INTERNET in general and the www in particular. This is now becoming the accepted method of disseminating and sharing information resources in hypermedia. Information science research has also changed, with much research to find out, how the new technologies are being used, particularly e-mail and the web. In addition to user studies there have been attempts to extract new kinds of information from the web.
Being a global document network initially developed for scholarly use, it is now inhabited by a diversity of users, and the web constitutes an obvious research area for bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics.