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Article: BUDDIE livens weak awards season. (Human Sexuality data base) (Database Review) (Evaluation)
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- Information Today
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- April 1, 1993
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This has not been a great year for awards. The Oscar nominees this year were weak. The Peoples Choice Awards were superficial as usual. The Grammies were unexciting. The country music awards were...well, it's hard to keep these straight, since there seems to be one every week or so.
The excitement and spectacle this year comes from the return - after a year's hiatus - of the BUDDIE award, presented by the Information Today Database Review for the Best Unknown Database. The BUDDIE casts deserved attention to meritorious but underused databases. It turns your attention to online gems that you may have overlooked. The three criteria for the BUDDIE Award are: 1. ...