SOURCES OF DIGITAL
INFORMATION
This page leads to the British Library Research and Development Department
Sources of Digital Information Report.
From this page you can download the entire report (785 kB) or individual sections
of the report. The files are Microsoft Word for Windows 2 format; please read the downloading notes before downloading.
The report lists and describes over three hundred sources of digital information,
not all of which are available on the Internet. The sources are extensively indexed and
cross-referenced. The indexes can be used as follows:
- to look for sources on a particular subject, refer to section 6.1;
- to look for sources at a particular location (eg a university, library or company),
refer to section 6.2;
- to look for sources by name, refer to section 6.3;
- to look for sources by format (text, image etc) , refer to section 6.4.
To find out what is in the report in more detail, please refer first to the Abstract (n.b this is a word file)
Download the complete
report (785 kB)
or select one of the sections below to download it:
- COVER (eps file, 244 kB)
- CONTENTS and other front matter (9
kB)
- 1 ABSTRACT (8 kB)
- 1.1 What is this report?
1.2 What information is in the report?
1.3 How can this report be used?
1.4 How was the information obtained?
- 2. INTRODUCTION (11 kB)
- 2.1 Background
2.2 How to use this Report
2.3 Future Developments
- 3. FULLY-DOCUMENTED SOURCES (572
kB)
- 3.1 Definitions
3.2 Source Descriptions
- 4. PARTLY-DOCUMENTED SOURCES (65
kB)
- 5. PUBLICATIONS, FUNDING INSTITUTIONS AND
OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION (48 kB)
- 5.1 CD-ROM Directories
5.2 Commercial Databases
5.3 Europe
5.4 France
5.5 Humanities
5.6 Internet Resources
5.7 Japan, Korea
5.8 Periodicals
5.9 Resources Intended for the Visually Handicapped
5.10 Science
5.11 Other British Library Resources
5.12 Museums
5.13 eLib Programme Projects
5.14 Other
- 6. INDEXES (63 kB)
- 6.1 Index of Sources by Domain
6.2 Index of Sources by Location
6.3 Alphabetical Index of Source Names and Acronyms
6.4 Cross Reference by Format
- 7. SCOPE (15 kB)
- 7.1 Domain
7.2 Medium
7.3 Format and Type
7.4 Nature
7.5 Location
7.6 Attributes
- 8. METHODOLOGY (7 kB)
- 8.1 How Sources were Identified
8.2 How Information was Collected
- 9. LIMITATIONS AND OTHER ISSUES (21
kB)
- 9.1 Completeness
9.2 Growth
9.3 Issues Particular to the Internet
9.4 Non-Internet Issues
9.5 Consistency of Level of Detail
- 10. SURVEY INSTRUMENTS (13
kB)
- 10.1 Electronic Mail Survey Instrument
10.2 Postal Survey Instrument
- 11. GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS AND TERMS
(10 kB)
- 12. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (9 kB)
Please refer any problems with or comments on this document to the author, Marc
Fresko, at marc@easynet.co.uk
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