“CD-ROM text indexing and retrieval systems which help alleviate information overload”

The paper seeks to show how technical developments in the authoring and indexing of CD-ROMs can help alleviate information overload. It begins by outlining the history of text indexing and retrieval before detailing current authoring software. The paper documents a series of projects which began with the Windows help compiler before upgrading to Microsoft´s multimedia viewer publishing toolkit. The latter has powerful yet easy to use text indexing and retrieval facilities. The paper concludes by arguing that modern CD-ROMs provide fast and efficient access to large volumes of textual material without imposing information overload on their users