Online and CD-Rom Review: Volume 19 Issue 5

LATIN AMERICAN DATABASES: AN ANALYSIS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

Octavio Alonso‐Gamboa, Rafael Reyna‐Espinosa

An interest in the identification, organisation and dissemination of local and regional information has promoted the development and production of databases in Latin America. For…

CDROM USER INTERFACE EVALUATION: THE APPROPRIATENESS OF GUIS

Victoria Manglano Bosch, Micheline Hancock‐Beaulie

Following a general trend in software development, CDROM applications are increasingly implementing Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). The general assumption is that GUIs offer…

SOCIAL SCIENCE, HUMANITIES, NEWS AND GENERAL (ISSUE 6)

Martha E. Williams, Ellen Sutton, Brett Sutton

This is the sixth article on social science, humanities, news and general (SSH) databases in a continuing series of articles summarising and commenting on new database products…

VIEW FROM THE CLASSROOM — PART ONE

Stella Keenan

Information and Society is the topic of a new course that was taught over one semester at the Department of Library and Information Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University at…

PRESERVING THE DIGITAL ARCHIVE

In most countries it is the law for a copy of every newly published book or journal to be deposited with a major library, so that it can be preserved for future generations…

INFORMATION PROVIDERS ON THE MICROSOFT NETWORK

Late August's launch of the Windows 95 operating system was publicised so extensively worldwide that readers are bound to know about it. An update does, however, seem in order in…