Communications of the ACM

Editorial pointers

Diane Crawford
Page 5

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News track

Robert Fox
Pages 11-12

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Encoding the law into digital libraries

Pamela Samuelson
Pages 13-18

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Whose Net is it anyway?

Nathaniel S. Borenstein
Pages 19-21

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Toward a worldwide digital library

Edward A. Fox, Gary Marchionini
Pages 29-32

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Interoperability for digital libraries worldwide

Andreas Paepcke, Chen-Chuan K. Chang, Terry Winograd, Héctor García-Molina
Pages 33-42

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Accessing distributed cultural heritage information

William E. Moen
Pages 44-48

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Digital access to antiquities

Henry M. Gladney, Fred Mintzer, Fabio Schiattarella, Julián Bescós, Martin Treu
Pages 49-57

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FedStats promotes statistical literacy

Cathryn S. Dippo
Pages 58-60

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New role for community networks

D. D. Cowan, C. I. Mayfield, F. W. Tompa, W. Gasparini
Pages 61-63

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Viewing multilingual documents on your local Web browser

Akira Maeda, Myriam Dartois, Takehisa Fujita, Tetsuo Sakaguchi, Shigeo Sugimoto, Koichi Tabata
Pages 64-65

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Distributed Chinese bibliographic searching

M. K. Leong, L. Cao, Y. Lu
Pages 66-68

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NSF-EU multilingual information access

Judith L. Klavans, Peter Schaüble
Pages 69-70

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A public library based on full-text retrieval

Ian H. Witten, Craig Nevill-Manning, Rodger McNab, Sally Jo Cunningham
Pages 71-75

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Students access books and journals through MeDoc

Albert Endres, Norbert Fuhr
Pages 76-77

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Discovery of resources within a distributed library system

László Kovács
Pages 78-79

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Initiatives that center on scientific dissemination

Marcos André Gonçalves, Claudia Bauzer Medieros
Pages 80-81

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R&D for a nationwide general-purpose system

Sung Hyon Myaeng
Pages 82-85

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Many projects that depend on collaboration

Cliff McKnight
Pages 86-87

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Libraries' new role in electronic scholarly publishing

Andrew E. Treloar
Pages 88-89

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Readers “thinking objectively”

Pages 22-26

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Semantic information retrieval

Annelise Mark Pejtersen
Pages 90-92

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Discourse analysis of user requests

Sanna Talja, Rami Heinisuo, Eija-Liisa Kasesniemi, Harri Kemppainen, Sinikka Luukkainen, Kirsi Pispa, Kalervo Järvelin
Pages 93-94

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Sorting out searching: a user-interface framework for text searches

Ben Shneiderman, Donald Byrd, W. Bruce Croft
Pages 95-98

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Strong vs. weak approaches to systems development

Iris Vessey, Robert Glass
Pages 99-102

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Yin and yang in computer science

A. C. Sodan
Pages 103-114

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On concurrent programming

Fred B. Schneider
Page 128

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