CAS-IAS services: where are we now?

被引：7

作者：

Davies, M

Boyle, F ^{[1
]}

Osborne, S

机构：

[1] Univ Liverpool, Harold Cohen Lib, Liverpool L69 3DA, Merseyside, England

[2] St Marys Univ Coll, Twickenham TW1 4SX, England

[3] Imperial Canc Res Fund, Lib & Informat Serv, London WC2A 3PX, England

来源：

ELECTRONIC LIBRARY | 1998年 / 16卷 / 01期

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D O I：

10.1108/eb045614

中图分类号：

G25 [图书馆学、图书馆事业]; G35 [情报学、情报工作];

学科分类号：

1205 ; 120501 ;

摘要：

The growth of CAS-IAS (current alerting service - individual article supply) services in the 1990s has not delivered the rapid benefits expected by information practitioners. This article focuses on the alerting aspects of CAS-IAS services and documents the results of a series of surveys carried out at a UK cancer research institute over a four year period. By the first quarter of 1997, in over 50% of cases in a sample group of titles the shelf issue was more current, or as current, as the alerting services. The article also includes a mid-1997 overview of the CAS-IAS services available and lists factors to be considered by information practitioners in any evaluation of the document delivery aspect of CAS-IAS services. The conclusion is that the monitoring of service developments and their performance will have to continue for the foreseeable future.

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页码：37 / 48

页数：12