Standalone online sources: the challenge of the niche database. From: Online | Date: November 1, 1991| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1991 Online, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

The number of online databases continues to grow and is now, by conservative reckoning, well over 4,000. Yet most online searchers regularly use only several dozen, and are aware of perhaps some hundreds more. What about the rest? Are there, among those unknown thousands of databases, useful files that online specialists should know about? The answer is a definite and tantalizing "probably."

It is true that a searcher who heroically strives to keep abreast of the leading comprehensive databanks DIALOG, Mead, Maxwell, News/ Retrieval, STN, and others - can reach the principal ...

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