Reports on a series of 10 guides on various methods of teaching, learning, and assessing geography in higher education published by the Geography Discipline Network (GDN). Also, reports on the production of a database of good educational practices on the World Wide Web by GDN group. Includes contact and ordering information. (DSK)

Describes a study that compared a hypertext-based bibliographic retrieval system with a traditional Boolean-based system. Results, conducted with novice and experienced searchers, revealed that the Boolean system performed better for tasks with a large number of relevant items, and that searcher experience level did not play a significant role.…

Describes a morphosyntactic feature of the Xining dialect that is unique among all Chinese dialects: that is, the use of a preposition to express ablative nominal relationships. (Author/VWL)

Based on spontaneous data from 50 German children with specific language impairment (SLI), several aspects of impaired clause structure are explored. Findings are that children with SLI use more finite than nonfinite verb forms. (Author/VWL)

A group of 36 campus administrators, publishers, librarians, and association leaders have identified nine principles to radically change the scholarly publishing system, seen as necessary due to the continuing escalation of prices and volume. Principles focus on creating alternatives to high-cost journals, de-emphasizing publication quantity in…

Describes Washtenaw Community College library's participation in the international metadata research project known as the Cooperative Online Resource Catalog (CORC), based on Dublin Core (DC), a metadata standard. Creating DC metadata records of websites selected for 75 academic disciplines, Washtenaw investigates the useability of DC and the CORC…

Two senior administrators at the University of Delaware discuss the types of cost data that are ultimately useful for decision making and policy development. Describes the data collection format and provides examples of departmental workload verification data and departmental expenditures by object and function. Explains use of comparative…

Examines the sociotechnological impact of introducing collaborative technologies into the Spurlock Museum at the University of Illinois. Discusses online information technology to support asynchronous collaboration between curators and exhibit designers planning a new museum facility, and building a virtual museum by linking museum databases to…

Evaluates the claim of uniform size and shape restrictions in prosodic development using a cross-sectional database of English-speaking children's multisyllabic word productions. Suggests children's increasing faithfulness to unstressed syllables can be explained by different constraint rankings that relate to edge alignment, syllable structure,…

Proposes a model of the search term selection process based on an empirical study of professional searchers during the pre-online search stage; the model characterizes the selection of search terms as the navigation of different discourses. Six discourses emerged as sources of search terms: controlled vocabularies; documents and the domain; the…

More management professionals are using the Internet to support information gathering and research. This article examines the use and citation of information on the Internet: accuracy and timeliness, classification, and citation of information (electronic journals, online databases, listservs, e-mail) gathered via the Internet. Discusses ethical…

Provides an introduction to the communication resources of the Internet and provides several specific examples of business solutions in the areas of electronic mail communications, business applications software support, system design, and databases, Advantages and disadvantages for management when integrating the Internet into a business…

A hospital database was used for problem-solving activities in nursing education to enhance theory-practice integration and transition of entry nurses. Faculty faced a challenge in integrating the critically reflective curriculum with the highly prescriptive database. (SK)

Focuses on the Deep Web, defined as Web content in searchable databases of the type that can be found only by direct query. Discusses the problems of indexing; inability to find information not indexed in the search engine's database; and metasearch engines. Describes 10 sites created to access online databases or directly search them. Lists ways…

Provides an overview of the mission, structure, and resource base of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). Highlights include problems in meeting the information needs of a wide variety of educational practitioners as part of the mission; structure, based on organizational decentralization; and resources that are limited by…