Online Retrieval

Résumé du livre

Explains how to search commercial online databases and discusses the closely related issue of database development. Provides a descriptive analysis of online interaction dynamics and a prescriptive strategy to maximize the user's efforts online. Clearly defines the distinction between searching for specific items, which is easy, and searching for information on a topic, which is more difficult. Covers the two primary forms of automated bibliographic retreival systems in place today, the online database vendors and their systems and services, searching strategies, database selection, user-friendly systems, and database development.