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Hamzeh, Joshua; Kaur, Navdeep; Bush, Paula; Hudon, Catherine; Schuster, Tibor; Vedel, Isabelle; Hong, Quan Nha; Pluye, Pierre – Education for Information, 2019
The questionnaires' origin (sources from which elements of the questionnaire are derived) and initial development (process of making a questionnaire from elements) should be assessed before their measurement properties. There is no Critical Appraisal Tool (CAT) that comprehensively assesses the origin and initial development of questionnaires…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Information Services, Users (Information), Academic Libraries
Hawkins, Donald T. – Online, 1989
Reviews some of the models used for pricing online information services and discusses some of the implications of these pricing algorithms. Topics discussed include online versus print pricing; charges for the retrieval process; charges for the retrieved information; telecommunications charges; and the pricing policies of Chemical Abstracts…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cost Estimates, Database Producers, Databases
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Williams, 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
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Nasatir, Marilyn – Information Technology and Libraries, 1983
Integrating machine-readable data files and microcomputer software (combined as MRDF) into traditional library and information services by incorporating a MARC format for them into the bibliographic networks will increase access to those materials. Standards for their bibliographic control have been developed and progress is being made in their…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Computer Programs, Databases, Information Networks
Arnold, Stephen E. – 1982
Managers and executives need the easy and quick access to business and management information that online databases can provide, but many have difficulty articulating their search needs to an intermediary. One possible solution would be to encourage managers and their immediate support staff members to search textual databases directly as they now…
Descriptors: Administrators, Databases, Efficiency, Information Retrieval
Griffiths, Jose-Marie – Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 1984
Discusses the effects of microcomputers on online services and products from the perspectives of the major participants in the online industry--database creators and providers; service or network operators; libraries and information brokers; and end users. Ongoing developments and trends affecting participant groups are reviewed. Three references…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Networks, Information Scientists, Information Services
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Monty, 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
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Smith, Stephen C. – Library Hi Tech, 1984
Summary of developments that have occurred in the past year in online news-retrieval services highlights the demise of the New York Times Information Service, Information Access Corporation's database additions and enhancements, full-text services, specialized databases with current events content, and microcomputer access to news. Twelve…
Descriptors: Current Events, Databases, Information Retrieval, Information Services
Hopkins, Leigh – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1982
Discusses the rise of drug information centers in hospitals and medical centers, highlighting staffing, functions, typical categories of questions received by centers, and sources used. An appendix of drug information sources included in texts, updated services, journals, and computer databases is provided. Thirteen references are listed. (EJS)
Descriptors: Databases, Hospitals, Information Centers, Information Services
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White, Martin S. – Online Review, 1983
Benefits associated with private file services offered by online system hosts in the United States and Europe are outlined, noting currently available services, private file design, file input, costs and charges, service comparisons, security, and videotex services. Three references are included. (EJS)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Confidentiality, Costs, Databases
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Mackesy, Eileen M. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1982
Reviews the development of secondary information services in the arts and humanities, discusses the services currently provided and the usage levels for those services, outlines some of the problems associated with online databases in the humanities, and considers some probable future developments. A 5-item reference list is included. (JL)
Descriptors: Databases, Humanities, Indexes, Indexing
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Allbritten, William; Bogal-Allbritten, Rosemarie – NASPA Journal, 1987
Examines the potential value of several established, commercial, remote data base services as well as several specialty bulletin boards that are of interest to student personnel staff. Notes that computerized data bases and bulletin boards can provide bibliographic references and much more. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Databases, Higher Education, Information Services
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Freides, Thelma – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1982
Reviews the origin, current state of development, and subject coverage of the secondary access services available to American social scientists, including bibliographic services for the various academic disciplines and a large variety of specialized services for subdisciplines and interdisciplinary fields. A 10-item reference list accompanies the…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Automation, Databases, Indexes
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Landau, Ruth N.; Wanger, Judith – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1980
Presents an overview of nonbibliographic computerized databases in business and economics, science and technology, and the social sciences, and discusses some major issues in the field. (FM)
Descriptors: Databases, Information Services, Information Systems, Online Systems
Vesterinen, Pirjo; Grohn, Inga-Leena – 1982
This report presents an evaluation of the usefulness of videotex for technical information services which is based on studies of a number of videotex systems operating in several countries, and a description of the structure and content of a database which has been introduced into the Finnish videotex system, Telset, by the Technical Information…
Descriptors: Databases, Delivery Systems, Information Dissemination, Information Retrieval
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