Online and CD-Rom Review: Volume 21 Issue 2
Table of contents
SEARCH ENGINES ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL FROM THE INTERNET: A REVIEW AND EVALUATION
Xiaoying Dong, Louise T. SuThe World Wide Web's search engines are the main tools for indexing and retrieval of Internet resources today. Comparison and evaluation of their performance is of great…
INTERNET AND INTRANET USE WITH A PC: EFFECTS OF ADAPTER CARDS, WINDOWS VERSIONS AND TCP/IP SOFTWARE ON NETWORKING PERFORMANCE
Paul NieuwenhuysenThe experience is reported of access to the Internet from a common notebook computer connected to a local area network based on Ethernet and TCP/IP network protocols. Products…
NEW DATABASE PRODUCTS: SOCIAL SCIENCE, HUMANITIES, NEWS AND GENERAL (ISSUE 9)
Martha E. Williams, Daniel E. BurgardThis is the ninth article on social science, humanities, news, and general databases in a continuing series of articles summarising and commenting on new database products. There…
NEW CDROMS IN BRIEF
Abortion and Reproductive Rights: A Comprehensive Guide to Medicine, Ethics and the Law. Includes more than 20 000 pages of text, 200 slides, 500 graphics, audio segments and…
TEACHING ON DEMAND: A STRATEGIC ALLIANCE OF STUDENTS, GRADUATES AND TEACHERS
Ewan SutherlandDespite the recent opening of new buildings for the British Library in London and for the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the change in mindset for librarians is almost complete…
CLOSING THE LOOP
Dave Birch, Ian ShawSubscriptions and bills are inappropriate and inefficient means of charging for interactive services. We need to move to a software‐on‐demand, payment‐on‐demand model if online…
DEALING WITH DODGY CHARACTERS
As anyone who has ever had to clear up an OCR'd page of text will tell you, one of OCR's drawbacks is the cost of correcting character recognition errors. There are ways and means…
NEWS ROUNDUP
New Internet domains. The seven new generic Top Level Domains for the Internet, plans for which were announced in our last issue, have been approved by the International Ad Hoc…