Includes bibliographical references and index.

Basic concepts of information retrieval systems -- Database technology -- Bibliographic formats -- Cataloguing and metadata -- Subject analysis and representation -- Automatic indexing and file organization -- Vocabulary control -- Abstracts and abstracting -- Searching and retrieval -- Users of information retrieval -- User-centred models of information retrieval -- User interfaces -- Evaluation of information retrieval systems -- Evaluation experiments -- Online and cd-rom information retrieval -- Multimedia information retrieval -- Hypertext and markup languages -- Web information retrieval -- Natural language processing and information retrieval -- Natural language processing applications in information retrieval -- Citation analysis and information retrieval -- Information retrieval in digital libraries -- Trends in information retrieval.