The problem addressed was that many college students face difficulty in retrieving relevant documents that satisfy their academic needs from web-based systems and digital libraries. The study purpose was to determine strategies that college students could employ to increase the relevance of materials retrieved via online search systems. The…

This paper explores possibilities for marrying data visualization to online archival finding aids, which have continually suffered from usability issues in their long history. This paper describes a project in which two different data visualization models were built to replace sections of an archival finding aid. Users were then shown the models,…

Online labs (OLs) constitute digital educational tools which can have a significant role in supporting science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teachers in their daily teaching practice. Designing STEM lessons supported by specific OLs is a challenging task and thus, it is useful for STEM teachers to be able to share their lesson…

The study is aimed at assessing the perceptions of male and female students on manual and online course registration systems in tertiary institutions in Nigeria. One research question was formulated to guide the study. A questionnaire containing 20 items on assessing the perceptions of students on manual and online course registration was drawn.…

Introduction: This paper presents a qualitative exploration of university students' experience of searching an online public access catalogue. The study investigated how students conceptualise their searching process, as well as how students understand themselves as seekers of information. Method: Following a search task, thirty-eight…

In this paper, we propose a syntax-based text retrieval system for on-line language learning and use a fast regular expression search engine as its main component. Regular expression searches provide more scalable querying and search results than keyword-based searches. However, without a well-designed index scheme, the execution time of regular…

Stresses the need for librarians and information specialists to have proper perceptions of the role and uses of online systems to solve information problems for individual patrons, and encourages them to be creative, outgoing, and resource-intensive specialists during demonstrations of online systems. (JPF)

Compares the ELHILL 2 and STAIRS programs with respect to on-line searching of the MEDLARS citation file by means of a chart showing the capabilities of the two programs. (Author/PF)

The purpose of this flowchart is to help the new or occasional user of ORBIT answer the question "What do I do now?" (Author)

The need to search several files to obtain the maximum information on energy is emphasized. Energyline, APILIT, APIPAT, PIE News, TULSA, NTIS, and Chemical Abstracts Condensates files are described. (KP)

This article discusses some concepts of business information and surveys some online business data bases, notably the Predicasts data bases. Business applications of other categories of data bases are also discussed. (Author/KP)

Describes the Canadian On Line Enquiry (CAN/OLE) system. (PF)

This paper reviews studies of information dissemination as a basis for determining how on-line retrieval can best compete with a multitude of other sources of references. (22 references) (Author/SJ)

Describes the STATUS information retrieval system, which is a free text, Boolean-type system, concentrating on recent developments and improvements. The use of pre- and postprocessors is discussed, and how STATUS can be integrated into existing information systems is illustrated. An appendix lists selected users and applications. (Author/JD)

The Excerpta Medica on-line test data base of 181,653 records was found to be supplementary to MEDLINE and TOXLINE but especially responsive to searches on drug products. (Author)