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Seiser, Virginia – 1986
Detailed reviews of two legal information databases--"Laborlaw I" and "Legal Resource Index"--are presented in this paper. Each database review begins with a bibliographic entry listing the title; producer; vendor; cost per hour contact time; offline print cost per citation; time period covered; frequency of updates; and size…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Databases, Computer System Design, Higher Education
Nickerson, Gord – Computers in Libraries, 1992
Outlines the features and drawbacks of Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS). Praises the ease of use for end users and the variety of documents and other information available, but cautions users about searching problems resulting from the use of relevance ranking schemes. Calls for greater librarian involvement. (EA)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Computer System Design, Full Text Databases, Information Networks