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Peer reviewedSheffield, Philip W. – Higher Education, 1990
Recent, far-reaching developments in the provision and retrieval of educational information in the United Kingdom are described, focusing on changes to an established research tool, the British Education Index, and the new British Education Thesaurus, modeled on the ERIC Thesaurus. Technological advancements are also considered. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Databases, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Ojala, Marydee – Database, 1988
Discusses the importance of British databases and information services to U.S. business searchers and describes several British databases and services. Topics covered include database contents, available search strategies, access from the United States, language differences, and dating problems. A directory of contacts is provided. (six…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Business, Databases, Economic Climate
Download full textShabajee, Paul; Miller, Libby; Dingley, Andy – 2002
A group of research projects based at HP-Labs Bristol, the University of Bristol (England) and ARKive (a new large multimedia database project focused on the worlds biodiversity based in the United Kingdom) are working to develop a flexible model for the indexing of multimedia collections that allows users to annotate content utilizing extensible…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Biodiversity, Databases, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedTilson, Yvette; East, Harry – Online & CD-ROM Review, 1994
Conducted at two British universities in 1993, a year-long trial service study of 20 bio-scientists using GRATEFUL MED software access to National Library of Medicine databases, principally MEDLINE, found that the users approved most of the service's ease, convenience, and time saving features and disapproved of its susceptibility to network…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Biomedicine, Databases, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedDavies, Pat – Higher Education Review, 1995
An analysis of the role and functions of the United Kingdom's newly-implemented Higher Education Statistics Agency looks at key features of the data collection and storage system, including its comprehensiveness, new record structure, capability for tracking individuals, data categories and coding, quality of data, and data accessibility. Despite…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Agency Role, Data Collection, Databases
Pollitt, A. Steven; Smith, Martin P.; Treglown, Mark; Braekevelt, Patrick – 1996
This paper presents the background and then reports progress made in the development of two view-based searching systems--HIBROWSE for EMBASE, searching Europe's most important biomedical bibliographic database, and HIBROWSE for EPOQUE, improving access to the European Parliament's Online Query System. The HIBROWSE approach to searching promises…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Biomedicine, Databases, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedOsei-Bonsu, M. – Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Information Supply, 1998
Highlights problems facing academic and research libraries in Ghana in providing scientific and technical information. Challenges include poor collections and inadequate funding. Topics include library cooperation, training in interlibrary lending and document delivery in the United Kingdom and in Denmark, and the need for CD-ROM databases and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Databases, Developing Nations
Peer reviewedSmith, N. R. – Information Services and Use, 1993
Discussion of the relationship between users, librarians, and vendors as it has been influenced by electronic databases and communications networks highlights experiences at Aston University (United Kingdom). Topics addressed include mediated searching; direct user access to databases; impacts on staff; user demand; costs; CD-ROM networks;…
Descriptors: Access to Information, College Libraries, Computer Networks, Costs
PDF pending restorationRaitt, David I., Ed.; Jeapes, Ben, Ed. – 1996
This proceedings volume contains 68 papers. Subjects addressed include: access to information; the future of information managers/librarians; intelligent agents; changing roles of library users; disintermediation; Internet review sites; World Wide Web (WWW) search engines; Java; online searching; future of online education; integrated information…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Software, Cooperation, Current Events
