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Basch, Reva – Online, 1990
Describes desired software enhancements identified by the Southern California Online Users Group in the areas of search language, database selection, document retrieval and display, user interface, customer support, and cost and economic issues. The need to prioritize these wishes and to determine whether features should reside in the mainframe or…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Full Text Databases, Microcomputers, Online Searching
Basch, Reva – Online, 1990
This continuation of an earlier article discusses online vendors' responses to users' concerns as well as the future of online services. Maxwell Online, Dialog, Mead Data, Data-Star, and Dow Jones News/Retrieval address user needs, search strategies, databases, document retrieval and display, user interface, and cost and economic issues. (LRW)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Databases, Documentation
