Research and reviews
Regular readers of the research and reviews section will remember our last issue which featured a research in progress report from R. David Lankes, an Associate Director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology and the Information Institute of Syracuse. The research that Lankes described in Digital reference on the Internet 7(4), 1997 is work that he is doing for a PhD at Syracuse University in New York State. I have just been informed that his work has been acknowledged by an ISI Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship. This award is sponsored by the Institute for Scientific Information and aims to recognise outstanding proposals for doctoral dissertations. Lankes received his award at the annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science in Washington DC in November 1997. It is a glowing endorsement of the quality of his research. It is also an indication of the leading edge that Internet Research provides its readers by publishing research in progress.
In this issue of the journal we publish another two excellent and interesting examples of research in progress. Both are Australian. Burgess is examining the use that Australian lawyers make of the Internet. The study is collecting data on usefulness and impact using self-administered taped diaries. Eustace is establishing an ethnographic methodology for mapping the "agora" of an Internet university called Paideia.
Once again, for those researchers who might be thinking about contributing a work in progress report to the Research and Reviews section of this journal, please do not hesitate to contact the editor by e-mail h.bruce@uts.edu.auor Fax 61 2 9514 2723. All contributors to this section of the journal welcome correspondence from fellow researchers.
Harry Bruce
