Aslib Proceedings: Volume 46 Issue 1

Standards: their relevance to scientific and technical information

Sandra Ward

Standards exist for many aspects of scientific and technical information and its management. This paper examines standardization from the perspective of an ‘ideal information…

Information consultancy services and development

Alan Gilchrist

Consultancy in the West is relatively big business. In 1991, the top 25 European consulting firms earned over £2,000 million. In 1992, income earned in the UK alone by the top 25…

Tools for the analysis of business information need

T.D. Wilson

China is moving towards a new form of economic structure — one based upon a market economy with all of the problems associated with that mode of organization. The stresses…

The 1991 Census on CD‐ROM: challenges for libraries

J.E. Rowley

The publication in 1993 of the 1991 Census on CD‐ROM by Chadwyck‐Healey makes the data much more accessible, cheaper and easier to use. The data is available in a variety of…