Aslib Proceedings: Volume 45 Issue 1

ELINOR: The Electronic Library project at De Montfort University Milton Keynes

Kathryn Arnold, Mel Collier, Anne Ramsden

In November 1990 Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University) won a contract to provide higher education in the new city of Milton Keynes, against strong competition from a…

Electronic journals — past, present … and future?

Cliff McKnight

Many people have suggested that the electronic journal would solve several of the problems experienced with paper journals. However, although technology has developed apace, the…

Towards a virtual reality library

Alan Poulter

It is argued that the current generation of online catalogues do not meet basic user expectations about how to search for information. After a brief examination of virtual reality…

Authoring a hypertext database — Experiences with HyperPAD

Zhang Baoming

In a hypertext database, the information is presented as a network of nodes connected by links. Such nodes may be text, graphics, audio, video, and even other software. Although…

An introduction to Quality Assurance and a guide to the implementation of BS 5750

Linda J Wedlake

This paper introduces the philosophy of Quality Assurance and traces the development of the British Standard for Quality Systems — BS 5750. The key components of the Quality…