http://www.nlm.nih.gov/LECTURES.dir/internet_course.dir/nir.html (Einblicke ins Internet, 10/1995)
Network Information Retrieval Tools
- gopher: hierarchical interconnected menus
- WAIS: indexed full text, special-interest servers
- World Wide Web: hypertext/hypermedia
- Other: Grateful Med, hytelnet (gopher-like),
Hyper-G
- Usage statistics available online (underestimate Web usage)
Complementarity of Approaches
R. P. C. Rodgers, Lister Hill Center, NLM (May 1994)