The Electronic Library: Volume 12 Issue 1

Television: multimedia information and entertainment facility

David Raitt

Convergence is even more the name of the game now, it seems. The promise of digital techniques is forging interesting and appealing new bonds between the computer…

LISA's move from SilverPlatter to Bowker — looking at the interface

Jonathan Stein

LISA (Library and Information Science Abstracts on CD‐ROM) will no longer be produced by SilverPlatter; it is being replaced by Bowker‐Saur's LISA Plus. The two products are…

Ariadne: the next generation of electronic document delivery systems

Hans Roes, Joost Dijkstra

Electronic document delivery is a concept which promises to solve end‐user problems in retrieving the primary information referenced to in bibliographical databases. This article…

Software for information storage and retrieval tested, evaluated and compared: Part VII — What to choose, or the purpose of it all

Eric G. Sieverts, Marten Hofstede

The more than 3700 data presented in the tables of preceding articles in this series, pertaining to 37 different software packages for information storage and retrieval (ISR), may…

Barriers to information technology in Latin America and the Caribbean: some options

Ketty Rodríguez

Jorge Sàbato, the Latin American scientist, predicted that ‘either Latin America dominates technology or through other countries technology will dominate Latin America’ (Sagasti…

Have you got what it takes … and are you using all you could?

Hilary Dyer

Information technology (IT) has been hailed as a great time and paper saver. How far is this true? Are you benefiting as much as you could from the computer on your desk or are…

Legal implications of EDI settlements in Europe

Judith King

As the use of electronic data interchange (EDI) in international trade becomes more widespread, organisations are having to consider the legal implications, not only of…

Flat‐bed, sheet‐fed and hand‐held scanners

Howard Falk

Scanners make it possible to transfer images from paper into computer equipment. Drawings (line art) and photographic images (halftones) can be picked up by scanners and then…

News

The electronic library scene Elsevier Science Publishers and Tilburg University are working together on a pilot project for the electronic storage and distribution of scientific…