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Metadata: a current view of practice and issues
Lorcan Dempsey, Rachel HeeryThis paper describes emerging metadata practice and standards. It gives an overview of the environments in which metadata is used, before focusing on metadata for information…
Peer review and the web: the implications of electronic peer review for biomedical authors, referees and learned society publishers
D.J. WoodThe Internet provides researchers with exciting new opportunities for finding information and communicating with each other. However the process of peer review is something of a…
A methodology to allow avalanche forecasting on an information retrieval system
R.S. Purves, M. SandersonThis paper presents adaptations and tests undertaken to allow an information retrieval (IR) system to forecast the likelihood of avalanches on a particular day. The forecasting…
Modularity: the next form of scientific information presentation?
Joost G. KirczThe development of electronic publishing heralds a new period in scientific communications. Besides the obvious advantages of an almost endless storage and transport capacity…
The calculation of web impact factors
Peter IngwersenThis case study reports the investigations into the feasibility and reliability of calculating impact factors for web sites, called Web Impact Factors (Web‐IF). The study analyses…
Information dissemination for better health in Africa with particular reference to Namibia
Brimah JallohThis paper very briefly attempts to describe the activities of the Commonwealth Regional Health Community Secretariat/Namibia Dissemination Centre based at the University of…
Manuscripts submitted for publication in the information profession in africa: a comparative analysis of characteristics of rejected and accepted papers
L.O. Aina, I.M. MabawonkuA comparative analysis of the characteristics of rejected manuscripts submitted for publication to the African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science and manuscripts…
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