Online Review: Volume 16 Issue 5

Full text daily newspapers: increasing international availability

François Libmann

More and more full‐text daily newspapers are becoming available online. This increase in supply, led by the English‐speaking press, whose language is spoken or at least read by…

Recognition of stages in the user's information‐seeking process during online searching by novice searchers

Amanda Spink, Colleen Cool

This paper reports results of an exploratory study to investigate the ability of novice searchers to recognize stages in a user's information‐seeking process. This study follows…

Accounting for user diversity in configuring online systems

Peter Woolliams, David Gee

In order to enhance, consolidate and differentiate online services, developers are increasingly becoming concerned with issues of usability. Lists of design guidelines and…

Eastern European information on DIALOG

Ingrid Chambert

During the last few years, political and economic change in Eastern Europe has naturally had a big impact on international affairs and this is also very much the case in a Nordic…

Online vendors' strategies for reaching the end‐user: DATA‐STAR

Richard Poynder

This is the second in Richard Poynder's series of articles about different host services' efforts to reach fresh users. The first, on FT PROFILE, appeared in Online Review Vol. 16…