The Electronic Library: Volume 7 Issue 6

The Electronic Library Manager's Guide to Advertising

In the real world one of my tasks is to scan over 800 scientific, technical and engineering journals for an in‐house technical information bulletin. Sometime last year I came…

Automatic indexing in the Science and Social Science Citation Index CD‐ROM

A.E. Cawkell

It's hard to resist the temptation to produce once again my rather poor attempt at copying Tenniel's sketch from ‘Through The Looking Glass’. The quotation from the book…

Impact assessment on electronic publishing in the Federal Republic of Germany: part one

Ulrich Riehm, Bernd Wingert, Knud Böhle, Ingrid Gabel‐Becker, Manfred Loeben

The impact assessment on electronic publishing (EP) is a project conducted jointly by the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Centre and the Society for Mathematics and Data Processing…

Impact assessment on electronic publishing in the Federal Republic of Germany: part two

Ulrich Riehm, Knud Böhle, Bernd Wingert, Ingrid Gabel‐Becker, Manfred Loeben

The project's approach and focus as well as some results of phase I (1986) and II (1987) are reported in Part 1. Each phase of the project combined different tasks:

The social impact of recent developments in information technology

Estela Morales Campos

The paper discusses the ways in which recent advances in information technology and the greatly increased access to information are changing our lives at work, at home and at…

Archiving of electronic publications

Monica Blake

Using questionnaires and interviews, a survey was undertaken of publishers/producers of electronic information with regard to retention, storage and access. It was found that…

Text timesharers: sitting ducks for hungry dogs

Stephen Arnold

My concern this month is with the US timesharing companies — the organizations which brought databases to life and whose principal business is the delivery of information in ASCII…

PC Corner

Jim Roberts

I have now been writing this column for one year. If I am to last out another year, it would help if I had some more questions and feedback from you readers. Following an…

WordPerfect

T.D. Wilson

WordPerfect Versions 4.2 and 5.0, WordPerfect Corp., 1986 and 1988. Version 4.2: six floppy disks, plus Demonstration disk. Loose‐leaf manual (584 pp), Defining a printer…(27pp)…

The Open Book Initiative

Barry Shein

The Open Book Initiative is being formed to make available freely redistributable collections of information. There exist huge collections of books, conference proceedings…

News

Worldwide multimedia market: explosive growth forecast. The worldwide market for multimedia products and services will grow forty‐fold from $0.4 billion in 1989 to $16.6 billion…