(Really) getting to grips with the Internet: what it has to offer in the way of newspapers

Abstract

If information professionals are to gain control over the greatest information resource ever known—the Internet—they need to subject it to focused and systematic evaluation, in the same manner they once subjected major reference works, like encyclopeadias; from an information source point of view, the Internet has much in common with the encyclopeadia (millions of them). This article provides some early thoughts and data on how to do this in connection with newspapers on the World Wide Web. The article is based on an ongoing piece of research and some of its early findings illustrate the text. Swedish and British newspapers provide many of the examples.

Citation

Nicholas, D. (1996), "(Really) getting to grips with the Internet: what it has to offer in the way of newspapers", VINE, Vol. 26 No. 3, pp. 29-34. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb040611