Publisher's Synopsis
Electronic data banks make the research scientist′s everyday work much easier. To seek and find desired information, however, calls for a knowledge of the internal structure of a data bank. The first part of the book deals with this topic. The author leads the reader through the architecture of on–line data banks that are vital for natural scientists. He explains their structure in a step–by–step fashion and presents the basic concepts of data–bank theory. The second part illustrates how the scientist′s PC can extract information. Using the many examples of searches in various data banks, even a user with little interest in theory can achieve success on–line.
