Online and CD-Rom Review: Volume 21 Issue 5

USERS' PARTIAL RELEVANCE JUDGEMENTS DURING ONLINE SEARCHING

Amanda Spink, Howard Greisdorf

Users' relevance judgements are central to both the systems and user‐oriented approaches to information retrieval (IR). A basic assumption of IR and online searching research has…

THE FUTURE FOR MEDIATED ONLINE SEARCH SERVICES IN AN ACADEMIC INSTITUTION: A CASE STUDY

Stephen Hewett

For many years, the cornerstone of any self‐respecting academic institution's reference and enquiry service was the provision of a mediated online search service delivered by…

NEW DATABASE PRODUCTS: SOCIAL SCIENCE, HUMANITIES, NEWS AND GENERAL (ISSUE 10)

Martha E. Williams, Daniel E. Bargard

This is the tenth article on social science, humanities, news and general databases in a continuing series of articles summarising and commenting on new database products. There…

NEW CD‐ROMs IN BRIEF

Update of the original 3D Atlas, launched in 1996: maps reflect changes in world boundaries and demographic information is substantially updated. Includes comprehensive statistics…

CLASSIFICATION IN THE MILLENNIUM

Nancy J. Williamson

Classifying classification. ‘Classification’ is a concept that means many different things to many different people. In the world of bibliographic information systems it usually…

PERCEPTIONS OF THE POSSIBLE: THE FUTURE OF THE INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL

Collaborate, collaborate. Collaboration and open‐mindedness were the emphases of a talk by Elspeth Hyams at September's LIST 97 conference in Hatfield, UK. Elspeth Hyams is…

SITEDIRECTOR: STREAMLINED WEB SITE MANAGEMENT

Managing information. Information providers and information users can suffer equally from information overload. Information providers can find themselves with a Web site holding…

NEWS ROUNDUP

The first to fall. US newsletter specialist NewsNet, which offered same‐day and real‐time access to business newsletters and worldwide newswires, has announced it is closing down…