1 Source: The British Library Annual Report 1994/1995.
2 SRIS survey of users, December 1993.
3 Manuscripts Students’ reading room user survey, 1995.
4 Source: ABOUTCIS.203 (Internet newsletter), 1996, Support Group Inc.
5 Source: Gartner Group Inc., Internet Strategies report, 1996, at http://www.gartner.com/whatsnew/inettv.html
6 Source: Network Wizards Inc. at http://www.nw.com/zone/host-count-history
7 Source: Gartner Group Inc., Internet Strategies report, 1996, at http://www.gartner.com/whatsnew/inettv.html
8 Source: Customised Information: Critique of Internet Surveys at http://www.demon.co.uk/mediamgc/custinfo/analysis.html
9 ARL Directory of Electronic Publications Online, 5th Edition, 1996, at gopher://arl.cni.org:70/11/scomm/edir/edir95
10 An estimate of 133,000 is in Metz and Gherman, Serials Pricing and the Role of the Electronic Journal, College & Research Libraries, vol. 52, no. 4, 1991. An estimate of about 130,000 for 1992 from Ulrich’s International Periodical Directory is cited in Estimating the Size of the Future Electronic Publications Industry (1994) BLR&DD Report.
11 A Survey of STM Online Journals 1990-95. S. Hitchcock et al, at http://journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/survey/survey.html
12 Several such projects are listed in: Sources of Digital Information, M. Fresko, British Library Research & Development Report No. 6102, also at http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/fresko/
13 Several such projects are listed in: Digital Collections Inventory Report, P. McClung, Council on Library Resources/Commission on Preservation and Access, 1996. ISBN 887334-48-3
14 There are numerous smaller initiatives not listed here, eg the Bibliomania Project or the Bartleby Project, each of which have some 40 titles.
15 Source: The British Library Annual Report 1994/1995, p75. Of this 181,000 total, 123,000 were monographs acquired in print form, and 68,000 were monographs deposited in print form, both for the London reference collections.
16 British Library IT Strategy paragraph. A20, at http://portico.bl.uk/iss/appa.html
17 A. Morris cites the following as an example: Dillon, A. (1992) Reading from paper versus screens: a critical review of the empirical literature. Ergonomics: 3rd special issue on Cognitive Ergonomics, 35 (10), 1297-1326.
18 Demand/Supply Survey of September/October 1995.
19 SRIS survey, November/December 1993, section 3.2.1.
20 Analysis of Usage of H&SS Material 1988/89: a sample survey of items requested April 1988 - March 1989
21 Analysis of Usage of H&SS Material 1988/89: a supplementary report on usage by date of edition 1980-89.
22 Library and Information Commission Public Library Internet Survey: first public report, December 1995, S Ormes and L Dempsey, UKOLN, at http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/publib/lic.html
23 G Kayam and S Turner (1995) IT POINT: Networking in the Community, in Networked Information in an International Context, at http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/fresko/
24 C Lynch (1995) A Summary of the Findings of CNI’s NIDR Research Initiative, in Networked Information in an International Context, at http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/fresko/
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