Getting together with compact disc: a regional medline cd-rom initiative for libraries

Medline base – CD - rom – retrieval

Scientific information has been growing at an exponential level, and each year over 300.000 references are added to Medline base. There is now a growing interest on the bioinformatics researches to find ways to improve the ability to find relevant documents in the literature and to extract specific kinds of information from these documents (1,2). Medline, one of the gamestones of medical scient...

managing cd-rom services in academic libraries

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A study comparing centralized CD-ROM and decentralized intranet access to MEDLINE.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a decentralized intranet access in each medical department as opposed to centralized unique MEDLINE access in the medical library. DESIGN A two-phase questionnaire to evaluate MEDLINE use was given to junior and senior physicians at Rouen University Hospital (RUH). Phase I (August-October 1996) corresponded to a time period w...

SPIRS, WinSPIRS, and OVID: a comparison of three MEDLINE-on-CD-ROM interfaces.

Three MEDLINE-on-CD-ROM interfaces are compared: SPIRS (version 3.11) and WinSPIRS (version 1.0) from SilverPlatter and OVID (version 3.0, DOS and Windows interfaces) from CD Plus Technologies. Though the database is the same, there are substantial differences among the interfaces in the way these data are presented and can be searched. These different approaches are discussed, and a detailed c...

A comparison of CINAHL and MEDLINE CD-ROM in four allied health areas.