Online Review: Volume 14 Issue 4

The use of statistical ranking to retrieve records from a gigabyte of text

Donna Harman, Gerald Candela

In February Online Review published a Letter to the Editor from Cyril Cleverdon. This letter was written in response to Roger Summit's paper ‘In search of the elusive end user’…

Copyright, licensing agreements and gateways

A.W. Elias

The challenges of technological developments in information distribution and management are traced through their relationships with concepts of ownership. A historical overview of…

Institutional markets for online services: analysis of supply‐side competition in the UK

Harry East, Vicki Forrest

Published statistics about the size of the market for online services are rarely presented with any provenance and are frequently full of errors. The statistics used in preparing…

The foreign‐language barrier and electronic information

J.A. Large

Users can access online and CD‐ROM databases regardless of geographical location. Data communication networks provide relatively cheap links between the user and host computer…

askSam

Tom Wilson

askSam: the text based management system for the IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2 and compatibles, Version 4.2, 4 diskettes, loose leaf manual (475pp.). Available from askSam Systems, 119 S…

FullWrite Professional: capable wordprocessor for Macintosh

Steven D. Cohen

FullWrite Professional is a wordprocessor with spelling checker, thesaurus, outline processor, page layout and graphic interface. The package allows users to design professional…