Benifits of Registration

Administrative Advantages

• Save time, money
• Save effort, person-hours
• Access to multiple employers and training facilities worldwide
• Integrated payment plan
• Integrated marketing plan
• Greater EFFICIENCY

Searching Advantages

• Online services offer search by term, phrase, etc.
• Fields
• Controlled vocabulary
• Indexes
• Greater RANGE
• Online services offer SEARCH COMMANDS for:
• Creating search sets
• Word searching

• Search limiting
• Greater PRECISION  

Informational Advantages

• Qualitatively different kinds of searches are possible
• Easier to assess quality of information found
  More cues: authorship, institutional affiliation, reputation, references, ...
• Processing of search results:
  
  • Sort, rank, report, export, integration with Intranet/portal, ...
• Highly FOCUSED information that is actionable