The Electronic Library: Volume 22 Issue 2

Information boundaries and libraries

Describes how libraries have created boundaries with increasing specialization. Argues that rethinking services and constituencies are key strategic tasks facing libraries wanting…

A simple relevancy‐ranking strategy for an interface to Boolean OPACs

A relevancy‐ranking algorithm for a natural language interface to Boolean online public access catalogs (OPACs) was formulated and compared with that currently used in a…

RoMEO studies 5: IPR issues facing OAI data and service providers

This paper is the fifth in a series of studies emanating from the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)‐funded RoMEO Project (rights metadata for open‐archiving). The…

Lebanese television archives

Technological advances in the information and communication industry have changed many other sectors as well. Written, visual or oral, digital information is transmitted…

Making Botswana an information society: current developments

This paper discusses current developments in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector in Botswana and the implications for moving the country toward an…

Are webliographies still in use?

Information retrieval has emerged as one of the most important areas of study in the field of information science during the past decades. Since the invention of the World Wide…

School library Web sites: 1996‐2002

In 1996, a content analysis of 50 school library Web sites from nine countries, provided an overview of the then current “state of the art”. In 1999 and 2002, the remaining sites…

Metadata for harvesting: the Open Archives Initiative, and how to find things on the Web

The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) protocol for metadata harvesting offers the prospect of resource discovery tools far beyond what is currently available to users of the Web via…

OPAC vs card catalogue: a comparative study of user behaviour

Even though use studies of card catalogues are quite rare, use of online public access catalogues (OPACs) has been extensively investigated since early 1980s. Yet there are not…

The revolt against journal publishers

In universities, research labs and the libraries that support their work, a revolt against current journal publishing prices and policies is rapidly growing. Underlying the revolt…

Information Representation and Retrieval in the Digital Age

Sharing Expertise: Beyond Knowledge Management

Thirty Years of Electronic Records

Instructional Design in the Real World: A View from the Trenches

Markets, Information and Communication: Austrian Perspectives on the Internet Economy

The Next Library Leadership: Attributes of Academic and Public Library Directors

Social, Ethical and Policy Implications of Information Technology

Knowledge Management: Current Issues and Challenges

Challenges of Teaching with Technology across the Curriculum: Issues and Solutions

Things Prime launches generic applications server software

British Library launches new secure electronic delivery service

GFI launches GFI Network Server Monitor

Emerald introduces online article submission and peer review system

Dialog announces API

Resource Disability Guides (5-8)

CILIP Launches EYLN

Textile Technology Index on EBSCOhost

UKSG International Research Award 2003

Limelight for Artifact

Thomson acquires BIOSIS publishing assets

Collins and xrefer form partnership to aid language learning in schools and at home

New site for free and open source software

Europe

UK

Thomson Scientific announces integration of Delphion and Derwent Analytics

STN Express v7 – Analysis Edition

Salford selects Talis Information Environment

Online Information 2003

Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984 now available via EBSCOhost®

Resource Launches Disability Database for Museums, Archives and Libraries

European corporate hierarchy data added to Delphion site

Web Site of South Asian Publications in the UK

ScholarOne forms partnership with Kyorinsha

UNESCO calls for nominations for Memory of the World International Register: UNESCO-CI (3.01b)

National Archives educational Web site explores British Empire

EBSCO Publishing introduces GLBT Life

International

USA