Mechanisms for the Appraisal of Electronic Information Resources

Mohamed Niqresh

doi:10.5539/ies.v12n2p67

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Mohamed Niqresh

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Libraries and information centers have witnessed nowadays rapid and dramatic changes as a result of quick growth in communications and information technology with emerging of advanced techniques for processing, storing, publishing and retrieval of information
Definition of Electronic Information Resources: Information recorded in the memory which maintained past information to be starting point for present as well as the future where the book history which is the history of the human desire to save the inherited intellectual and made it available to subsequent generations over the ages of man where he tried to record his feelings and actions on walls of caves and caverns and on clay boards, palm fronds and papyrus and after that on the paper, cassettes records, CDs and on the computers and Internet
The answer to this question is determined by Wilfred Lancaster in two attitudes: The First Attitude: It is about everything that is currently available from electronic sources of information within the direct contact (ONLINE) or CD-Rom which is common at libraries and information centers and other agencies that deal with these techniques are the same sources of the traditional paper that we were dealing with its content and arrangement, but, it is stored and transmitted or restored electronically

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Libraries and information centers have witnessed nowadays rapid and dramatic changes as a result of quick growth in communications and information technology with emerging of advanced techniques for processing, storing, publishing and retrieval of information. There is a lot of electronic resources, which includes stereoscopic or voice forms accompanying information, but things should be taken into account when assessment should include evaluation and judgment on electronic resources element of reliability and constancy of the source in a specific location for unchangeable on the Internet which includes a refresh rate whether information is available on CDs, or files through electronic databases and data banks or available on the Internet All these facts made the researcher to conceptualize a concept or basis for evaluating electronic information resources as an important reference for information in the era of scientific great prevalence and multiplicity of forms in the electronic publishing as well as the media that carry the information

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