Online and CD-Rom Review: Volume 19 Issue 4

TOLLBOOTHS, NOT BILLBOARDS: THE PARADIGM FOR INTERNET BUSINESS

David G.W. Birch

Money in general, and cash in particular, is not a fixed and independent entity. Cash has always changed its nature to reflect the requirements for its use. As society has shifted…

CDROM DATABASE SERVICES: A SURVEY

S. Subba Rao

Developments in information technology have revolutionised the concept of converting large volumes of information into machine‐readable form as databases. This paper reports…

A COMPARISON OF THE ACADEMIC INDEX ON CDROM WITH FOUR WILSON INDEXES ON THE OPAC

Betty Miller

Brooklyn College (BC) is a senior college in the City University of New York (CUNY) system. It confers Bachelors and Masters degrees and cooperates with the CUNY Graduate Center…

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND MEDICINE (ISSUE 6)

Martha E. Williams, Linda C. Smith

This is the sixth article on science, technology and medicine (STM) databases in a continuing series of articles summarising and commenting on new database products. Two companion…

TOWARDS AUDIO BOOKS

Preston Hoffman

For the last generation, would‐be seers have peered into their VDTs and tried to visualise the future of the book in pixels. But if in looking forward to the next century we pause…

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL VIA THE INTERNET

The Internet Society's INET 95 conference has just taken place in Honolulu, its main emphasis being on the World Wide Web. The event was twice as big as ever before.

WEB‐BASED SEARCH SERVICES

In the past few months a new breed of online search facility has made its début, accessible through the World Wide Web using any standard browser such as Netscape. Here is an…

NEWS ROUNDUP

Paul Blake

Secondary publishers respond to Internet challenge Two services have been launched that aim to combine formal published information with data offered via World Wide Web sites…