Online and CD-Rom Review: Volume 19 Issue 1

THE USE OF ONLINE AND CDROM DATABASES IN SPANISH UNIVERSITY CENTRALISED BIBLIOGRAPHIC SERVICES

Purification Moscoso, J. Tomás Nogales, Mercedes Caridad

Up until the late eighties, there were few information systems in Spanish universities that offered the user online access to databases. Reasons for this were the high cost of the…

THE POTENTIAL OF INFORMATION NETWORKS FOR LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION

Steve Harries

Continued professional education for information scientists and librarians is of increasingly vital importance, especially in the context of the changing role of the information…

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND MEDICINE (ISSUE 5)

Martha E. Williams, Linda C. Smith

This is the fifth article on Science, Technology and Medicine (STM) databases in a continuing series of articles summarising and commenting on new database products. Two companion…

CDROM — WHAT IS ITS FUTURE IN AFRICA?

Tirong arap Tanui

CDROM technology, though inherently part and parcel of computer technology, is considered separately in regard to library/information automation in African libraries. Library…

TARGET 2000 — THE NEXT FIVE YEARS

Stella Keenan

When this column was started two years ago it was established as an exercise in forecasting, with contributors being invited to shoot arrows at the year 2000 and predict what…

ELECTRONIC CHARGING MECHANISMS FOR INFORMATION

In this update we consider one of the hottest issues of 1995, with reference mainly to two commercial initiatives plus an academic prototype which could have commercial…

THE 18TH INTERNATIONAL ONLINE INFORMATION MEETING

The International Online Information Meetings are well established as the leading forums for both users and producers of online information services. In recent years, of course…

NEWS ROUNDUP

Paul Blake

FT unveils its shot at the end‐user market. Online/CD‐ROM Information 94 saw a host of new products and it is difficult to pick out the main highlights. For me, however, there was…