Computer-based information retrieval system in medicinal and aromatic plants using a minicomputer HP-1000 system

Abstract

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">An experimental information storage and retrieval system in the field of medicinal and aromatic plants, based on the database of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Abstracts (MAPA) service of the Publications and Information Directorate is reported. The machine readable, database created from the first three 1982 issues of MAPA is designed for searches by keywords, first author, journal, language, and by subject groupings as followed in the printed version of MAPA. The search can be either single aspect of any of the above or in combination of different searchable elements with Boolean logic. The programs have been developed in FORTRAN IV on a HP-1000 minicomputer system.</span>