The current status of Chinese Biological Abstracts (CBA) is introduced, and the exercise and strategy for the application and future development of CBA is studied.

In recent years, We have made a big progress in our electronic publication industry, which is becoming a new economic growing point of computer and publishing industry. In this paper, a brief introduction of our managuement policy, technical properties and kinds of electronic publication is given. Some tentative ideas about its further development is presented, too.

This article contributes evaluation and selection of document CD ROM products. It presents five common evaluating criteria, such as content, search power, system requirement and installation, publisher creditability, and price. Three special evaluating points are also given for bibliographic, full text and multimedia CD ROMs. Reference tools for CD ROM buyers are provided.

This paper explains the protocol model specified by Z39.50 standard and addresses how to model it with DFA. According to the DFA this paper tries to build an object oriented frame,which consists of state classes,for implementation.

The paper introduces the software tools,functions,characteristics of the OCLC SiteSearch software and presents the importance of this software in building virtual libraries.

This paper, after analyzing the features of current applications in enterprise environments,suggests developing multi database retrieving systems for various information needs. And according to the requirements for network application by the multi database retrieving system,this paper advances a total solution for integrating current networks, databases and applications using an Intranet based Browser/Server model.At the end,this paper describes the designing principles of an Intranet supporting multi-database, retrieving system.

This paper discusses the definition and function of Internet Robots, and how to set up and run it.As an example,the process of building a Harvest robot is listed.The problems that should be noted are also presented.

This paper describes the development, problems and applications in future of automatic abstracting by computer. A few of techniques of automatic abstracting are discussed, for example, the frequency approach of measuring words,word-groups and relat ive-position words, the methods of  title and heading words, cue words, etc.

WinSPIRS is the windows version software of the SilverPlatter CD-ROMs.WinSPIRS is so thorough and perfect because of the principles by which it is developed. This article introduces the functions and some search features of WinSPIRS to people in order to help them understand it and use it, and gives a means to help them get more information in Internet.

This article introduces CERNET building and the challenges and choices that libraries are facing.The systems object,network architecture and function are given in detail.Then is shown a typical network system of library.

The paper presents a program design method for calculating the amount of reading and copying the periodicals.The statistic data is characteristic of being displayed and stored in graphic mode.