Online and CD-Rom Review: Volume 22 Issue 4

19TH ANNUAL NATIONAL ONLINE MEETING AND IOLS '98

Paula J. Hane

This year's National Online Meeting and IOLS conference, sponsored by Information Today, Inc. (formerly Learned Information), were held concurrently May 12–14, once again at the…

EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND CHEMICAL DATABASES

Kristina Voigt, Rainer Brüggemann

The large number and big variety of online databases in the field of environmental sciences and chemistry underlines the need for a comparative evaluation approach. In this paper…

NEW DATABASE PRODUCTS: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND MEDICINE (ISSUE 12)

Martha E. Williams, Linda C. Smith

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

NEW CD‐ROMS IN BRIEF

Euro CD‐Book. Purchasers and other business professionals can see what manufacturers across thirteen European countries have to offer thanks to Euro CD‐Book, launched in the UK in…

CURRENT AWARENESS IN AN ELECTRONIC AGE

Jennifer Rowley

Technological developments such as the Internet mean that it is necessary to revisit the role and nature of current awareness services and even to reflect on the more fundamental…

FORUM

Brian McKenna

When the Institute of Information Scientists was founded in 1958 the Internet was still germinating in the Cold War bunkers of the ARPANET, the seventeen‐year old Pele was…

INTRANET WORLD

Brian McKenna

1. The Coming of the Intranet. In the wake of the Internet has come the Intranet. Figures for intranet growth abound, and they are all impressive. This year is expected to…

REVIEWS

Charles Oppenheim, Ian Tilsed, Alasdair Paterson, Jill Bradley, Stephen Pinfield, Brian McKenna, Anand Amlani

Haworth Press, the well known publishers in the library and information science field, have recently cottoned on to an interesting idea: devote a special issue of one of their…

NEWS

‘Neural’ Fraud Detective. The direct banking arm of theBank of Scotland, Banking Direct, has teamed up with Neural Technologies Limited to implement Decider — an ‘intelligent’…