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Publication date: 1 April 1995

Annette Herholdt

In the past, the convergence and simultaneous appearance of technological innovation and change has brought about the means and the methods for accessing biomedical information…

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In the past, the convergence and simultaneous appearance of technological innovation and change has brought about the means and the methods for accessing biomedical information online. The situation has not changed but the means and the methods are themselves beginning to undergo innovation and change, mainly as a result of technological progress but also, most importantly, as a result of changing patterns of usage and new user groups. This paper will discuss various emerging technologies as the basis which will determine how biomedical data in electronic format, such as that held in the EMBASE database, could be accessed in the future. From the point of view of the database producer, the questions on this topic which have to be answered are, in order of importance: given an ideal world, what is the user wish‐list?; what are the new technologies and how do they affect our current products?; and, using this new technology, how can we make products which will meet the user wish‐list? It will be seen that the results of applying technological development to online access to biomedical data, or any other type of bibliographic data for that matter, will be transparent to the user, and that online searching for the end‐user will become easier than we could ever have imagined. What I will say is not an announcement of where EMBASE is heading over the next decade, but some speculation in the most general terms of where any bibliographic database could develop in this period Much depends on the simultaneous arrival on the information scene of mutually‐compatible technologies. Much also depends on the desires and preferences of the customers, for as much as they may malign us at times it is true that they are at the heart of our business.

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The Electronic Library, vol. 13 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-0473

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Publication date: 1 April 1993

Annette Herholdt

Developing and maintaining a competitive edge in the information business today will periodically require the timely and smooth transition from older to state‐of‐the‐art…

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Developing and maintaining a competitive edge in the information business today will periodically require the timely and smooth transition from older to state‐of‐the‐art technology. Central to the production of a commercially‐available database in the biomedical field is the speed with which it can be created and updated, particularly for access on the major hosts. It is therefore imperative that new production processes contribute positively to timely updating, and that the cost of implementing them is offset by new opportunities for enhancements and additional commercial exploitation of the database. The paper describes new production methods for the EMBASE database and the related issues associated with the implementation of these changes, in particular the way in which they affect data entry, indexing methods, quality and nature of indexing, and the currency of the database. New production methods have brought about the possibility of new products, such as a document delivery service, and these will also be discussed.

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The Electronic Library, vol. 11 no. 4/5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-0473

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Publication date: 1 March 1990

John Baker

Nottinghamshire County Libraries recently embarked on a new phase of automation with the replacement of their ageing Plessey SPC1B circulation system — possibly the last in the…

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Nottinghamshire County Libraries recently embarked on a new phase of automation with the replacement of their ageing Plessey SPC1B circulation system — possibly the last in the country. This serviced the five largest branch libraries in the Nottinghamshire system (which includes all the City libraries) and ran on the local authority ICL 2900 series mainframe computer which held books on loan and catalogue files. The priority for Nottinghamshire was to replace the system in those five libraries but the new system goes much further.

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VINE, vol. 20 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0305-5728

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Publication date: 1 May 1993

Online & CDROM Review here offers abstracts of the papers presented at the Second Southern African Online Information Meeting, held in Pretoria on 2–4 June 1993. The full…

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Online & CDROM Review here offers abstracts of the papers presented at the Second Southern African Online Information Meeting, held in Pretoria on 2–4 June 1993. The full Proceedings are published in a special edition of our sister journal, The Electronic Library, August/October 1993, vol. 11, no. 4/5.

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Online and CD-Rom Review, vol. 17 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1353-2642

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Publication date: 1 April 1987

TINlib has been on the market for two years and is in use in some 30 libraries in the UK for cataloguing and retrieval. The system was developed by Information Management &…

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TINlib has been on the market for two years and is in use in some 30 libraries in the UK for cataloguing and retrieval. The system was developed by Information Management & Engineering Ltd (IME), a British company specialising in database design. In November 1987, a subsidiary to IME was formed, called Information Made Easy (which can be rather dubiously shortened to IM Easy), which handles the marketing, sales and support of IME products in the UK. The system is also marketed in Europe and North America, and over 150 systems are now in use worldwide.

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VINE, vol. 17 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0305-5728

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