USING THE WEB TO FACILITATE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC EXCHANGE

Use of the World-Wide Web among academics has grown explosively during the last few years. To date, most applications of the Web have focuse d on the storage and dissemination of relatively static information, i n part because of the cost associated with manual collating and updati ng of data. This paper presents an example of a dynamic worldwide data base devoted to maintaining inherently transient information: The data base accepts international travel itineraries submitted by individual academic psychologists, and makes them publicly available to potential hosts on the basis of various search keys. The objective of the datab ase (http://www.psy.uwa.edu.au/wave/) is to facilitate international e xchange among academics.