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Publication date: 1 April 1992

John J. Regazzi

Growth in the primary engineering literature has been accompanied by a boom in electronic secondary information‐retrieval products and services which can access information that…

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Growth in the primary engineering literature has been accompanied by a boom in electronic secondary information‐retrieval products and services which can access information that is increasingly current, specific, and inclusive. While these services provide more options and solutions for researchers, the perception of an overwhelming array of hard‐to‐use electronic searching alternatives has been confusing. Users want an electronic searching system simple enough for library patrons to use, while at the same time sophisticated enough to meet the demands of the professional researcher. Adding to this challenge are the economic realities of the marketplace. Diverse corporate and academic research centers around the world have different levels of budgetary constraints. Recognizing these disparities, Engineering Information Inc. (Ei) has fashioned a range of research tools that can be used individually or in combination to offer maximum budgetary flexibility to its global constituency. Customers wanted from these various tools the opportunity to easily access the most cost‐efficient method dictated by the needs of a particular search.

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Library Hi Tech, vol. 10 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0737-8831

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Publication date: 1 January 1985

John J. Regazzi

An easy‐to‐use online information system, WILSONLINE currently provides access to 14 Wilson databases—19 by the end of 1985. The system has undergone extensive test site…

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An easy‐to‐use online information system, WILSONLINE currently provides access to 14 Wilson databases—19 by the end of 1985. The system has undergone extensive test site evaluation, resulting in appropriate enhancements. Pricing is based on a sliding scale—from $25 to $65 per connect hour—not unlike the “service basis” pricing of Wilson print products.

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Library Hi Tech, vol. 3 no. 1
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ISSN: 0737-8831

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Publication date: 1 January 1985

John J. Regazzi

The Wilson System is a computerized information system supporting both editorial and manufacturing processes involved in the creation of the H. W. Wilson Company's subject indexes…

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The Wilson System is a computerized information system supporting both editorial and manufacturing processes involved in the creation of the H. W. Wilson Company's subject indexes and catalogs, as well as the selective online retrieval of information from bibliographic and other databases through WILSONLINE—the Company's online search system. The system was designed to provide an automated means for the gathering, storage, retrieval, and management of the Company's editorial data.

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Library Hi Tech, vol. 3 no. 1
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ISSN: 0737-8831

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Publication date: 1 January 1985

John J. Regazzi

The major search, display, and related features of WILSONLINE are described. A more detailed description can be found in WILSONLINE: Guide and Documentation (The H. W. Wilson Co.…

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The major search, display, and related features of WILSONLINE are described. A more detailed description can be found in WILSONLINE: Guide and Documentation (The H. W. Wilson Co., 1984. $30.)

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Library Hi Tech, vol. 3 no. 1
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ISSN: 0737-8831

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Publication date: 1 February 1989

Douglas J. Ernest and Holley R. Lange

With the introduction of optical disc technologies in the mid‐1980s, access to periodical literature has entered a new era. Although librarians perceive inadequacies with some of…

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With the introduction of optical disc technologies in the mid‐1980s, access to periodical literature has entered a new era. Although librarians perceive inadequacies with some of the new systems and the means by which they deliver information, users have embraced them enthusiastically.

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Reference Services Review, vol. 17 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0090-7324

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Publication date: 12 June 2015

Anamika Megwalu

Academic social networking (ASN) sites are becoming a popular communication medium among scholars. This case study was designed to explore communication behaviors of physicists…

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Academic social networking (ASN) sites are becoming a popular communication medium among scholars. This case study was designed to explore communication behaviors of physicists, linguists, and sociologists on an ASN site called Academia.edu, their motivations for using it, and the perceived impact of their use of the site on their professional activities. Results from this study are valuable for designing computer-mediated and web-based communication media for scholars and also for adding richness to the literature related to scholarly communication. For the purpose of this study, data was collected using three different instruments: Server log, survey, and interview. Data used for analyses included a total of 20,309 server log data, 267 survey responses, and 28 interviews from scholars of Physics, Sociology, and Linguistics who use Academia.edu. Results from the study showed that the use of Academia.edu is dependent on the discipline scholars are affiliated with, their professional status, and the time of the year. Unlike physicists, linguists and sociologists are more inclined to using Academia.edu and other ASN sites. Although linguists and sociologists actively use Academia.edu, their motivations to use the site are different. These differences in user-motivations and user-activities across the disciplines are influenced by variations in the social and cultural practices of the disciplines. This study used Whitley’s (2000) theory of degrees of mutual dependence and task uncertainty to explain the differences in the adoption and use of Academia.edu across the three disciplines.

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Current Issues in Libraries, Information Science and Related Fields
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ISBN: 978-1-78441-637-9

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Publication date: 1 June 1992

Nancy Melin Nelson

University of Cincinnati Inaugurates OhioLINK. The University of Cincinnati (UC), first to implement a state‐of‐the‐art computerized Ohio library research system, celebrated the…

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University of Cincinnati Inaugurates OhioLINK. The University of Cincinnati (UC), first to implement a state‐of‐the‐art computerized Ohio library research system, celebrated the arrival of the technology with inauguration ceremonies.

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Academic and Library Computing, vol. 9 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1055-4769

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Publication date: 1 January 1992

Nancy Melin Nelson

Chadwyck‐Healey Announces the Patrologla Latina Database. The Patrologia Latina Database is a major text conversion and electronic publishing project. It is a complete…

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Chadwyck‐Healey Announces the Patrologla Latina Database. The Patrologia Latina Database is a major text conversion and electronic publishing project. It is a complete machine‐readable edition of the classic nineteenth‐century collection of texts edited by the ecclesiastical publisher Jacques‐Paul Migne.

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Academic and Library Computing, vol. 9 no. 1
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ISSN: 1055-4769

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Publication date: 1 March 1995

Charles Terbille

For the past ten years or so, librarians have been discussing the way reference service is provided, the most conspicuous recent installments being the “Re‐thinking Reference in…

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For the past ten years or so, librarians have been discussing the way reference service is provided, the most conspicuous recent installments being the “Re‐thinking Reference in Academic Libraries” conference and the widely publicized changes at Brandeis University. No one has heard every statement in this debate because it has been so extensive in time, space, and medium. Nevertheless, it seems safe to say that mathematical queuing theory has not played a significant role in it. At first, this lacuna is puzzling, since queuing problems are one of the fundamental types treated in operations research, which in “those thrilling days of yesteryear,” the fifties, sixties, and early seventies, was taught in some library and information science programs. By 1978 articles that applied the theory specifically to reference work appeared. Yet, the second edition of a text on operations research for librarians that appeared in 1991 says not a word about reference queues. Perhaps this theory has been neglected in recent discussions because it is usually applied to telephone calls or local area networks and other configurations of computers, while its use in analyzing queues of people in banks, supermarkets, and the like was passed over as too mundane. Perhaps, too, the failure of banks to take the theory to its logical limits in arranging the queues for bank tellers has led to caution.

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Reference Services Review, vol. 23 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0090-7324

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Publication date: 1 February 1986

Linda W. Helgerson

The tremendous storage capacity of the CD‐ROM has generated the need for sophisticated search software capable of handling large files. Software previously developed for mainframe…

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The tremendous storage capacity of the CD‐ROM has generated the need for sophisticated search software capable of handling large files. Software previously developed for mainframe computers, laser disk applications, information retrieval of textual files on IBM‐PCs, and other functions, is being modified to meet these needs. Other software is being specifically written for CD‐ROM applications. Vendors of significant information retrieval products are identified, and the characteristics of twelve packages are compared.

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Library Hi Tech, vol. 4 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0737-8831

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