Online Review: Volume 15 Issue 3/4

Roger K. Summit

Roger K. Summit

Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Dialog Information Services, Inc., Roger Summit is an expert in systems design and information systems and has experience in many…

Telecommunications networking in online retrieval

Barry Mahon

Telecommunications are fundamental to the online industry and this article seeks to place telecommunications networks within the context of information retrieval. The history of…

New approaches in the training and education of online users

C.J. Armstrong

Following a brief introduction to the history of online and online training, this article surveys current training from the point of view of the trainers, the trainees and the…

Using nearest‐neighbour searching techniques to access full‐text documents

Suliman Al‐Hawamdeh, Rachel de Vere, Geoff Smith, Peter Willett

Full‐text documents are usually searched by means of a Boolean retrieval algorithm that requires the user to specify the logical relationships between the terms of a query. In…

What does the user look for from an online host?

Ulla Retlev

The paper examines the user's requirements from an online host, from the point of view of the inexperienced or non‐user and the experienced information specialist. The historical…

Marketing online services: product, market and strategy

Libby Trudell

This paper describes the characteristics of the online marketplace, and the strategies and tactics which have been employed in reaching that market, starting with an outline of…

Windows into the search process: an inquiry into dimensions of online information retrieval

Mary M. Huston

From diverse users' points of view, contextual frameworks are elaborated for the nature of the information technology, the information universe, and the information search. Within…

News

IT and society There oughta be a law. Too much of the UK legal profession is in the dark when it comes to information technology, says Professor Brian Napier. Speaking at his…