Managing Information

ISSN: 1352-0229

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Volume 3 Number 10

October 1996


Contents


Editorial

by Moira Duncan
page 2


News

Sharp launches smallest flatbed scanner

page 4

High contrast greyscale monitors

page 4

Sanyo introduces first digital camera

page 4

Aslib announces a new electronic journal

page 5

Reuters Business Information and Financial Times sign global agreement

page 5

Dial Out

by Jonathan Eaton
page 6

CIS profiles available

page 6

New director at NPO

page 6

Sheffield University gets new centre

page 6

UK performance analysis

page 7

New president at ISI

page 7

British Library announces major restructuring programme

page 7


Online

Multilingual databases from Knight Ridder

page 9

Biosis announces partnership with AIC

page 9

OCLC introduces Bib Notification

page 9

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts aquires Materials Information

page 9

FT Profile launches Asia Intelligence Wire

page 9

Online Update

page 10

Dun & Bradstreet launches Access for Windows

page 10

OCLC announces updated version of SiteSearch

page 10

FileNet/Microsoft link

page 11

AIIM appoints UniForum

page 11

First electronic document system museum to be launched

page 11


Document Management

Improved imaging conversion

page 11

Spring Grove Services chooses Optech

page 11

The Information Society - Ermine and Twinsets

by Ian Watson
page 12


Internet

Cimage announces document management solution

page 12

Datalogic launches laser scanner

page 12

Report available from NCLIS

page 13

EMJ on the Internet

page 13

Launch of VNU Newswire

page 13

INN launches multi channel intercast network

page 13

BT announces approach to ISDN 2 pricing

page 13

Encrypted books available from Oxford University Press

page 13

Internet Update

page 14

EUnet Traveller for Nokia Communicator

page 14

Design Council launches web site

page 14

BioMedNet gets sister site ChemWeb

page 15

Shopping on the Internet with The Bureau from UUNET Pipex

page 15


CD-Rom

CD-ROM Update

page 16

Software and services CD-ROM

page 16

Medical devices and diagnostics

page 16

Digital soil map of the world on CD-ROM available from Microinfo

page 16

Food and drink CD-ROM

page 16


Library Automation

Information Dimensions forms agreement with Inso Corporation

page 18

Excalibur technologies announces Visual RetrievalWare

page 18

Digitization centre for the University of Hertfordshire

page 18

Pica and ALS join forces

page 18

Compaq announces product enhancements

page 18

Dataware launches Windows version 4.0

page 18

Corning and Boeing choose Basis Intranet solutions

page 18

Gloucestershire Council choose CAIRS system

page 18

Informix software integrates new software system

page 18


Europe

Friendly Guide for Open Information Interchange

page 20

New Study on Electronic Publishing

page 20

First SME Technology Days

page 20

EU Masters degree project

page 21

Crimea '96 - Libraries and associations in the transient world

by M E Burke
page 21


Managing Information @ Clifford Chance

by Heike Dieckmann
page 22-23


International Aid for Information Development

by Catherine Ware
page 24-26


Discover: Current Affairs

by Gertrude Erbach, Lynda Iley and Hugh Porter
page 27-30


Introducing an Intranet - The Management Issues

by Nigel Hannam
page 31-33


Internet Special

The Growth of the Electronic Property Centre

by Rita Marcella and Pamela Barnett
page 35-38

Plantin Doubts: Academic Publishing In The Electronic Age

by Oliver Bond
page 40-41

Project Acorn: Using Internet Tools To Provide Local Solutions

by Paula Kingston
page 42-44

Book Reviews

page 45-50


Electronic Product Reviews

The Times And Sunday Times CD-ROM

by Moira Doncan
page 53-54

Reuters Business Briefing Version 2

by Jonathan Eaton
page 55-56

Index