Online and CD-Rom Review: Volume 19 Issue 3

AN ELECTRONIC LIBRARY BASED ON HYPER‐BOOKS: THE HYPER‐LIB PROJECT

Nadia Catenazzi, Lorenzo Sommaruga

Over the last few decades, technological development has had a major impact on libraries. Nowadays many libraries use electronic support for operations such as acquiring and…

AUTOMATED SDI SERVICE USING CDROM DATABASES

M. Krishnananda Herala, A. Sreenivasa Ravi, T.B. Rajashekar

Bibliographic databases on CDROM, although being updated less frequently than their online counterparts, can be used for providing an in‐house SDI (selective dissemination of…

FULL TEXT ONLINE AND ABSTRACTS ON CDROM: NEXIS, DIALOG AND ABI/INFORM

David G. Feinberg

NEXIS and DIALOG both offer full‐text online coverage of the magazine Business Week, while ABI/INFORM Global Edition on CDROM provides abstracts. A comparison of all three systems…

BUSINESS AND LAW (ISSUE 5)

Martha E. Williams, Sarah McDougal

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

AN INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL FACES THE FUTURE

Norman Desmarais

The last decade has seen the closing of several schools of library and information science in the US, including prestigious ones like those of Columbia University and Case‐Western…

INTERNET TRENDS AND EXPERIENCES DISCUSSED

‘The Internet, among other services, has given us a fascinating tool for browsing and exploring new worlds of information, has provided invaluable links among geographically…

ONLINE PAYMENT MECHANISMS

Peter Hyams

‘Imagine the situation where an electronic purse is built into your PC. At the instant you access an information resource you see in the corner of your screen “$0.75 fee: accept…

NEWS ROUNDUP

Paul Blake

NlightN breaks with the online past. An Internet‐based service has been unveiled which allows users to search 500 research databases, 14 newswires and three million World Wide Web…