Online and CD-Rom Review: Volume 19 Issue 2

CURRENCY OF INFORMATION FOUND IN SILVERPLATTER'S MEDLINE CDROM

Vincent Maes

To assess the currency of descriptions found in SilverPlatter's Medline CDROM edition precisely, all the descriptions from 1993 were studied. The objectives were not only to…

GERMAN DATABASES FOR NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL USERS, USING ENVIRONMENTAL DATABASES AS AN EXAMPLE

Kristina Voigt, Eleonore Poetzsch, Martina Reich, Thomas Schultz‐Kruitisch, Engelbert Zass

1. Introduction to the German Language Session. The German session (rather, the German language session) at the 18th International Online Conference in London, 6–8 December 1994…

DO‐IT‐YOURSELF CENSUS DATA USING NEW CENSUS CDROM PRODUCTS

Sylvia Andrews

Demographers, researchers and US Census data users can join the ranks of the do‐it‐yourselfers and create customised demographic tabulations and research data, using three new…

SOCIAL SCIENCE, HUMANITIES, NEWS AND GENERAL (ISSUE 5)

Martha E. Williams, Ellen Sutton, Brett Sutton

This is the fifth article on Social Science, Humanities, News and General (SSH) databases in a continuing series of articles summarising and commenting on new database products…

INVISIBLE THESAURI: THE YEAR 2000

Jessica L. Milstead

Reports of the death of controlled vocabularies and indexing in the age of full‐text retrieval have turned out to be somewhat exaggerated. We quickly found that the old ‘garbage…

THE INFORMATION SOCIETY

‘The Information Society’ was under discussion at the latest meeting of The Group of Seven (G7) industrialised nations: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the…

FROM THE INFORMATION SOCIETY SHOWCASE

An ‘information society showcase’ ran alongside the G7 conference in Brussels in February. Open to invitees only, it gave the chance to see leading edge applications from all…

NEWS ROUNDUP

Paul Blake

EC unveils it information industry vision. The European Union. has unveiled the latest stage of its programme to help the European information industry. The Info2000 programme…