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PSRS: a software package for textual database management and retrospective searching.

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Asif Osman Pakistan Institute Nuclear Science & Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
M. D. Idrees Pakistan Institute Nuclear Science & Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Abdullah Sadiq Pakistan Institute Nuclear Science & Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Asif Bashir Pakistan Institute Nuclear Science & Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Sadiq Fakhar-Ud-Din Pakistan Institute Nuclear Science & Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Naseem A. Bhatti Pakistan Institute Nuclear Science & Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Arshad R. Bhatti Pakistan Institute Nuclear Science & Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Abstract
PSRS is an indigenous software package developed at PINSTECH for maintaining different types of bibliographic databases. This package creates and maintains on-line searchable databases which can depending upon the operating systems be accessed by several users simultaneously. It can also be used as a general purpose tool for the storage and retrieval of information involving text data. Data received on magnetic tapes from the international Nuclear Information System (INIS), Vienna, as well as other locally generated databases such as Technical Reports (TR), Table of contents (TOCs) of journals etc. are being maintained on an ND machine with the help of this package. The paper describes the technical aspects of this package such as files inversion, compression techniques, etc. The software written in Fortran 77, is portable enough and with some modifications can be adopted on different mini/micro computers. It is also capable of importing data from INIS/AGRIS/ISIS/BRS standard formats. The package is being used at SID, PINSTECH for the last two years and is currently handling more than 7,00,000 documents as on-line facility. It is to provide Retrospective Searches and selective Dissemination of Information (SD) services to more than 200 researchers from all over the country who have registered their profiles at PINSTECH.
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Page(s) 45-49
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Published Journal: Nucleus, Volume: 32, Issue: 1--2, Year: 1995

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