Online and CD-Rom Review: Volume 21 Issue 6

AN EXPLORATORY PROFILE OF PERSONAL HOME PAGES: CONTENT, DESIGN, METAPHORS

Marcia J. Bates, Shaojun Lu

An exploratory sample of 114 personal home pages, drawn from a home page directory available on the World Wide Web (People Page Directory: http://www.peoplepage.com), was analysed…

PROFILE OF AN INFORMATION CENTRE: THE SHELL RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY CENTRE, THORNTON

Richard Poynder

Shell Research & Technology Centre, Thornton, located just outside Chester in the North of England, is home to over 700 research staff. Its brief is to service the research needs…

NEW DATABASE PRODUCTS: BUSINESS AND LAW (ISSUE 10)

Martha E. Williams, Darren C. Du Vall

This is the tenth article on business and law (BSL) databases in a continuing series of articles summarising and commenting on new database products. Two companion articles have…

NEW CD‐ROMS IN BRIEF

Interactive multimedia CD‐ROM that charts the significant events in the motorcar's development. Includes archive video footage of selected motorsport highlights and land speed…

SCHOOL LIBRARIES IN THE UK: TOWARDS THE MILLENNIUM

Mary Mabey

School libraries, present and future. There is so much talk about the millennium at the moment that I thought I would share with you my vision of school libraries in the year…

INTELLIGENT AGENTS CREATE DUMB USERS (?)

Chris Locke

The mythological ‘Daily Me’. At the recent NetMedia 97 conference at City University I watched a presentation by Steve Yelvington, Editor of the Star Tribune Online in…

PUSHING BACK THE FRONTIERS?

Paul Murray

Technology for technology's sake?. It's been called one‐to‐one marketing on the Internet; it's been compared to subscribing to a magazine so that you never need to visit a…

HTML 4.0: THE BEGINNING OF MATURITY?

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published public draft proposals for HTML 4.0. While the W3C does stress that at the moment they are only draft proposals, it also expects…

NEWS ROUNDUP

AOL buys CompuServe…. In the battle of the giants, one had to fall: CompuServe is under new management. Its information service has been acquired by AOL and its network by US…