Aslib Proceedings: Volume 48 Issue 4

Foucault's view of knowledge

Stuart Hannabuss

Knowledge, as represented in the history of ideas and in studies of knowledge paradigms and bibliographical structures, appears coherent and rationalistic. By examining the work…

More than just a name: the art of prospect research

Christine Jeffery

Prospect research aims to provide all the information necessary for the solicitation process (i.e. asking a potential donor for a gift), from compiling lists of names in the first…

Information security — protecting your assets

Judith Vince

This paper will highlight the legal aspects of information security and copyright laws, as well as global networking, remote access, single sign‐on and Internet security in an…

Machine translation: success or failure using MT in an IT research and development environment

Ursula Bernard

This paper discusses the use of raw machine translations in an IT research and development environment. Researchers use machine translation as a drafting tool for scientific…