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Volume 21, Issue 2
1 February 1987
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Program: electronic library and information systems
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Review Article| February 01 1987

Using the MULTIPLAN spreadsheet package to model online search costs

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7301
Print ISSN: 0033-0337
© MCB UP Limited
1987
Program (1987) 21 (2): 146–159.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb046966

An existing model for calculating online search costs has been converted to electronic form using the spreadsheet package MULTIPLAN. The electronic version of the model proves to be an extremely fast and powerful tool for updating search‐costs matrices for a large number of databases on different host systems. The model itself may be useful for investigating the microeconomics of online information retrieval.

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