Electronic bulletin boards and discussion lists are increasingly the forum for scholarly discussion. Electronic journals now facilitate the more timely exchange of theory and research among scholars. Videoconferencing's interactive capabilities promise to improve distance learning. New media add value to interactive communications, and provide powerful new means of accessing information to support teaching, learning, and research. A Caution Developing the mental framework necessary to successfully deal with such an evanescent tool as the Internet is the researcher's first step.
Constant growth keeps the Internet in flux.
Greater variability in the quality of information on the Internet differentiates it from traditional library resources. Presently, Netscape is the major access to the Internet. With Microsoft software, access the Internet through Internet Explorer . Access to Infoeagle is available at Boston College through the Ethernet connections on campus, at any of the libraries at BC, or through a remote location. The O'Neill Computing Facility, known as the Student Learning and Support Center , provides Internet access for any of the BC community without remote access.