Databank Software for the 1990s and Beyond--Part 2: The Online Services Respond.

Basch, Reva

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Publication Date: 1990

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Databank Software for the 1990s and Beyond--Part 2: The Online Services Respond.

Basch, Reva

Online, v14 n3 p15-21 May 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, Futures (of Society), Man Machine Systems, Microcomputers, Online Searching, Online Vendors, Search Strategies, User Needs (Information), User Satisfaction (Information), Users (Information)

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Language: English

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