Aslib Proceedings: Volume 50 Issue 2

Checking research progress on ‘image retrieval by shape‐matching’ using the Web of Science

Tony Cawkell

The Web of Science (WoS) database has been intro‐duced recently by The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), but no applications of it have yet been described as far as I am…

Comparison of pricing structures of information on various electronic media

Eva Bertha

Today information products are available on various electronic media. Choices include traditional online hosts, databases on CD‐ROM or locally mounted, and the Internet with its…

Moving from experiment to reality: choices for cultural heritage institutions and their government

Lyn Elliot Sherwood

At many recent museum conferences, participants have demonstrated exciting projects presenting cultural heritage knowledge in digital form, whether as online resources or fixed…

UDC — into the 21st Century

Ia McIlwaine

The problems posed by automation for those responsible for the maintenance of bibliographic classifications have been widely rehearsed both in the professional literature and at…