Aslib Proceedings: Volume 53 Issue 10

Positioning techniques for location‐based services (LBS): characteristics and limitations of proposed solutions

David Mountain, Jonathan Raper

Location‐based services are touted as the ‘killer applications’ of the mobile information revolution. This paper highlights some of the technical characteristics and limitations…

Custom interfaces for advanced queries in search engines

Mike Thelwall, Ray Binns, Gareth Harries, Teresa Page‐Kennedy, Liz Price, David Wilkinson

Those seeking information from the Internet often start from a search engine, using either its organised directory structure or its text query facility. In response to the…

The five maxims of project satisfaction

Andrew Boyd

Software development projects are notoriously poorly managed. It is not uncommon for projects to be delivered late and over budget by a factor of 50% to 100% ‐‐ in fact, in some…

End‐users in academia: meeting the information needs of university researchers in an electronic age: Part 2 Innovative information‐accessing opportunities and the researcher: user acceptance of IT‐based information resources in academia

Eti Herman

This paper is the second part of a two‐part paper, which examines the transition to the electronic information era in academia. Seeks to establish from the published literature to…