ABSTRACT
While cyberspace has begun to affect a huge range of activities and interactions, in the spheres of commerce, entertainment and publishing, by emphasising the importance of data to such activities, locating information has become more important than ever. As we saw in Chapter 2, notions of an information society can be extremely problematic: at the same time, it is probably true to say that tools such as the Internet have had their most dramatic impact in terms of the dissemination of data, making readily available material that has often been difficult to access previously, whether because of limitations of geography, expense or membership of relevant bodies.
