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Peer reviewedAbels, Eileen G. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1996
Interviews with three vendors of electronic resources provide a historical perspective of pricing, a discussion of current pricing structures, and insight into the future of pricing from three different perspectives: a database producer (Disclosure, Inc.), an online services provider (Questel-Orbit, Inc.), and a commercial online service/consumer…
Descriptors: Database Producers, Futures (of Society), Interviews, Online Vendors
Peer reviewedGasaway, Laura N. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1998
Copyright and other intellectual property issues have dominated discussions of legal issues surrounding the Internet. There are other issues of considerable importance that also attract attention. Five legal issues affecting the Internet are addressed: copyright, online service-provider liability, database protection, obscenity, and privacy. Cited…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Information Services, Intellectual Property, Internet
Peer reviewedOjala, Marydee – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986
During the past 10 years, online searching has moved from libraries into homes and offices, creating a group called end-user searchers who access online databases and perform search operations for finding information for their own use. Probable increase in end-user searching has significant implications for vendors and for intermediaries. (25…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Futures (of Society), Information Seeking, Information Systems
Peer reviewedSievert, MaryEllen C.; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1995
Describes types of full-text databases in medicine; discusses features for searching full-text journal databases available through online vendors; reviews research on full-text databases in medicine; and describes the MEDLINE/Full-Text Research Project at the University of Missouri (Columbia) which investigated precision, recall, and relevancy.…
Descriptors: Full Text Databases, Higher Education, Literature Reviews, Medical Research
Peer reviewedNeufeld, M. Lynne; Cornog, Martha – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986
Summarizes the growth of databases, including major milestones, issues, and trends of the past 20 years, during which time the database/online industry had become a large and thriving segment of the information industry. A time line overview of database developments from 1951 to 1985 is appended. (42 references) (EJS)
Descriptors: Automation, Databases, History, Information Services
Peer reviewedBorgman, Christine L. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986
Reviews the literature on user studies in both online catalogs and bibliographic retrieval systems. User problems with both mechanical and conceptual aspects are reviewed and potential sources of problems due either to individual characteristics or system variables are discussed. Possible solutions and areas that need further research are noted.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Databases, Online Catalogs, Online Searching
Peer reviewedZahir, Sajjad; Chang, Chew Lik – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1992
Describes the design and development of a prototype expert system called ONLINE-EXPERT that helps users select online databases and vendors that meet users' needs. Search strategies are discussed; knowledge acquisition and knowledge bases are described; and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a decision analysis technique that ranks databases,…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Databases, Decision Making, Expert Systems
