Digital Libraries in Computer Science: The MeDoc Approach

The MeDoc digital library project: Its goals and major achievements.- The MeDoc system — A digital publication and reference service for computer science.- Design and implementation of the MeDoc fulltext system.- Conception of the user agent — The user interface of the MeDoc-system.- Access to bibliographic data bases — The provider agents in MeDoc.- Provider selection — Design and implementation of the Medoc Broker.- Query transformation for heterogeneous provider systems in Medoc.- The MeDoc communication protocol.- The MeDoc library: Security aspects.- Cost models and accounting in MeDoc.- Ariadne, an interactive navigation and search system for computer science information on the world-wide web.- Grey literature and multiple collections in NCSTRL.- Digital publishing for conference proceedings on CD-ROM.- Books and journals in MeDoc — Experiences on bringing publications online.- Experiences in document conversions during the MeDoc project.- Digital books in MeDoc — A first analysis of usage patterns.- Use of MeDoc offerings in technical education.- The Stanford InfoBus and its service layers: Augmenting the internet with higher-level information management protocols.- Objectives, results and conclusions of the European Decomate project: Delivery of copyright material to end users.