Online and CD-Rom Review: Volume 22 Issue 3
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DESIGNING INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR USER ABILITIES AND TASKS: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY
Bryce AllenWith the many choices that can be built into information systems, it is possible to customize such systems for users. This customization may be based on the tasks that users are…
DATASTAR WEB: A COMPARISON WITH “CLASSIC” DATASTAR COMMAND LANGUAGE SEARCHING
Anne L. BarkerThis paper compares and contrasts online searching on DataStar, a major European host now owned by The Dialog Corporation, using the “Classic” command language, with access via…
NEW DATABASE PRODUCTS: SOCIAL SCIENCE, HUMANITIES, NEWS, AND GENERAL (ISSUE 11)
Martha E. Williams, Daniel E. BurgardThis is the eleventh article on social science, humanities, news, and general databases in a continuing series of articles summarizing and commenting on new database products. Two…
NEW DATABASE PRODUCTS: BUSINESS AND LAW (ISSUE 11)
Martha E. Williams, Harry A. GaylordThis is the eleventh article on business and law (BSL) databases in a continuing series of articles summarizing and commenting on new database products. Two companion articles…
NEW CD‐ROMs IN BRIEF
Account Ability. A CD‐ROM version of a course which enables non‐financial managers, consultants and professionals understand and use financial statements. Published by Xebec and…
ISSUES FOR THE LATE 1990s AND FUTURE CONCERNS
Dick KaserEditor's note: At the 40th Anniversary Conference held in February, 1998, the Executive Directors of NFAIS (National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services…
BEYOND THE HYPE
Brian McKennaColloquium in Oxford. A wide‐ranging debate about the impact of the new technologies of connectivity on Higher Education, libraries, and the publishing industry took place in the…
THE HUMAN FACTOR
Brian McKennaHorns. Academic publishers (and academics who publish) — especially those engaged in journal production — still confront a major dilemma thrown up by the much‐trumpeted Great…
PUSH TECHNOLOGY: SHORTCUTTING THE INFORMATION MAZE
Tracey StanleySearching for information on the World Wide Web can often be a tedious and time‐consuming business. The combined problems of search tools with unsophisticated interfaces, poorly…
NEWS
Three million by 2000. Internet commerce in Europe will have at least doubled by the turn of the century according to a new report issued by Datamonitor. At the present time the…