Schoonbaert D
Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium.
Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1996 Jan;84(1):63-70.
Three MEDLINE-on-CD-ROM interfaces are compared: SPIRS (version 3.11) and WinSPIRS (version 1.0) from SilverPlatter and OVID (version 3.0, DOS and Windows interfaces) from CD Plus Technologies. Though the database is the same, there are substantial differences among the interfaces in the way these data are presented and can be searched. These different approaches are discussed, and a detailed comparative table is included. It is obvious that all three interfaces are quite good yet none of them is perfect; each has desirable and unfortunate features. Together, they offer an enormous range of possibilities. Users would benefit if most of the better features (e.g., easy menu, free-text retrieval, pre-exploded thesaurus terms) were implemented in future versions of these interfaces and if system operators were given greater latitude to determine the system defaults appropriate to their specific situations and customers.
对三种MEDLINE光盘数据库接口进行了比较：SilverPlatter公司的SPIRS（3.11版）和WinSPIRS（1.0版），以及CD Plus Technologies公司的OVID（3.0版，DOS和Windows接口）。尽管数据库相同，但这些接口在数据呈现方式和搜索方式上存在很大差异。本文讨论了这些不同的方法，并包含了一个详细的比较表。显然，这三种接口都相当不错，但都并非完美无缺；每种接口都有其可取之处和不足之处。它们共同提供了广泛的可能性。如果这些接口的未来版本能够实现大多数更好的功能（例如，简单的菜单、自由文本检索、预扩展叙词表术语），并且系统操作员能够有更大的自由度来确定适合其特定情况和客户的系统默认设置，那么用户将从中受益。
