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ConSearch: An Electronic Document Research and Retrieval Utility for Windows from Management Information Technologies.

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Combs, Joseph, Jr. – Library Software Review, 1995

Reviews ConSearch 3.0, a product that provides flexible searching of electronic files, allowing the location of related meanings as well as exact matches. ConSearch 3.0 differs from other file retrieval approaches by relating words in search phrases of questions to the "meaning" of the words, which are stored in a "conceptual…

Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer Software, Computer Software Reviews, Databases

A Comparative Survey of Multimedia CD-ROM Encyclopedias.

Clements, Jim; Nicholls, Paul – Computers in Libraries, 1995

Provides historical background information about multimedia CD-ROM encyclopedias and evaluates 11 recent releases. Discusses access to information, costs, content, technological developments. Rates the text, multimedia, and user interface. A sidebar provides a 10-year chronology of CD-ROM encyclopedias. (AEF)

Descriptors: Access to Information, Comparative Analysis, Computer Interfaces, Computer Software Evaluation