Online and CD-Rom Review: Volume 22 Issue 1
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THE BENEFITS OF SEARCHING EMBASE VERSUS MEDLINE FOR PHARMACEUTICAL INFORMATION
Cecelia M. BrownSearchers often avoid EMBASE due to its high cost compared to MEDLINE. However, this paper demonstrates that when searching for a variety of pharmaceutical information, retrieval…
PATENT INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET
Richard PoynderPATENTLY CLEAR According to information published on the Web site of the European Patent Office (http://www.european‐patent‐office.org/pi_ndex.htm), $20 000 million a year is…
NEW CD‐ROMS IN BRIEF
ALCONLINE A bibliographic database on alcohol and other drugs of abuse, produced by the Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and other Drugs & Medicines. Contains over 19…
COMPUTERS IN MEDICINE — PRESENT AND FUTURE
William D. JeansComputers have made wide inroads into the practice of medicine, sometimes insidiously and sometimes obviously. The insidious approach has been the use of computers and computer…
THREE ANGLES ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
Ben JeapesOne of the sessions at December's Online Information Meeting in London dealt with the Information Society: what it is, how it can come about and the implications for the people…
DOING BUSINESS ONLINE
ONLINE SELLING OFF THE SHELF The rest of the world is rapidly catching up with something the online industry has been doing for years — selling things online. A recent US…
NEWS ROUNDUP
THE KNIGHT AND THE MAID IN DIALOG Publishing lead times mean that we are probably the last information‐related publication in the world to report that MAID has bought…