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Peer reviewedStuart, Lynne M.; Harwell, Kevin R. – Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Information Supply, 1997
Full-text services require more instruction and reference help than electronic bibliographic databases. To relieve pressure on reference staff, librarians at Pennsylvania State University developed weekly "Just-in-Time" demonstrations to help patrons learn how to use LEXIS-NEXIS. This article provides an overview of LEXIS-NEXIS and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Databases, Demonstrations (Educational), Electronic Libraries
Download full textBerteaux, Susan S.; Strong, Sandra S. – 2000
The Database Advisor (DBA) is a tool designed to guide users to the most appropriate World Wide Web-based databases for their research. Developed in 1997 by the Science Libraries at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), DBA is a Web-based front-end to bibliographic and full-text databases to which UCSD has remote access. DBA allows the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Computer Software
Peer reviewedMah, Carole; Flanders, Julia; Lavagnino, John – Computers and the Humanities, 1997
Presents two groups of text encoding problems encountered by the Brown University Women Writers Project while using Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) to create a database of book transcriptions: dual emendation and correction, and multiple hierarchies. Offers several possible approaches to these encoding problems and analyzes the issues…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Computer Uses in Education, Data Collection, Data Conversion
Schack, Edna O.; Schack, Markham B. – Collegiate Microcomputer, 1989
Discussion of online databases and their hardware and software requirements, interactive search techniques, and costs focuses on information services of interest to higher education. Bibliographic, full-text, and online conferencing databases are described, menu-driven and command-driven information systems are explained, and modems are discussed.…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Computer Software, Cost Effectiveness, Full Text Databases
Peer reviewedMonty, Vivienne; Warren-Wenk, P. – Education Libraries, 1994
Suggests ways in which the Internet can supplement traditional methods of professional development for librarians. Examples include electronic journals, discussion groups, electronic courses, electronic conferences, e-mail, networking, and coauthoring via the Internet. Services listed include Internet directories, education gophers, bibliographic…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Collaborative Writing, Directories, Discussion Groups
Peer reviewedGardner, Stanley, Ed. – Library Hi Tech, 1996
This overview of the use of technology in Missouri libraries describes the statewide bibliographic union database; elementary and secondary school projects using the Internet; full-text magazine database; remote electronic access; state depository program for digitizing resources; networks; electronic publishing; interlibrary loan; public and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Databases, Depository Libraries, Electronic Publishing
