... is a successor to the well‐received and well‐used Online Searching: Principles and Practice (Bowker Saur, London, 1990). In response to a decade of rapid changes in technology, the authors in this updated volume have focused much less on individual technologies, and more on generic information retrieval...

... to information about CEAL, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, South and North Korea. Contact: felsing@oregon.uoregon.edu © MCB UP Limited 1999 Internet Information retrieval China Literature Bibliographies As the fastest growing information medium, the World Wide Web (WWW) contains...

... of the book begins with Chapter 7, which discusses the basics of information retrieval. This chapter provides a snapshot of the entire information retrieval field, and for obvious reasons it gives a rather general overview of the field without going into much detail. The same is true of Chapter 8, which...

.... This is an A‐Z manual of thesaurus construction that places thesauri in the wider perspective of information retrieval. It is peerless in its lucidity and varied illustrations and diagrams. Various methods are illustrated with examples from current thesauri, and appropriate software is also listed. It is thus...

...Brenda Chawner Phil   Bradley . Going Online, CD‐ROM and the Internet. 10th edition . London : Aslib   1997 . 182 pp , ISBN: 0851423914 (paperback) price not reported © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> CD‐ROM Internet Information retrieval Bradley has...

... : Taylor Graham   1997 . 467 pp , ISBN: 0947568719   £45.00 soft © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Information retrieval User studies This weighty volume presents papers from the Conference on Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) held at the University of Tampere, Finland, in August 1996...

... Internet Information retrieval Due to the accelerated growth of electronic resources and the subsequent reliance on them by users, it has been difficult to assess the impact such technology has played on the search effectiveness of the average user. This publication selectively highlights a range...

...Lyn Gorman Pack , E . Women’s Wire Web Directory . Emeryville, CA : Lycos Press   1997 . 486 pp , ISBN: 0789710684   US$29.99 softback + CD‐ROM (available from Prentice‐Hall) © MCB UP Limited 1998 --> Information retrieval Information services Women...

...Richard Pang © MCB UP Limited 1998 --> Information retrieval Internet Written by a store manager of a computer software retailer, this is a practical step‐by‐step guide to using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer version 3.0 for Windows 95. Primarily designed to teach novice users...

... in a historical perspective as a subfield of bibliometrics. The new approach combines advanced information retrieval theories and methodologies with the scientific study of information flows. CIS aims to apply improved bibliometric methods not only to scientometrics studies and research evaluations of science...