VINE: Volume 35 Issue 3

Survival in the knowledge economy: feeding the animal in our specialists

Janine Swaak

Money, time and brainpower are being frittered away in the search for knowledge and in reinventing the wheel, all at the expense of efficiency and innovation. Moreover, there is…

Interoperability of bioinformatics resources

Hiten Vyas, Ron Summers

This paper aims to supply an introduction to the bioinformatics discipline for information professionals, outlining how current information management issues are hampering the…

Review of the proposed interoperation of InforM25 and AIM25

Fraser Nicolaides

This paper seeks to document the initial attempt to effect interoperation between a virtual (distributed) union catalogue of bibliographical records and a centralised catalogue of…

Putting the human touch into knowledge management

Steve Thornton, Chrissie McCracken

The paper aims to describe the development of a practical approach to the provision of knowledge facilitation in a major research organisation.

World Brain and Mundaneum: the ideas of Wells and Otlet concerning universal access

Georgina Araceli Torres‐Vargas

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the characteristics of Wells' ideas and their differing from those of Otlet, starting from the premise that Otlet was a social scientist…

Reverse logistics programs: gauging their effects on CRM and online behavior

Alan D. Smith

To provide practitioners of knowledge management with a sense of the importance of reverse logistics as an important part of today's company policies, especially throughout the…

Awards for Excellence

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