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A reference that provides evaluative and comparative information on electronic products available in the broad fields of physics and mathematics. It covers databases that are available worldwide in any language and any electronic form CD-ROM, online, realtime, disk, and tape. Each entry includes, wh

Subject coverage: general business information--trade newsletters, state news services, & newspapers devoted solely to business & industry.

Published in 1992, like the first, this second edition is not intended as introductory textbook command-driven, Boolean searching. It is targeted at online searchers who already have some knowledge of command languages and may be proficient searchers on databases in one or two subject areas, but when required to venture into new and less familiar territory still need guidance. It is also offered to end users who possess the subject expertise but lack of information retrieval know-how. The Manual is offered as a guide to database selection and a navigational aid through the twists and turns of the retrieval maze; at least some of the dead ends and backtracking may thereby be avoided. This volume, written by experts in their various fields, deals with the subject coverage and record structures of specific databases, offers comparisons between databases (context, indexing procedures, updating policies, etc.), discusses the choice between online and CD-ROM sources (and between hosts if online is selected), and illustrates strategies with numerous search extracts.

A new directory that provides information on electronic databases worldwide in the field of agriculture taken broadly to include fisheries and forestry, food science, veterinary medicine, and self-sufficiency covering online, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, and diskette formats. The records provide informati

Sustainable Geography recalls the system and laws of geographical space production, tackles the hardcore of geography and presents models and organizations through a regional analysis and the dynamics of territorial structures and methods. The book also describes the general idea of discontinuities, trenches, the anti-dialectical and redivision-uniformity in the globalization and addresses the Transnational Urban Systems and Urban Network in Europe.