Online and CD-Rom Review: Volume 22 Issue 6

COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTERNET AND WWW IN EASTERN EUROPE

Marek Sroka

The paper examines the commercial development of the Internet and WWW in Eastern Europe, with special attention given to such regional Internet leaders as Russia, Poland, the…

NEW DATABASE PRODUCTS: BUSINESS AND LAW (ISSUE 12)

Martha E. Williams, Harry A. Gaylord

This is the twelfth article on business and law (BSL) databases in a continuing series of articles summarizing and commenting on new database products. Two companion articles, one…

NEW CD‐ROMS IN BRIEF

AND Compendium 99. The AND Compendium 99 , from AND Publishers presents eight titles, from AND Encyclopaedia to AND Timeline.

COMPUTER AND INFORMATION LITERACY: CHALLENGES FOR THE MODERN INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL AT THE ADVENT OF THE XXI CENTURY

V. Sreenivasulu

[Editor's note: this contribution is a presentation given by the author at the International Federation for Information and Documentation Education and Training Pre‐Conference…

VIRTUAL COMMUNITY

Brian McKenna

The collocation ‘virtual community’ yokes together a hyper‐modern concept (the virtual, in the cyberspatial sense), and a more ancient one (community, in the sense of the quality…

SOFTCD: SOLVING THE INFORMATION BOTTLENECK

A fundamental dilemma faced by today's professional information distributors is whether to use CD‐ROM or Web site or both. The CD‐ROM, and its successor DVD (Digital Versatile…

REVIEWS

Lisa Billingham, Jane Read, Ian Owens

The encyclopaedia has comprehensive coverage, and includes articles, video, animation, sound clips, still photographs, and graphics. It also includes ‘bubble views’…

NEWS

Consciousness rising. UK public awareness of digital TV is increasing, according to a report based on research from Gallup commissioned by Pace Micro Technology.