Selecting commercial databases to suit your client's needs - the current situation for Africa

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dc.contributor.author Swanepoel, David A.
dc.contributor.editor Van der Westhuizen, Erica E.
dc.contributor.other Conference of African Animal Health Workers (1st : 1995 : Onderstepoort, South Africa)
dc.date.accessioned 2010-03-26T08:18:34Z
dc.date.available 2010-03-26T08:18:34Z
dc.date.created 1995
dc.date.issued 1997
dc.description Article was scanned with HP Scanjet 5590, 24-bit true colour, 300 dpi, saved in TIFF-format. Adobe Acrobat v.9 was used for the merging and conversion to the final presentation PDF-format. en
dc.description.abstract The paper starts with a short overview of the history of the use of bibliographic references at the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (OVI). Abstracting and indexing journals as at the South African Documentation Centre for Agriculture are mentioned. The second part describes certain selection criteria such as available budget, availability and powerfulness of hardware. quality and comprehensiveness of information, user interface, frequency of updating, and physical format. Lastly the appropriateness of CD-ROM in particular, for the current situation in Africa, as well as the latest developments in this field are discussed. en
dc.format.extent 7 p. en
dc.identifier.citation Swanepoel, DA 1995, 'Selecting commercial databases to suit your client's needs - the current situation for Africa' in Van der Westhuizen, EE 1997, ‘Animal health information for Africa: 1st Conference of African Animal Health Information Workers, 3-6 July 1995, Onderstepoort, South Africa’, University of Pretoria, Veterinary Science Library, Pretoria, South Africa, pp.56-62. en
dc.identifier.isbn 1868541436
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/13743
dc.language.iso en en
dc.publisher University of Pretoria, Veterinary Science Library en
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dc.rights ©University of Pretoria, Jotello F. Soga Library en
dc.source Original conference proceedings: Van der Westhuizen, EE 1997, ‘Animal health information for Africa: 1st Conference of African Animal Health Information Workers, 3-6 July 1995, Onderstepoort, South Africa’, University of Pretoria, Veterinary Science Library, Pretoria, South Africa, 93 p. en
dc.subject African animal health information workers en
dc.subject ICAHIS proceedings en
dc.subject Animal health information en
dc.subject Veterinary databases en
dc.subject.lcsh Animal health -- Information services en
dc.subject.lcsh Veterinary libraries -- Africa en
dc.subject.lcsh Veterinary medicine -- Databases en
dc.title Selecting commercial databases to suit your client's needs - the current situation for Africa en
dc.title.alternative 1st Conference of African Animal Health Information Workers, 3-5 July 1995, Onderstepoort, South Africa en
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