Aslib Proceedings: Volume 51 Issue 4

Information retrieval and the perpetual innovation economy

Murat Karamuftuoglu

The main objective of this article is to show the increasing relevance of the knowledge production capability of information storage and retrieval systems in the context of…

Internet, intranet, extranet: managing the information bazaar

Ian Watson

The web has brought to the business world an inexpensive way of distributing corporate information to employees, business partners and customers. The term intranet describes a…

A national survey of the citizenship information needs of the general public

Rita Marcella, Graeme Baxter

This paper reports the results of a survey of information needs and information seeking behaviour of a national sample of the UK population. The survey was the first stage of the…

The migration of news to the web

Peter Williams, David Nicholas

Virtually all UK and US newspapers and the vast majority of regional and even local titles are now represented on the web. Indeed, the Yahoo news and media directory lists no less…