Expert systems and their use in information science

The overall aim of the work submitted here was to advance and disseminate knowledge In the field of expert systems in information science. More specifically the objectives were: (1) to review the field to date; (2) to develop expert system prototypes which give advice on online database selection and, to a much lesser extent, search statement modification; (3) to examine the roles which information professionals might play in expert system development; (4) to examine the expert systems teaching and research being undertaken in Library and Information Science (LIS) departments in the UK, North America and Australia. [Continues.