Online and CD-Rom Review: Volume 20 Issue 2

THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ONLINE SEARCH STRATEGY FORMATION: A STUDY OF FOUR COUNTRIES

Julie Still

This paper discusses the results of a survey sent to online searchers in four countries: the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and Canada. The survey form provided a…

THE SPORT DATABASE: SOME COMMENTS

Uri Miller

The Sport Database is one of the most deservedly popular information tools in the field of physical activity and sport. One reason for its popularity is that the documents…

DESIGNING A PROBE TO EXPLORE HOME INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

Elisabeth Davenport, Martin Higgins, Mark Gillham

The authors are engaged in a three‐year study of home information systems in the United Kingdom. The project addresses cable and satellite, multimedia CDs and paper‐based systems…

NEW DATABASE PRODUCTS: SOCIAL SCIENCE, HUMANITIES, NEWS AND GENERAL (ISSUE 7)

Martha E. Williams, Eric Novotny

This is the seventh article on social science, humanities, news and general databases in a continuing series of articles summarising and commenting on new database products. It…

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING: A SUBVERSIVE PROPOSAL, AN EVEN MORE SUBVERSIVE PROPOSAL, AND A COUNTER ARGUMENT

Stella Keenan

In The Information Society (Oct.‐Dec. 1995), three authors presented arguments on the future of electronic journals (e‐journals) which raised key questions that should be…

SILVERPLATTER'S ERL OPTIONS OPEN UP FURTHER

Users of any Z39.50‐compatible search system can now access databases on SilverPlatter's ERL servers, regardless of hardware and software differences. ERL (Electronic Reference…

W3C The World Wide Web Consortium

The World Wide Web is the universe of network‐accessible information. The World Wide Web Consortium exists to realize the full potential of the Web.

NEWS ROUNDUP

Paul Blake

Web newspapers promise low cost searching. World Wide Web editions of three major newspapers have gone live on the Internet, offering either free or low cost access to full‐text…