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Download full textSchamber, Linda – 1988
This digest answers the following questions that beginning or novice users may have about CD-ROM (a compact disk with read-only memory) database services: (1) What is CD-ROM? (2) What databases are available? (3) Is CD-ROM difficult to use? (4) How much does CD-ROM cost? and (5) What is the future of CD-ROM? (15 references) (MES)
Descriptors: Costs, Databases, Futures (of Society), Microcomputers
Schamber, Linda – 1990
This digest discusses advantages and disadvantages of CD-ROM use in libraries and information centers and lists features of three CD-ROM versions of the ERIC database--Dialog OnDisc ERIC, OCLC Search CD450, and SilverPlatter ERIC. Brief descriptions of these products focus on the differences among them, including equipment requirements, search…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Computer Software, Microcomputers, Online Searching
Schamber, Linda – 1988
This digest discusses advantages and disadvantages of CD-ROM use in libraries and information centers and lists features of three CD-ROM versions of the ERIC database--Dialog OnDisc ERIC, OCLC Search CD450, and SilverPlatter ERIC. Brief descriptions of these products focus on the differences among them, including equipment requirements, search…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Computer Software, Microcomputers, Online Searching
Gonzalez-Stupp, Emma; Wildemuth, Barbara M. – 1985
This manual provides information to aid home computer owners in performing literature searches of ERIC and other education and social science databases using the BRS Information Technologies "After Dark" system. Assuming some familiarity with printed ERIC indexes or online searches, this manual is divided into five chapters. It is…
Descriptors: Adults, Bibliographic Utilities, Databases, Educational Research
Gonzalez-Stupp, Emma; Wildemuth, Barbara M. – 1986
This manual provides information to aid home computer owners in performing literature searches of ERIC and other education and social science databases, such as the DIALOG Information Services "Knowledge Index" System. Assuming some familiarity with printed ERIC indexes or online searches, this manual is divided into five chapters. It is…
Descriptors: Adults, Bibliographic Utilities, Databases, Educational Research
McLaughlin, Pamela, Comp. – 1985
The 15 articles on end-users and online searching that are annotated in this bibliography were published during 1984 and 1985 and cited in Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) and Resources in Education (RIE). The documents and articles cover a variety of issues and perspectives including: criteria for implementation of end-user online…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annotated Bibliographies, Databases, Higher Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources, Syracuse, NY. – 1984
Seventeen articles and reports published between 1982 and 1984 and cited in "Current Index to Journals in Education" and "Resources in Education" are listed in this bibliography on online services at the reference desk. Topics include interpersonal relations as a necessary part of the information transfer process; role of the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Policy, Annotated Bibliographies, Higher Education
