Online and CD-Rom Review: Volume 20 Issue 3

CDROM TECHNOLOGY: WORLD SCENARIO AND INDIAN EXPERIENCE

S. Subba Rao

CDROM technology has been available for ten years and has become very popular in the last five. This paper presents an overview of the world scenario of CDROM technology and…

GERMAN EXPERTS' VIEWS AND IDEAS ABOUT INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET

Kristina Voigt, Johann Gasteiger, Wolf‐D. Ihlenfeldt, Bernd Page, Kurt Specht, Walther Umstätter

This paper reflects the ideas on the subject of the Internet presented by four German experts at the German Language Session which took place during the 19th International…

NEW DATABASE PRODUCTS: BUSINESS AND LAW (ISSUE 7)

Martha E. Williams, Sarah McDougal

This is the seventh article on business and law (BSL) databases in a continuing series of articles summarising and commenting on new database products. It has two companion…

DEVELOPING MODERN INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND SERVICES: AFRICA'S CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE

G.G. Chowdhury

‘Information is a resource’, ‘information is a commodity’, ‘information is the key to national development’ … we hear this over and over again in meetings, conferences and…

TAKING IT ONLINE, AND MAKING IT PAY

More and more owners of content are putting it online: perhaps out of reflex, as ‘everyone else is doing it’, or perhaps because they have a clear idea in their minds as to how to…

TEXT RETRIEVAL: THE NEXT STEPS

Text retrieval is not a new technology — it has been familiar to library and information professionals for many years. For example, among the vendors we will look at here, PLS…

DATASITE 1996

Datasite 1996 is a refreshingly user‐friendly CDROM title which contains IT details of over 9000 major UK companies from a broad range of industry sectors, including local…

NEWS ROUNDUP

Paul Blake

Web searching breakthroughs. Breakthroughs in the ability to search and retrieve up‐to‐date documents on the World Wide Web are promised with upgrades to two major search engines…