WinSPIRS, SilverPlatter's Search and Retrieval Software for the Windows
Environment, Enters Beta Testing

November 29, 1993 -- WinSPIRS, SilverPlatter Information Retrieval System
software for the Windows environment, entered beta testing at selected
customer sites worldwide in early November.

The development of WinSPIRS was the culmination of a 1-1/2 year project by
SilverPlatter's Interface Design Group--a team of designers, librarians,
information professionals and computer engineers.

WinSPIRS surpasses PC-SPIRS in functionality. WinSPIRS not only carries
over all the benefits offered by PC-SPIRS, but it also offers additional
features to help novice users understand and use sophisticated search
capabilities.

Automatic Subject Lookup (ASL) takes the user's natural language term and
maps it to the controlled vocabulary of the database to find related, and
often more precise, terms. This list of terms is then presented to the
user for searching.

For more comprehensive searches, WinSPIRS offers multidatabase searching.
Users can select more than one database, such as PsycLIT and ERIC, and
execute a search across all selected databases in a single step.

WinSPIRS also enhances existing SPIRS searching features. Using the
Thesaurus, users can select multiple terms and post them to a list for
future execution in a single step. And the Index function now includes
field-specific indexes. This new feature offers the option of looking at
terms found in a specific field, rather than every field in the database.
Plus users can immediately browse records associated with their index term
before executing the index term as part of their search.

Preview WinSPIRS with SilverPlatter's free demo disk. The disk guides you
through all the features of WinSPIRS and illustrates how easy it is to
use. You can choose to have the demonstration run automatically, or you
can select from a menu specific features to be demonstrated.

With WinSPIRS, SilverPlatter continues to bring the right information with
the right software to the service of its markets.

For further information or to get your free copy of the WinSPIRS demo disk,
contact a Sales Representative at:

SilverPlatter Information, Inc. 
100 River Ridge Dr, Norwood, MA 02062-5026
1-800-343-0064 (U.S. and Canada) or 1-617-769-2599 
Fax: 1-617-769-8763

SilverPlatter Information Ltd.
10 Barley Mow Passage
Chiswick London W4 4PH U.K.
Tel: +44(0) 81-995-8242 or 0800-262-096
Fax: +44(0) 81-995-5159

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