Morning Becomes Electric:Post-Modern Scholarly Information Access, Organization, and Navigation

"The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent It" / Alan Kay

Abstract

Scholars are facing unprecedented Information Overload in their attempts to identify potentially relevant information sources. Electronic networks have not only expedited traditional forms of publishing but created new formal and informal opportunities for communication. Conventional methods of information management are reaching the limits of their effectiveness. To enhance access to information in the coming decades, systems that fully utilize the digital nature of a growing number of scholarly resources must be implemented.

 

 

Table of Cotents

 

• Scholarly Communication
  • Scholarly publishing
  • E-Communication
• Indexing and Abstracting Services
  • Biology
  • Engineering
  • Geology
  • Mathematics
  • Medicine
  • Citation Indexing and Indexes

• Access
• E-Journals
• E-Articles

• Transformational Communication
  • Intelligent Software Agents
  • Information Overload
  • Custom-Configured Institutional E-Journals
  • Just-in-Time Electronic Collections

• Organization
  • Conventional
  • Automated

• Navigation
  • Information Visualization
  • Auditory Browsing
  • Haptic Interaction
  • Virtual Environments

• "In The Beginning ... "

• References

Available At

[http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Morning.htm]