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Basch, Reva – Online, 1993
Provides excerpts from interviews with expert online searchers to be published in a book entitled "Secrets of the Super Searchers" in the fall of 1993. Planning search strategies is the focus; and topics addressed include methods of planning searches, broad versus narrow searches, and building with component parts. (EAM)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Costs, Interviews, Online Searching
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, 1995
Discusses the use of fax transmissions. Highlights include searching by fax, including online service, print and electronic publishing, and database producers; customer service, including documentation updates, new product announcements, and marketing materials; document delivery; problems; and fax messaging. (four references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Database Producers, Electronic Publishing, Facsimile Transmission, Marketing
Peer reviewedBasch, Reva – Information Services and Use, 1985
Describes Information on Demand, an information broker that provides database and manual research on a fee for service basis, and accesses more than a dozen online systems. Relative strengths and weaknesses of particular systems and the criteria used to select databases and online vendors are identified and discussed. (CLB)
Descriptors: Abstracts, Cost Effectiveness, Databases, Evaluation Criteria
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
Basch, Reva – Database, 1992
Reviews recent trends in databases and online systems. Topics discussed include new access points for established databases; acquisitions, consolidations, and competition between vendors; European coverage; international services; online reference materials, including telephone directories; political and legal materials and public records;…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Broadcast Journalism, Competition, Database Producers
Basch, Reva – 1996
This book presents the collected wisdom of 35 leading Internet hunters and gatherers. Through interviews, these experts offer insights, anecdotes, tips, techniques, and case histories which will raise the "searching IQ" of any serious Internet user. The Super Net Searchers explain how they find valuable information on the Internet,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Mediated Communication, Efficiency, Futures (of Society)
