Aslib Proceedings: Volume 52 Issue 6

British official publishing in the Internet Age

Chris Pond

This paper examines the state of UK official Internet publishing in 2000. It discusses issues of design, content, archiving, electronic communication, copyright and points out…

An observational study of the information seeking behaviour of Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom

Robert Orton, Rita Marcella, Graeme Baxter

This paper describes the results of an observational study of the information seeking behaviour of Members of Parliament. It is argued that political life functions on a flow of…

A user‐centred approach to the evaluation of Subject Based Information Gateways: case study SOSIG

Maria Monopoli, David Nicholas

There has been a massive increase in the amount of information available to people as a result of the Internet and information seekers are expected to be in the position to…