BACKGROUND Telemedicine is the use of telecommunications technology for medical diagnosis and patient care. From its beginnings telemedicine has been used in a variety of health care fields, although widespread interest among healthcare providers has only now become apparent with the development of more sophisticated technology. OBJECTIVES To assess the effects of telemedicine as an alternati...

The Museum Data Exchange, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, brought together a group of nine museums and OCLC Research to create tools for data sharing, build a research aggregation and analyze the aggregation. The project established infrastructure for standards-based metadata exchange for the museum community and modeled data sharing behavior among participating institutions. Tools T...

Future plans of the California Ins titute of T echno logy Libraries (Brudwig, 1984) include an online analytic catalog of books, serials, journals, a nd technical reports . In an attempt to avoid the observation of Mandel a nd Herschman (1983) that " new technologies are often adapted to traditiona l uses without exploiting added capabilities" (p . 148), a number of innovative cataloging approa...

It is very easy to find music on the Internet today, but how it may be used is the source of considerable conflict, front-page news stories, and increasingly of scholarly reflection. One of the frustrations for libraries, archives, and patrons alike is the gulf between the information about a holding and actual access to it. But users are not the only ones to have an opinion about free access. ...

IN THE FIELD OF MUSIC, the impact of electronic information goes beyond research on music and writings about music to the processes of creating, notating, printing, performing, and recording music. The overview of electronic publications and information resources selectively covers: (1)bibliographic citations of books, articles, scores, and sound recordings; (2) electronic network resources; (3...

ED/INDEXED IN Celdes, CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastucture), CNPIEC, DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, EBSCO Discovery Service, Google Scholar, Inspec, J-Gate, Naviga (Softweco), Primo Central (ExLibris), Summon (Serials Solutions/ProQuest), TDOne (TDNet), TEMA Technik und Management, WorldCat (OCLC) ISSN 1611-2776 ⋅ e-ISSN 2196-7032 All information regarding notes for contrib...

Journal production was one of the first commercial arenas in which markup technologies took hold, and today most major (and many minor) journal publishers have journal content in SGML or XML data formats. However, over the past few years the introduction of XML and its many adjunctive technologies has reshaped the markup landscape. With many publishers having digital workflows that were establi...

BACKGROUND Since the mid-1990 s, there have been growing efforts to prevent cervical cancer in less-developed countries through the development of innovative screening approaches such as visual inspection of the cervix associated with same day management of cervical lesions with cryotherapy or loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP). In the past, promising cancer screening interventions ...

Postprint This is the accepted version of a paper published in Journal of Documentation. This paper has been peer-reviewed but does not include the final publisher proof-corrections or journal pagination. Enhancing social tagging with automated keywords from the Dewey Decimal Classification. Access to the published version may require subscription. Acknowledgments: This work in part results fro...