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This column is the second in a continuing discussion of search software that allows images to be viewed online, downloaded and printed. Part 1 appeared in the November/December 1994 issue [...]

Editor's Note: Susan's original response to the Krumenaker article came to me as a Letter to the Editor. When I weighed the length of the communication, the amount of compiling [...]

If you need information about the companies or products involved in international trade, you will sooner or later find your way to the PIERS files on DIALOG. PIERS is one [...]

I was excited when I saw the announcement. DIALOG had lowered the rate for current awareness ALERTs in the PAPERS files to $1.00 per profile per weekly update. The price [...]

Column Editor's Note: The last Output Options contained a list of DIALOG's 'ready-made reports'--the pre-defined reports that Dialog and database producers have developed to make efficient use of particular files. [...]

The REPORT command on DIALOG can pull specific information from several retrieved records and display it in an easy-to-read format--usually a table. If you can decide exactly which fields of [...]

Fifteen years ago, no one would have dreamed of sitting online in an expensive database and displaying titles to a hundred hits, considering each of them in turn and making [...]

The user was beginning a large-scale retrospective investigation of electric propulsion technologies in the aerospace industry. Familiar with online databases and bibliometric methods, he suggested the NASA/American Institute of Aeronautics [...]

KEEPING UP WITH THE PAPERSCHASE -- PAPERS AND PAPERS2 ON DIALOG If your regional daily newspaper has not gone online with DIALOG yet, you may not be exulting over the [...]

Doug Cornwell's simple but elegant description of downloading DIALOG reports into DBASE OUTPUT OPTIONS, May 1991 ONLINE) inspired me to explore the process of downloading data into a Macintosh database. [...]

When I began to use a Macintosh four years ago, I did so to take advantage of its attractive output capabilities. Essentially, I used it as a word processor. Since [...]

One-Minute Management On DIALOG: Is OneSearch An Answer? Online searching is a creative and adaptive process. A good, experienced searcher can approach a topic she knows little or nothing about, [...]

I am surprised at the number of librarians who believe that printing the full text of an article from an online database is prohibitively expensive. Unless the article is excessively [...]

For some time now, I have wanted to use the GET command, which is available only on ORBIT and Maxwell Business Information Systems (formerly Pergamon Financial Data Services). For one [...]

1000 Hits? Three Ways To Focus The Results The client was very clear about what he wanted. He was beginning an executive job search. We would search the Standard and [...]

Controlling Delivery Charges You've done it, too, haven't you? You have located an ideally small number of hits and scanned titles to ascertain relevance; you're thrilled to have found a [...]

Do you avoid the patent files on Dialog due to their supposed high costs? Are patents, trademarks, and 'intellectual property' a mystery that you would rather leave to 'expert' searchers […]

A cryptic two-line message greeted me at the top of the list of file changes when I signed on to DIALOG on October 24: Uniform Output Changes (Effective November 1, [...]

Editor's Note: Shouting 'I love DIALMAIL' in a crowded room of electronic mail users may be an invitation to pandemonium. Nearly everyone who uses DIALMAIL has an opinion, and those [...]

MAILING LABELS (BY AND FOR) DIRECT MAIL I want to find all the companies that make this component so we can send out for bids for a supplier for our [...]

Editor's Note: For years we have learned and taught that good searchers should carefully structure their search strategies prior to going online. Meanwhile a quiet revolution has been taking place [...]

Computer-Aided Software Engineering: It's a descriptive but long-drawn-out term. It's not surprising, then, that it's known as CASE to engineers and computer applications people. It wasn't particularly difficult to find [...]

Editorial Comment: the Database column in the June 1992 issue of Database Searcher carried a sidebar on the recent decision by DIALOG and VU/TEXT not to transfer the complete text […]

Believing that researchers should become actively involved in doing their own online research, Nahum Goldman--an engineer, manager, and long-time online searcher--has developed a search model for 'doing it yourself.' His […]

It struck me as I was about to embark on an expedition through BIOSIS, MEDLINE and EMBASE for allergens of the common house dust mite. I was already approaching this [...]

Do you hate waiting in line at the supermarket checkout--especially during the holidays? Shop online at home! So now not only can you shop for gifts online, but also, you […]

Sometimes you never know what you will find in an online search--or when 'junk' from previous searches becomes valuable later. Consider the following headline I retrieved a few years ago: […]