Editorial Board
Note from the publisher
The refereeing process at information processing & management
Honor list of referees for IP&M during 1985
Bibliometric application of Markov Chains†
An investigation of document partitions
Statistics in information retrieval experiments
Library—An electronic ordering system
Processes and problems in information consolidation
Building expert systems: F. Hayes-Roth, D. A. Waterman and B. Lenat (Eds). Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA and London, England xvi + 444 pp., $34.95, ISBN: 0-201-10686-8
An introduction to online information systems: a collection of the significant papers in the field of the online retrieval of information: D.I.Raitt (Ed.) Learned Information, Inc., Medford, NJ (1984). vi + 299 pp. $24.95 (Softcover) ISBM 0-904933-45-8
Options for electronic mail: L. Trudell withJ. Bruman and D. Oliver. Knowledge Industry Publications, White Plains, NY. (1984). 176 pp., $32.95 (hc), ISBN 0-86729; $24.95 (sc), ISBN 0-86729-104-4
Videotex/teletext principles and practices: A.F. Alber. McGraw-Hill Gook Company, New York, NY (1985) xiii + 498 pp. ISBN 0-07-0009-0
University science and engineering libraries: E. Mount. Second Edition. Greenwood Press, Westport and London. (1985). (Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science, Number 49). x + 303p., $35.00 ISBN 0-313-23949-5
Changing technology and education for librarianship and information science: B. Stuart Stubbs (Ed.) (Foundations in Library and Information Science, Vol. 20) JAI Press, Greenwich, CT. (1985) xviii + 188 pp. $47.50 (institutions), $23.75 (individuals), ISBN 0-89232-515-1
Automated office systems management: H. T. Smith,W. H. Baker, M. Sumner and A. J. Bate. Wiley & Sons, New York, NY (1985) 604 pp. IBSN 0-471-86148-0
The computer revolution in public administration: D. C. Pitt and B. C. Smith (Eds.). Wheatsheaf Books. Brighton, Sussex (distributed by Harvester Press) (1984). 214 pp., £ 16.95, ISBN 0-7108-0747-3 (hc); ISBN 0-7108-0742-2 (pb)
Mr. Babbage's secret: the tale of a Cypher and APL: O. I. Franksen. Strandbergs Forlag, Denmark (1984). 320 pp. Dkr. 320.00. ISBN: 87-872-0086-4
Mechatronics: developments in Japan and Europe: M. McLean (Ed.). Frances Pinter, London (1983). 129 pp. £ 16.50. ISBN: 0-86187-358-0
Computer graphics and applications: D. Harris. Chapman and Hall, London and New York (1984). 174 pp. £ 9.95 (pb) ISBN: 0-412-25090-X
Online information retrieval systems: an introductory manual to principles and practice: B. Houghton and J. Convey. Clive Bingley, London. Second Edition (1984). 205 pp. £ 12.50. ISBN: 0-85157-363-0
China modernizes scientific communication system
Communication audits: A U.K. survey
Call for papers
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