Aslib Proceedings: Volume 50 Issue 9

The electronic academy revisited

Blaise Cronin

Fifteen years ago the author published an article in Aslib Proceedings entitled, ‘The electronic academy’, which assessed trends in distance education and open learning. The paper…

The Internet, a regional newspaper and the provision of ‘value added’ information

Peter Williams, David Nicholas

The Northern Echo has long provided its newspaper in a digital form. It is now looking to use the Internet to widen its customer base and information remit. To this end two…

Developing This is The North East

Peter Chapman

This paper discusses the creation of a major Web site by a major UK regional morning newspaper, and highlights consequent issues and possibilities which have arisen for the…

Internet law and information policy

Tamara Eisenschitz

A survey is presented of areas of Internet law of most interest to information professionals. Two sets of issues are presented; general concerns of information law as applied to…