Online Information Services in the Social Sciences
Contents include: case studies, describing how information is used
in the health, government, academic, trades union, media and other
sectors, with particular attention to online information practices;
drawing the lessons from the case studies; the major issues facing
service providers, including selection, metadata, usability,
accessibility, management, and building user skills; and the
future, covering both technological developments such as the
semantic web and portals, and organisational issues such as the
changing role of the information professional.
