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Peer reviewedWilliams, Martha E. – Journal of Chemical Documentation, 1972
Although 3
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Information Dissemination, Information Services
Peer reviewedWilliams, Martha E. – Special Libraries, 1975
Criteria for selection of data bases and data base services such as searching features, logical capacity, document delivery, output format and medium, and costs are examined. (Author)
Descriptors: Databases, Evaluation Criteria, Information Retrieval, Information Services
Peer reviewedWilliams, Martha E. – Online Review, 1985
Describes the Information Market Indicators survey that monitors online vendors, database producers, and specific databases in terms of the revenues generated and number of connect hours of usage. Highlights and facts relative to calendar years 1982 and 1983 (usage, revenue data, vendor databases, database producers, classes of users) are…
Descriptors: Databases, Income, Information Services, Online Systems
Peer reviewedWilliams, Martha E. – Information Processing and Management, 1982
Provides update to 13-year analysis of finances of major database producer noting actions taken to improve finances (decrease expenses, increase efficiency, develop new products, market strategies and services, change pricing scheme, omit print products, increase prices) and consequences of actions (revenue increase, connect hour increase). Five…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Databases, Expenditures, Financial Problems
Download full textStewart, Alan K.; Williams, Martha E. – 1972
A summary is presented of data gathered for a survey of information center services in the form of statistics for a hypothetical typical information center. The extent of information transfer on national and international levels among the responding centers is discussed. (Author)
Descriptors: Information Centers, Information Dissemination, Information Services, Information Utilization
Williams, Martha E.; And Others – 1972
The major objective of the IITRI Computer Search Center is to educate and link industry, academia, and government institutions to chemical and other scientific information systems and sources. The Center was developed to meet this objective and is in full operation providing services to users from a variety of machine-readable data bases with…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Chemistry, Computers, Databases
Williams, Martha E. – 1971
Information centers exist to provide information from machine-readable data bases to users in industry, universities and other organizations. The computer Search Center of the IIT Research Institute was designed with a number of variables and uncertainties before it. In this paper, the author discusses how the Center was designed to enable it to…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Databases, Information Centers, Information Processing
Williams, Martha E.; Stewart, Alan K. – 1972
A survey was made as a result of a need identified by the Association of Scientific Information Dissemination Center's (ASIDIC) Cooperative Data Management Committee (CDMC). The committee believed that an informal network of cooperative arrangements between centers could reduce the burden of individual centers and permit greater specialization…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Databases, Information Centers, Information Dissemination
