Welcome to InfoTrain City
InfoTrain (City) is part of a collaborative project, the Training
Electronic Journal , involving departments of library and information
studies in universities in the UK and Australia. The aim of the project
is to help train LIS students in the technniques and technologies surrounding
the production, maintenance and distribution of electronic texts. With
the rapid spread of technologies such as the World Wide Web into libraries
and publishers, this is becoming an increasingly important topic.
This page is the entry point into the part of the project contributed
by the Department
of Information Science of City
University. The other DILS participants are:
Contents
Note: Each 'volume' has been designed and produced by different groups
of MSc students, and therefore each has a different format. At present
thee is no cumulative index or search engine, although it is hoped to provide
one in the future.
All these dissertations should be available
to interested people.
Volume
1, published June 1995.
Contains abstracts of dissertations published in 1993 and some of those
published in 1992.
Volume
2, published in December 1995.
Contains abstracts of some of the dissertations published in in 1994. The
remainder should appear in Volume 3.
Volume
3, published in March 1996.
Contains abstracts of the rest of the dissertation published in 1994.
Volume
4, published in March 1997.
Contains abstracts of some of the dissertations published in 1995.
Volume
5, published in March 1997.
Contains some more of the abstracts of dissertation published in 1995.
Volume
6, published in March 1998.
Contains abstracts of some of the dissertations published in 1996.
Volume
7, partially published in March 1999, but still under construction.
To contain abstracts of the dissertation published in 1997.
Courseware
One result of the collaboration on this project is the production of a
courseware package, for use by other LIS schools or organisations or individuals.
It is called 'Understanding
electronic journals: The InfoTrain package.
Useful links
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HyperJournal
Homepage, with lots of useful links to e-journals and sources of information
about e-journals.
About HTML
Here are some links to useful introductory HTML documents
First
experimental home page (historical interest only)
If you have any technical problems with our pages, please contact our
Webmaster.
Penny Yates-Mercer <paym@soi.city.ac.uk>
