Re: IRIS, SPIN, COS, etc. James R. Brett 14 Oct 2002 15:38 EST

With hundreds of accounts open with a vendor, has anyone successfully migrated from
one vendor to another, or does it require opening a parallel track for the new
vendor and letting things migrate by themselves?

Jim

Charlie Hathaway wrote:

> I also sense that the biomedical academic community prefers COS.
>
> Kinda funny since
> SPIN is a .org
> IRIS is a .edu
> and
> COS is a .com
>
> Quoting Thomas Drinane <xxxxxx@DARTMOUTH.EDU>:
>
> > For what it's worth, I did an analysis a while back on faculty use of the
> > various search engines, and found COS by far the top choice.  Of course, that
> > may have to do with the nature of our institution, which includes a medical
> > school.  Different faculty might find other tools more useful.
> >
> > Tom Drinane
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