Electronic DTB, eBNF/eMeReC

Available from Consumers' Association, £65 for single user, £110 for two to five users

Rating: as a as an electronic information source

Electronic publication opens up all sorts of possibilities not previously available. As well as allowing vast amounts of text, pictures, sounds, and video to be stored on relatively small, portable, and durable disks, it also allows the information to be swiftly accessed with electronic linking techniques such as hypertext and sophisticated electronic indexing. All these facilities are seen on the world wide web, which is rapidly becoming the epitome of electronic information provision. Standards now emerging …