Online and CD-Rom Review: Volume 18 Issue 4

COMPARISON OF SOME WIDESPREAD CDROM INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SOFTWARE PACKAGES

George Válas

Until recently there were very few publications dealing with comparison of different CDROM information retrieval software packages (Richards & Robinson 1993). The few exceptions…

THE INTERNET WORLD: ITS PROTOCOLS AND MAINSTREAM SERVICES

R.E. Leon

In this article we review the Internet's protocols and mainstream services. Section I provides an overview of the Internet's history and its bodies. Section 2 looks at the…

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE (ISSUE 4)

Martha E. Williams, Linda C. Smith

This is the fourth article on Science, Technology and Medicine (STM) Databases in a continuing series of articles summarizing and commenting on new database products. Two…

TEACHING ONLINE

Hilary Dyer

The past. Exactly 10 years ago to the day (as this is being written), the author began teaching in information and library studies. At that time, the main computing resource was a…

CDROM DRIVES

Much has happened since we last updated on this subject a year ago. In particular, price reductions of up to 70% in some instances mean that single drives have become commodity…

NEWS ROUNDUP

Paul Blake

UMI goes online. The information industry is going through some dramatic changes and this is well illustrated by the unveiling of a new service from UMI. It is to launch an online…