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Well, at this
point I’m hoping that you’ve seen the method to this course from our
discussion of Carol Tenopir’s article.
In our “tread with dinosaurs,” we’ll be getting to see an incredibly
powerful search interface to an enormous suite of databases. Many of these databases will be familiar –
from your experience with access to the databases supplied by other
vendors. We’ll use this database
searching system to see all of the power that you might experience with other
interfaces throughout your career. It
will be an experience that you can always use to explore the databases that
you meet when you’re walking down the Information Superhighway. When it comes to all-around capability,
everything else will likely fall short.
You may find yourself saying … “I know I could do that with Dialog …
is there a way with this search interface?”
The only drawback is that it is nearly devoid of a graphical user
interface. You’ll be constructing the
actual commands in DIALOG search query syntax.
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