NERAC Unveils Enhanced Online Tools To Special Librarians.Business/Technology Editors PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 2000 Information retrieval information retrieval Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. pioneer NERAC NERAC Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee NERAC New England Research Application Center (Storrs, CT) , Inc. demonstrated a suite of enhanced electronic search tools to the professional research community as the Special Libraries Association convened its 91st annual meeting in Philadelphia Philadelphia, ancient cities Philadelphia, name of several ancient cities. One was in Lydia, W Asia Minor (now W Turkey). At the foot of Mt. Tmolus and near the location of modern Alaşehir, it was founded in the 2d cent. B.C. this week. For NERAC, the event marked the completion of the first phase of its transition from a print to an electronic provider of scientific, technical, medical, bio-medical and IP information. "It's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have the best of the old NERAC, with the added speed, power and convenience of the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the ," company President Kevin KEVIN Keepers of the Eternal Vigilance of the Islamic Nation (fictional, from White Teeth by Zadie Smith) Bouley said. "Our customers told us they were happy with the information we were providing them, but they wanted faster access to it. Now we have the best of both worlds. We can still provide search assistance by industry-trained scientists and engineers. Only now the results come back via the Web within hours, not days." Also making its debut at the Philadelphia conference: a revamped Customer Access interface that allows point-and-click document and patent ordering directly from online search results; an improved Table of Contents service that allows the user to specify journals by name or to search for journals by subject; and a search results filtering feature called "Search-Within-A-Search(SM)." "Now our scientists and engineers are able to deliver our customers broad literature searches," Bouley said. "We eliminate the results that we know are not relevant. And then customers use Search-Within-A-Search to pinpoint those citations only they would recognize as on-target." One of the original technology transfer centers established by congressional mandate in 1966 at the dawn of the space race, NERAC has operated as a privately held independent corporation since 1985. For more information, contact NERAC President Kevin Bouley at 860-872-7000, or by email, kbouley@nerac.com. |
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