Martha E. Williams

As the online database industry expands and matures, competition increases and the need for data to assist in strategic planning increases. Database producers, online vendors…

Staffing trends among US online database producers — longitudinal change and growth — 1982–1984

Glenn R. Lowry

This paper reports results of a two‐phase study of the size and composition of US online database production organizations. All US online database producers were surveyed, in 1982…

What do we really know about online searchers?

Trudi Bellardo

Many panel discussions and public presentations and miles of lines of print have been devoted in recent years to the question of what distinguishes a good online searcher from…

Iron and Steel Online search system

V. Balasubramanian, S. Bhattacharyya

This article discusses briefly the framework of system design, interrogation procedures and features of the Iron and Steel Online (Isoline) search system developed with the goal…