The Electronic Library: Volume 14 Issue 1
Digital information organization and use
Table of contents
1996 in focus
Ben JeapesA delight and a curse of editing The Electronic Library is the sheer variety of topics covered, and the fact that we have no way of knowing what is coming in from our authors. TEL…
News
OCLC is the world's largest library consortium and the British Library a national institution that is also a leading document supplier. The latest annual reports from each…
Experimentation with electronic document delivery in the BIBDEL Project at the University of Central Lancashire
Peter M. WynneThe author describes how the University of Central Lancashire has chosen to make electronic document delivery available to remote users in accordance with the requirements of the…
The virtual reference librarian: Using desktop videoconferencing for distance reference
Ruth A PagellDesktop videoconferencing, bringing together computing, multimedia and telecommunications, is one of many new technologies competing for our attention. Videoconferencing is being…
Electronic resources for Chinese studies in a global context
Peter ZhouThis paper is a study of the current trends and conditions of electronic resources for Chinese studies, based on a recent survey on the Internet of 29 Chinese libraries in North…
Security issues on the Internet
Judit Bar‐IIanIn this paper we discuss some basic notions of modern cryptography: public key systems and digital signatures. We show how theoretical modern cryptography can come to the rescue…
The Internet: Which future for organised knowledge, Frankenstein or Pygmalion? Part 1
Luciano FloridiThis paper is the first half of an invited paper given by the author to the international conference, promoted by the UNESCO Philosophy Forum, to celebrate the fiftieth…
The Internet: Which future for organised knowledge, Frankenstein or Pygmalion? Part 2
Luciano FloridiThis paper is the second half of an invited paper given by the author to the international conference, promoted by the UNESCO Philosophy Forum, to celebrate the fiftieth…
Optimising information services: How businesses and organisations deal with the critical success factors content, reach and information technology
P.J. HermansTwinfo itself is not a publisher but for more than 20 years has occupied itself with new developments in the publishing process. It has gained expertise in the field of online…
Document delivery and full text from OCLC
Rick NobleOCLC offers its online users access to documents and full text in a variety of formats. This article focuses on the document delivery options offered by OCLC within FirstSearch…
Digital library projects: Where they are now — Part two
Ben JeapesIn our last issue we looked at three of the six digital library projects in America that are receiving $24.4m of federal funding, intended ‘to dramatically advance the means to…
Internet software sources
Howard FalkSoftware is available for downloading from many Internet sources. This article lists and describes World Wide Web, FTP and Gopher sites where software is available, as well as…
Online facts — and online fiction
Peter KrugerThere is a reasonably clear‐cut case for putting reference titles online. In fact a large number of non‐fictional works are either partially or totally available in an electronic…
The information society
All Australians to get access to the information superhighway. New electronic information services including the Internet and access to Government services will become available…
New on the net
This UK financial services company has expanded onto the Internet. Now available is a free, downloadable tax calculator and (though this may be a bit old by the time this issue…
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0264-0473Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle