This year's NOM/IOLS offered keynote and plenary session talks by Ron Weissman,
Steve Arnold, Ron Dunn, and Joseph Kasputys; hot topics included knowledge
management and search engines oh, and also DialUnits.
What would happen if we had an independent panel of experts overseeing
the maintenance of a searchable and massageable "master table" comparing
coverage of key content from vendors?
Steve Smith begins a multi-part review of cancer resources with a focus
on the two most prominent Web resources offering cancer information for
health-care professionals. Page 23
Péter Jacsó declares that price and convenience, especially
for multi-volume databases and applications suites, finally will make 1998
the year of the DVD-ROM. Page 32
Terry Ballard reveals an innovative search approach that combines the
strengths of keyword searching with those of subject headings, and the
results are surprising! Page 58