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Pack, Thomas – Database, 1997
Provides reviews of online bookstores and publisher sites on the World Wide Web that offer detailed databases of book information. Searching techniques, current awareness services, ordering, subject-specific stores, and other book-related sites are included. (LRW)
Descriptors: Books, Bookstores, Databases, Online Searching
Ebbinghouse, Carol – Searcher, 1997
Explains listservs and describes how to locate listservs relating to the law. Topics include how to use listservs as current awareness tools; how to locate listserv archives; and how to use listservs as databases of information. Sidebars provide pertinent Web site addresses. (LRW)
Descriptors: Archives, Databases, Electronic Mail, Information Sources
National Library of Australia, Canberra. – 1980
ERIC is accessible to educational researchers in Australia through the microfiche collections listed in this directory or through AUSINET (The Australian Information Network) and search services provided by Lockheed and System Development Corporation. The National Library Education Information Service also offers a monthly SDI service from ERIC.…
Descriptors: Databases, Education, Information Sources, Library Collections
Borman, Lorraine – 1970
An environment is described in which interdisciplinary scholars at a university are able to utilize for various purposes machine-readable bibliographic and other descriptive text files. The information files include abstracts of social science and computer and information science journal literature, descriptions of research activities in…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Computers, Information Dissemination, Information Retrieval
Hoshovsky, Alexander G. – 1969
The impetus for the nation-wide study of SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information) came from the desire to learn more about the options available for the application of the SDI concept prior to decisions about its possible use in Air Force research and development activities. For this purpose, data on user populations, literature coverage,…
Descriptors: Administration, Information Dissemination, Information Processing, Information Services
Download full textSchneider, John H., Ed.; And Others – 1973
This document contains the results of a survey of 94 U. S. organizations, and 36 organizations in other countries that were thought to prepare machine-readable data bases. Of those surveyed, 55 organizations (40 in U. S., 15 in other countries) provided completed camera-ready forms describing 81 commercially available, machine-readable data bases…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Data Processing, Databases, Information Dissemination
BAIRD, KAREN – 1965
THE USE OF AN ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM CALLED "SELECTIVE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION" (SDI), WAS STUDIED AS A TECHNIQUE FOR SEARCHING THE LITERATURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION AND BRINGING TO THE ATTENTION OF UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS THAT SELECT PORTION WHICH IS OF DIRECT RELEVANCE TO THEIR PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS. THE…
Descriptors: Administrators, Data Processing, Educational Administration, Evaluation
Flanagan, Lynn; Hallett, Karin; Armstrong, Rhonda – 2000
This paper provides timesaving tips for information gathering. Part 1 presents the following tips for use of bibliographic databases: (1) read the help screens for the specific database you are using; (2) make use of the different access points and the limit features for the specific database you are using in order to focus your results; (3) learn…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographies, Citations (References), Computer Software
Peer reviewedTinsley, G. Lynn; Yourison, Karola M. – Special Libraries, 1993
Describes features of the Library Information System (LIS) at Carnegie Mellon University and discusses how LIS is utilized by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) library staff and patrons. Highlights include a history of the LIS, electronic mail applications, online request forms, and current awareness services. (six references) (LRW)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Electronic Mail, Higher Education, Integrated Library Systems
Perdue, Bob; Piotrowski, Chris – 1987
In order to determine whether the expertise of professionals in the field of psychiatry and law could be enhanced by the use of current awareness databases in addition to traditional online sources, the first of two papers in this document examines online searches on topics of interest to professionals in the psychiatry/law specialty. The use of…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Psychiatry, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Search Strategies
Lindqvist, Mats – 1973
After discussing the nature of timeliness and its importance to the user of information systems, this document examines the factors which affect timeliness in three subsystems of the scientific communication system. The first subsystem moves a document from the existence of new knowledge to the point of entry into an information system; the second…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Dissemination, Information Networks, Information Storage
Olive, G.; And Others – 1971
A selective dissemination of information service based on computer scanning of Nuclear Science Abstracts tapes has operated at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, England since October, 1968. The performance of the mechanized SDI service has been compared with that of the pre-existing current awareness service which is based on…
Descriptors: Automation, Evaluation, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Gluchowicz, Zofia – 1974
The activities of the Information and Documentation Center (IDC) at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden are presented in this annual report for the fiscal year 1972-1973. The IDC is a research project on computer-based information retrieval funded by the Swedish Council for Scientific Information and Documentation and the Office…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Computer Oriented Programs, Documentation, Information Centers
Scheffler, F. L.; March, J. F. – 1971
The Aerospace Materials Information Center (AMIC) Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) program was evaluated by an interview technique after one year of operation. The data base for the SDI consists of the periodic document index records input to the AMIC system. The users are 63 engineers, scientists, and technical administrators at the…
Descriptors: Aerospace Industry, Evaluation, Information Centers, Information Services
Kehl, W. B.; And Others – 1972
This report covers Phase IIB (1 January 1971 to 30 June 1972) of the development of a campus-based Center for Information Services (CIS) at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Activities during this phase included completion of the design and programming details of the software system, development of a prototype of the software…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer Programs, Information Centers, Information Services
