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- Every community has a library. The great things about the Virtual Community
- Library on GEnie are the huge volume of information stored in it, and the
- smart tools available to help you find it. Whether you need to find
- information for work, a term paper at school, a hobby, or for investment
- purposes, GEnie Town has the library for you. GEnie's Reference Center is
- just like a reference section.
-
- ARTISTic Information Storehouse
-
- GEnie's Reference Center helps you quickly find information that's
- important to you. Simply enter your topic, whether it is a subject you are
- interested in, a person you want to look for, or information on a company
- or product. Reference Center covers all major subject areas, including
- science, history, medicine, education, art, literature, business,
- computers, technology, and more.
-
- Like all of the ARTIST(R) databases, Reference Center has a computerized
- online librarian called a Knowbot. The Knowbot reads every article in the
- database for you and comes back with a response which in effect says,
- "Here's everything I could find about your topic. Tell me if it's what
- you're looking for."
-
- The Best References
-
- The Knowbot displays a list of the subject areas where it found a match
- with your topic with the number of occurrences it found in each. When you
- ask the Knowbot for more information, it will display article headings in
- sets of up to ten, with the most recent first. After your selection, the
- Knowbot will retrieve the fulltext articles or abstracts, whichever are
- available in electronic format. You complete your search in a matter of
- seconds instead of spending frustrating hours at the library.
-
- The Reference Center is a GEnie$Premium service, so be sure to check rates
- before proceeding. However, the Knowbot gives you a running tally of your
- total charges (not including your regular connect-time charges) so you
- don't get a surprise.
-
- ARTIST's Samples
-
- Let's say you're interested, for whatever reason, in finding out about the
- use of kangaroos in agriculture. When you first enter the Reference Center,
- your screen will look like this:
-
- GEnie REFCENTER Page 1260
- GEnie Reference Center
-
- 1. About GEnie's Reference Center
- 2. Reference Center Rates
- 3. Reference Center Information and Instructions
- 4. Disclaimer & Warranty Limitations
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- 5.[$]Search in GEnie's Reference Center
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- 6. Send Mail About REFCENTER
-
- P 1260?
-
- Choose option 5 to begin your search.
-
- After some login information, your next screen will look like this:
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- Welcome to Reference Center
-
- GEnie Reference Center Main Menu
-
- 1 Begin your search
- 2 See description of Reference Center
- 3 See rates for Reference Center
- 4 Return to GEnie
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- 5 Practice in the Reference Center TRAINING AREA
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- Your Reference Center charges: $0.00
- Enter #, <H>elp or <E>xit Reference Center?
-
- Choose option 1. Next you'll be prompted to search by subject and/or by
- year. I chose subject, then just entered the word KANGAROOS.
-
- While the Knowbot looks, it tells you a bit about what it's doing. It tells
- you, "I'm looking for the information..." Every minute or so, it flashes
- "I'm still looking..." so you know it didn't forget you. When it completes
- your search, your screen comes up looking like this:
-
- GEnie Reference Center
-
- Source Results
- 1 Medicine................689
- 2 Biology.................219
- 3 Agriculture..............62
- 4 Industry News............48
- 5 Newspapers...............13
- 6 Psychology...............13
- 7 Business Directory........8
- 8 Environment...............5
- 9 History: World............3
- 10 Popular magazines.........3
- 11 Education.................2
- 12 Business Management.......1
- 13 Engineering...............1
- 14 History: American.........1
- 15 Mathematics...............1
- P Modify this search
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- Your Reference Center charges: $2.50
- Enter #, <P>revious, <H>elp or <E>xit Reference Center?
-
- Wow! That's a bunch about kangaroos! I could narrow it more if I wanted,
- but let's see some of the offerings under Agriculture. By the way, notice
- how the Knowbot keeps you apprised of your charges. Here are the first ten
- entries (since the Knowbot shows them to you in groups of ten):
-
- There are 62 records which match your search requirements. I will display
- the first 10 record(s) now.
-
- Record 1
- 1540972
- Comparative aspects of food intolerance.
- Vergleichende Aspekte der Nahrungsmittelintoleranz.
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- Record 2
- 1539690
- Effects of spines and thorns on Australian arid zone herbivores of
- different body masses.
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- Record 3
- 1503371
- Lyme disease in the southcentral United States. A symposium presented at
- the Annual Meeting of the Missouri Academy of Science, April 28, 1990,
- Saint Louis University.
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- Record 4
- 1366461
- Parasitic zoonoses - problems created by people, not animals.
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- Record 5
- 1348983
- Home-range size and fidelity of western grey kangaroos (Macropus
- fuliginosus) living in remnants of wandoo woodland and adjacent
- farmland.
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- Record 6
- 1342896
- Wild animal resources: their use by aboriginal communities.
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- Record 7
- 1330986
- Studies on echinococcosis in Australia. III. Histopathological studies
- on echinococcosis of macropod marsupials in Australia.
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- Record 8
- 1322860
- Dermatophilosis in kangaroo.
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- Record 9
- 1304029
- Pest management in young vineyards.
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- Record 10
- 1237953
- Suspected lysosomal storage disease in kangaroos.
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- -------------------- Database Copyright --------------------
-
- Agriculture data comes from CAB Abstracts which is copyrighted 1994 by CAB
- Intl., Slough, UK and made available by Dialog Information Services.
-
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- Agriculture OPTIONS
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- 1 Get more record title Titles not yet displayed: 52 of 62
- 2 Get full record(s)
- 3 Redisplay items already seen
- 5 Return to the Groupsearch menu
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- Your Reference Center charges: $7.00
- Enter #, <P>revious, <H>elp or <E>xit Reference Center?
-
- You could keep going through the list, or pull up and display the full text
- of any of them you wish. Me, I'm dying to know about echinococcosis in
- kangaroos.
-
- At the end, the Knowbot reminds you of your total charges, not including
- GEnie connect time. Even a real Town Library couldn't be easier or more
- convenient!
-