Web Resources for Studies in Information Access by Andrea LaPaugh

This list was begun as a Web resource list for students in Computer Science 598b: Advanced Topics in Computer Science -- Information Access: Issues for the Web & Digital Libraries, offered in the spring of 1998 at Princeton University. I maintain it sporadically. The last time I aggressively updated it was while teaching Computer Science 598b: Advanced Topics in Computer Science -- Digital Information Access in the spring of 1999.

Princeton Resources

• The CAETI Internet Multimedia Library
• PRECISE - Princeton Experimental Cataloging and Information Server
• WordNet-- On-line lexical database for English
• The Consortium for the Development of Digital Collections at Princeton
• Princeton University Library Digital Collections

Outside Resources

Journals

• Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS)
• D-Lib Magazine, a "monthly magazine about digital libraries for researchers, developers, and the intellectually curious. New issues are published on the 15th of each month." (from home page) Produced by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives
• ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Conferences

• IEEE ADL '96: International Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries abstracts.
• IEEE ADL '97: International Conference on the Advances in Digital Libraries abstracts
• IEEE ADL '98: Advances in Digital Libraries Conference
• IEEE ADL '99: Advances in Digital Libraries Conference announcement
• IEEE ADL '00: Advances in Digital Libraries Conference announcement
• The First (May 1994) International WWW Conference
• The Second (Oct. 1994) International WWW Conference: Mosaic and the Web
• The Fifth (1996) International WWW Conference
• The Sixth (1997) International WWW Conference
• The Seventh (1998) International WWW Conference
• The Eighth (May 1999) International WWW Conference
• Proceedings of the ACM international conference on Digital libraries -- first through most recent (fourth): Digital Libraries '96 through Digital Libraries '99 --
• SIGIR Conference Proceedings on Information Retrieval 1985 - 1998. Only lists of papers are given for earlier conferences but full papers are available for more recent conferences.
• Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science 1996 Annual Meeting GLOBAL COMPLEXITY: INFORMATION, CHAOS AND CONTROL
• The American Society for Information Science 1997 Annual Meeting Digital Collections: Implications for Users, Funders, Developers, and Maintainers. I can't find the full proceedings online, but some contributed papers are online.
• Proceedings of the 1997 Search Engines Meeting (Bath meeting) organized by Infonortics Ltd

Other

• Information Retrieval, a book by C. J. van Rijsbergen
• JSTOR journal archive
• Kansas City Public Library Introduction to Search Engines
• Search Engine Watch a guide to search engines.
• Search Engine Reviews Chart
• Categorising the Web Search Engines, resources from the presentation at the 1997 Bath Meeting
• NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative Projects, Phase 1 (1994-1998)
• Announcement for Digital Libraries Initiative - Phase 2
• IEEE Digital Library Technical Committee
• Information Retrieval (Z39.50): Application Service Definition and Protocol Specification Library of Congress Maintenance Agency page.
• A Little History of the World Wide Web
• Digital Library Federation (DLF) "The Federation is a leadership organization operating under the umbrella of the Council on Library and Information Resources. It is composed of participants who manage and operate digital libraries." (from home page)
• Summary Report of the Series of Joint NSF-EU Working Groups on Future Directions for Digital Library Research, October 12, 1998.
• The Web Robots Pages maintained by Martijn Koster, last known to be at Excite.