Discusses current laws that can be applied to software piracy and methods to prevent piracy in organizations. Specifically looks at copyright and patent law. (JOW)

Presents a model for the purchase of computer-aided design (CAD) software: collect general information, observe CAD in use, arrange onsite demonstrations, select CAD software and hardware, and choose a vendor. (JOW)

Discusses the need for security and metering features for CD-ROM products. Topics covered include user productivity issues, pricing problems, integrated information resources, advantages of CD-ROM distribution systems, unauthorized use, content encryption, and multiple simultaneous meters. (MES)

Presents a layered architecture for hypermedia systems that uses the MHEG (Multimedia and Hypermedia Information Coding Expert Group) proposal to provide the desired independence between hypermedia applications' conceptual models and storage strategies for hypermedia objects. An overview of the MHEG standard proposal is provided. (Contains 16…

Reviews current developments in multimedia computing for both the business and consumer markets, including interactive multimedia players; compact disc-interactive (CD-I), including levels of audio quality, various video specifications and visual effects, and software; digital video interactive (DVI); and multimedia personal computers. (LRW)

Explains how Stanford University custom designed its own building maintenance and administration software package: the Housing Operations Maintenance Enterprise Resource (HOMER). Describes how HOMER relieved facility maintenance staff from some archaic systems, and its development and functionality. (GR)

Explains how to incorporate sound and video into Web pages with special software and HTML tags. Topics include creating sound files; sound formats; video technology; video formats; referencing sound and video files in HTML pages; embedding sounds and videos; players, plug-ins, and viewers; sound and video files from the Web; and streaming. (LRW)

Presents two binary programming models with a special network structure that can be explored computationally for simultaneous test construction. Uses an efficient special purpose network algorithm to solve these models. An empirical study illustrates the approach. (SLD)

Describes the use of digital ortho photography in the master planning process conducted at the University of Alabama that made planning easy and quick to do. What the benefits are in going digital for master planning are highlighted as is a description of what hardware and software are needed. (GR)

Describes new features, system specifications, upgrading procedures, and package options (including costs) for Office XP. (PKP)

It used to be that Internet threats were aimed at disabling their targets. The most common payload of yesterday's viruses, worms and other malicious code either caused system instability or, perhaps, deleted certain files. In many cases, these threats announced their arrival by flashing messages on the computer screen or causing some other…

The end of the year is almost here--? keep your students entertained with these dynamite software programs Whether you're creating a scrapbook as a culminating activity to the school year or gathering your pictures from this year for a memory-filled cd to send home with students, the author's selection for this month?s Editor?s Choice is a perfect…

Several quantitative studies have sought to determine the factors affecting the unauthorized copying of software, particularly in North America. However, we find no statistically reliable studies on the situation in Europe. In order to address this gap in the literature, we explored the attitudes to and factors affecting the unauthorized copying…

New Internet tools and applications are emerging all the time. Some are truly new; others are Internet versions of older technologies, or new versions of older Internet technologies. This article discusses some new Internet applications that appear to have implications for education and particularly for school libraries. These Internet…

To any library with an electronic collection of any significance, the OpenURL link resolver has (or should) become an indispensable service for helping its users retrieve full text from citations. Although they are a relatively new technology (in library terms, at any rate), link resolvers arguably have become as important as the OPAC; they locate…