In Article <2kd1ja$b46 at elna.ethz.ch> "tan at aeolus.vmsmail.ethz.ch (Song Tan)" says:
> Our lab is considering getting Medline on CD-ROM with either the Knowledge
> Finder or Silver Platter package for Macintosh computers. Both packages have
> apparently similar costs and functionality. One major difference is that
> Knowledge Finder provides 3 years of Medline on 1 CD-ROM (updated quarterly)
> whereas Silver Platter comes with only 1 year of Medline per CD-ROM (updated
I do not know how they store the information. However, from my experience,
i think that MEDLINE contains more information than KNOWLEDGE FINDER.
> We're leaning towards getting the Knowledge Finder package because of the fewer
> CD-ROMs, but I'm curious to know what other people think about either Silver
> Platter or Knowledge Finder, especially if you have evaluated both of them. I
> did look up the bionet archives with Gopher and found a few postings from 1992
> with some gripes about Silver Platter, but I couldn't find anything on
> Knowledge Finder.
KNOWLEDGE FINDER has a strange logic behind the search and i would like to
decide myself which information is relevant for me.
-Matthias
