Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 25 Issue 1

Computerised storage and retrieval of structured text information: CDS/ISIS Version

Paul Nieuwenhuysen

The computer software package CDS/ISIS is suitable for the storage and retrieval of structured, text‐oriented information, such as bibliographic descriptions. Versions exist for…

Automation in the Department of Printed Books at the National Library of Wales: Part 2, cataloguing, retrospective conversion, enquiry and circulation

David Jeremiah

This is the second in a series of three articles describing the automation system, based on McDonnell Douglas' URICA package used in the Department of Printed Books at the…

Spoilt for choice? Optical discs and online databases in the next decade

Elizabeth Lyon

This paper presents a brief review of potential developments in optical discs and online databases in the 1990s, and describes advances in technology that may affect our use of…

CLSI's LIBS‐100 at Reading University Library

J.A. Arfield

In the late 1980s changes in the economics of computing led to the move away from computer systems shared between libraries to systems that were intended to provide a full range…

Indian Science Citation Index: a strategy

Bharat Bhushan, Banwari Lal

India has a prominent place in scientific activity among the third world countries. This is evident from its high production of publications in different branches of science and…