VINE: Volume 26 Issue 3
Table of contents
IR on the Web: an overview
Jonathan FurnerIn a widely‐publicised article in Business Week magazine, three American journalists pose the rhetorical question ‘What's wrong with the Internet?’, and give three pithy responses…
Tracking new Internet resources
Roddy MacLeodThis article updates and extends previously published work by various authors in the New Review of Information Networking, Online, and Searcher: the Magazine for Database…
Thinking critically about information on the Web
Betsy AnagnostelisIn addition to the obvious problems of precision and recall in relation to information retrieval via the Worldwide Web, the data retrieved may be inaccurate or out of date, even…
(Really) getting to grips with the Internet: what it has to offer in the way of newspapers
David NicholasIf 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…
A guide to citing Internet resources
Phil CrossStaff at Boumemouth University Library & Information Services had been receiving requests from students for guidance on how to cite sources of information found on the Internet…
Verity agent technology: automatic filtering, matching and dissemination of information
Ed GordonThis article describes the use of intelligent agents to filter and categorise information and concludes with case studies of select Verity partners who have built unique…
Filtering information from the Internet: the Borges information filtering service project in Dublin City University
Clara CullenThe aim of the Borges project was to develop a prototype information filtering service for Usenet news and Web‐based services. Developed as a service that could be offered by…
NewsAgent for Libraries
Mark KerrNewsAgent for Libraries is an eLib project that will provide a personalised current awareness service for Library and lnformation Science professionals. As well as developing an…
Managing electronic information resources: the CaseLibrary project approach
Robin YeatesThis is a revised and updated version of a paper firstpresentedata Workshop on Electronic Information in Libraries at the Catholic University of Milan, 26 September 1996…