Online Review: Volume 9 Issue 5

News

AIP and FIZ Karlsruhe renew agreement. The American Institute of Physics (AIP), and Fachinformationszentrum Energie, Physik, Mathematik GmbH of Karlsruhe (FIZ Karlsruhe) in the…

Developments at Dialog

Joyce Hoskinson Camp

The roots of Dialog Information Services are traced with a description of the origins and past activities. Discussion describes the organizational groupings which have…

Integration of menu retrieval and Boolean retrieval from a full‐text database

C.R. Watters, M.A. Shepherd, E.W. Grundke, P. Bodorik

Although the Boolean combination of keywords and/or subject codes is the predominant access method for the retrieval of passages from full‐text databases, menu access is an…

Heuristics for online information retrieval: a typology and preliminary listing

Stephen P. Harter, Anne Rogers Peters

At this point in its short history, online information retrieval possesses many of the characteristics of an art. In spite of much that is logical and orderly about it, there are…