Developing a common user interface for information searching.

This paper reviews the debate over a Common User Interface design across various hardware platforms and operating systems, for both CD-ROM and online searching of bibliographic and full-text databases. The implementation and further development of Z39.50 as an international standard for structured b...

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Published in:Electronic Library Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 283 - 287
Main Authors: Hollis R, Brunelle BS
Format: Journal Article
Published: Emerald Publishing Limited 1995 Aug
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
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Summary:This paper reviews the debate over a Common User Interface design across various hardware platforms and operating systems, for both CD-ROM and online searching of bibliographic and full-text databases. The implementation and further development of Z39.50 as an international standard for structured bibliographic data structures is also discussed.