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Presents a case studies of multiple authorship in South African biomedical papers. Relationship between the number of authors per paper and other attributes; Geopolitical source of the publication; Number of references cited per paper; Length of articles.

Examines the growth of scientific literature from conference presentations to the creation of journal articles in the information science field and other disciplines. Reasons for concern over the importance of conference papers; Lower rate of journal publication of presentation from the information science field; Proposed model for the growth of scientific literature; Aspects of conference presentations.

Focuses on a bibliometric study which seeks to provide a quantitative analysis of the authorship of `Nature, Science, and Cell,' from 1991 to 1993. Sources from which data was gathered; Results of the study; Implications of the results.

Presents a survey on the utilization of computer-based tools by members of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA). Characteristics of the respondents; Increases in the utilization of computer-based tools by the association; Employment of bibliographic databases; Changes in the MLA's researches.

Examines the relationship between citing and cited documents. Details on the attempts made to determine the relationship; Context and reasons for citing.

Evaluates on the articles published in the `Journal of the American Society for Information Science'. Attributes of best articles; References used by the best articles; Focus of the articles on information retrieval and online searching.

Describes the state of electronic medical records, their advantage over existing paper records, the problems impeding their implementation and concerns over their security and confidentiality. Purpose of the medical record; Paper-based medical record; Additional challenges for the health era; Implementation of the electronic-medical record; Benefits and problems of the electronic medical record.

Provides an approach communication in science. Influence of the model developed in the print-on-paper era on the approach; Importance of information technology to scientific communication; Significance of behavioral and organizational determinants on the development of the model.

Describes criteria to regulate the selection of journals that provide the researcher with the information being used in research. Declining research interest in a paper that is losing topicality, or becoming obsolescent; Definition of obsolescence; Replacement of the aging factor by some alternative use of the information.

Examines questions arising from a content analysis of Web pages. Basis for examination of questions; Review of data collection and coding process from earlier papers; Description on types of research necessary for complete answers to questions; Incorporation of results gathered to questions.

Editorial. Comments on the author's responsibility for preparing a paper free of spelling, typographic, grammatical, and other kinds of writing errors. Basic things to review in a draft; Reading journal guidelines before submitting a paper for publication; Pre-submission reviewing; Post-acceptance reviewing.

Focuses on the development of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS). Comparison of JASIS with other American Society for Information Science publications; Types of papers published in JASIS; Plans for electronic publishing.

Focuses on the aspects of authorship and scholarship in the Journal of American Society of Information Science (JASIS). Comparison of national and international authorship of JASIS; Titles and references in JASIS papers.

Focuses on the issues on the preservation of books and documents. Preservation of paper documents; Preservation and retrieval of electronic documents; Question of guaranteeing the authenticity and validity of documentation in electronic documents.

Proposes policies and standards for electronic scholarly publishing and offers approaches in evaluating disciplinary conventions. Characterization of three dimensions of scholarly publishing as a communicative practice; Examination of several paper and electronic publications; Value of peer review in scholarly publications.

Presents a bibliometric overview of library and information science in Spain. Analysis of the total production of two major Spanish periodical publications in the field; Differences in the nature of the papers selected to conform a sample; Distribution of methods over articles; Authorship pattern.

Describes the design of a prototype multiauthor multimedia document production (MAMMDP) system, focusing on how the system's tasks were analyzes. Complexity of collaborative writing of paper-based documents; Details on the work undertaken to design the prototype; Information on integrated broadband telecommunication; Detailed information on the task analysis performed as part of the development of the MAMMDP.

Presents a paper which proposes a computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) information system which is intended for remote medical imaging diagnosis. Uses of CSCW in medical imaging; Need for accessibility of technology and human health care resources to citizens; Importance of user interface in the design of the CSCW; Main steps to the user-centered methodology.

Presents a study which shows that examination of the time pattern of production allows independent evaluation of the component processes that generate the distribution of papers across authors in relation to informetrics. Reference to the Success-Breeds-Success or Cumulative Advantage model; Background information on the principle of Cumulative Advantage or Success-Breeds-Success; Conclusions of the study.

Presents information on an overview of the growth of work in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) over the last 40 years. Reference to several papers; Attention given to technology, applied problems and design usability; Development of major threads.

Discusses the measured word-profile similarities between citing and cited chemical engineering publications, and between publications citing specific highly cited papers. Relationship between word-profiles and type of classification; Mapping based on correspondence analysis; Publication distribution.

Assesses the viability of primary electronic publishing of journals while bypassing the costly ink-on-paper printing process and delivering an end-product that users of traditional science journals would find acceptable. Effectiveness and efficiency of New Zealand primary scientific communications.

Focuses on the failure to investigate the role of experience as a potential weakness of the navigational perspective based on structural knowledge development. Absence of data for non-expert users; Difficulties in the transition from paper to electronic media.

Describes how CHEMCONF, a formal conference on chemical education which was held electronically on the Internet, was planned, initiated, and carried out. Posting of papers in a listserv archive; Comparison with traditional conferences; Possibility of future chemistry-related online conferences.

Discusses the impact of electronic publishing in the Internet-like format on the nature of scholarly publishing. Derek Price's urn model of Lotka's law; Replacement of print-on-paper medium by electronic medium; Role of publishers on the future of scholarly publishing.

Investigates the existence of Soviet information scientist A.I. Mikhailov. Interviews with persons who have met Mikhailov; Substitute readings of Mikhailov's paper; The presence of impostors.