IEEE Computer, Guest Editors Introduction to Special Issue, 32: 45-50, Febuary 1999

DIGITAL LIBRARIES: Technological Advancement and Social Impacts

Public awareness of the Net as a critical infrastructure in the 1990s has spurred a new revolution in the technologies for information retrieval in digital libraries.

IEEE Computer, Special Issue on Digital Libraries, 32: 51-59, Febuary 1999

Federated Search of Scientific Literature

The Illinois Digital Library Project has developed an infrastructure for federated repositories. The deployed testbed indexes articles from many scientific journals and publishers in a production stream that can be searched as though they form a single collection.