M. E. Lesk, ``Electronic Libraries and Electronic Journals'' British Library, London, 1993. Tenth British Library Research Lecture, ISBN 0-7123-3287-1.

M. E. Lesk, ``The CORE Electronic Chemistry Library'' Proc. 14th ACM SIGIR Conference, 93-112, Chicago, October 13-16, 1991

M. E. Lesk `` Computer Software for Information Management'' Scientific American, 251 (3), pp. 162-172, Sept. 1984

M. Lesk, ``Experiments on Access to Digital Libraries: How can Images and Text'' be Used Together? Proc. 20th VLDB Conference, pp. 655-667, Santiago, Chile, September, 1994 (Invited keynote talk).

M. Lesk ``How can digital information be protected'' Research Challenges in the Economics of Information CNRS, Poigny-le-Foret, France, July 1993

Michael E. Lesk, ``Electronic Chemical Journals'' Analytical Chemistry, 66 (14), pp 747A-755A, July 15, 1994

T. Landauer, D. E. Egan, J. R. Remde, M. E. Lesk, C. C. Lochbaum, and R. D. Ketchum; ``Enhancing the usability of text through computer delivery and formative evluation: the SuperBook project'' pp. 71-136 in Empirical Issues in Hypertext, ed. C. McKnight and A. Dillon, 1992.

Preservation of New Technology, M. E. Lesk, Commission on Preservation and Access, Oct. 1992

Michael Lesk, ``Pricing electronic information'' Serials Review, 18, (1-2), pp. 38-40, Spring-Summer 1992

``Safe not sorry'' M. Lesk, New Scientist, 130, (1772), p. 2, 1991 (letter to the editor).

D. E. Egan, M. E. Lesk, R. D. Ketchum, C. C. Lochbaum, J. R. Remde, M. Littman, and T. K. Landauer; ``Hypertext for the Electronic Library? CORE sample results'' Proc. Hypertext '91, pp. 299-312, San Antonio, 15-18 Dec. 1991

M. E. Lesk, ``Television Libraries for Workstations: An All-Digital Storage, Transmission and Display System for Low-Rate Video,'' Multimedia information. Proceedings of the Second International Information Research Conference, pp. 187-194, ed.Mary Feeney and Shirley Day, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK, 15-18 July 1991.

``Image formats for preservation and access'' Michael Lesk Information Technology and Libraries, 9, (4), pp. 300-308 Dec. 1990 (Previously a report of the Commission on Preservation and Access).

``Images in Document Retrieval: Extraction of Figures from Pages'' M. E. Lesk Proc. Anglo-French-US Meeting on Image Storage in Museums and Libraries, British Library, 1990

``Packets vs Circuits: A 19th Century Case Study'' M. E. Lesk, Algorithms, 1.5, pp. 16-19, July 1990

M. E. Lesk, ``Full Text Retrieval with Graphics'' Bridging the Communication Gap, NATO AGARD Conference Preprint No. 487, pp. 5-1 to 5-13 1990.

M. E. Lesk, ``What to Do When There's Too Much Information'' Proc. Hypertext '89, pp. 305-318, ACM Press, Nov. 1989

``Information Retrieval'' M. E. Lesk, The Weaver, pp. 6-7 1989.

M. E. Lesk, ``They Said True Things, but Called Them By Wrong Names \- Vocabulary Problems Over Time in Retrieval,'' Proc. 1988 Waterloo OED conference, pp. 1-10, Waterloo, Ontario, 1988.

M. E. Lesk, ``Should Networks Be Designed Bottom-Up or Top-Down?'' Proc. Australian Unix Users Group, Melbourne, 1988, (Invited keynote address).

M. E. Lesk ``Word Manipulation in Online Catalog Searching: Using the Unix System for Library Experiments,'' Proc. 1988 EUUG Meeting (April 11-15), pp. 135-47, London, England, 1988

M. E. Lesk, ``Can Unix Survive Secret Source Code?'' Computing Systems, 1, pp. 189-199, 1988.

M. E. Lesk, ``GRAB \- Inverted Indexes with Low Storage Overhead'' Computing Systems, 1, pp. 207-220 1988.

M. E. Lesk ``Can Machine-Readable Dictionaries Replace a Thesaurus for'' Searches in Online Catalogs? Proc. 3rd Annual Conference of the UW Centre for the New OED, The Uses of Large Text Databases, pp. 65-74, Waterloo, Ontario, November 1987.

M. E. Lesk ``Why Use Words to Label Ideas: The Uses of Dictionaries and Thesauri in Information Retrieval,'' Proc. EEC Conf. on Automating the Lexicon, Marina di Grosseto, Italy, May, 1986 (Proceedings to appear, Oxford University Press).

M. E. Lesk, `` Automatic Sense Disambiguation Using Machine Readable Dictionaries: How to Tell a Pine Cone from an Ice Cream Cone,'' Proc. 1986 SIGDOC Conference, Toronto, Ontario, June, 1986

M. E. Lesk, ``Why I want the OED on My Computer, and When I'm Likely to Have It'' SIGCUE OUTLOOK, pp. 62-66, Spring/Summer 1986

M. E. Lesk Proc. 8th Int'l SIGIR Conference, ``Graphical Information Resources: Maps and Beyond'' pp. 2-8, Montreal, Quebec, June, 1985 (Invited keynote address).

M. E. Lesk, ``Programming Languages for Text and Knowledge Processing'' Ann. Rev. of Information Science and Technology, pp. 97-128 1984.

R. J. Elliott and M. E. Lesk; ``Data Structures for Street Maps'' National Communications Forum, 38, pp. 625-629 Chicago (O'Hare), Sept. 1984.

M. E. Lesk, ``Technology Driven Software Meets User Psychology: Irresistible Force and Immovable Object,'' USENIX Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, July 1983 (Invited keynote address).

V. J. Geller and M. E. Lesk; ``User Interfaces to Information Systems: Choices vs. Commands'' Proc. 6th Int. ACM SIGIR Conference, pp. 130-135, Bethesda, Md. June 1983.

``An Online Catalog Offering Menu and Keyword User Interfaces'' V. J. Geller and M. E. Lesk Proc. 4th National Online Meeting, pp. 159-166. New York, April 1983.

R. J. Elliott and M. E. Lesk; ``Route Finding in Street Maps by Computers and People'' Proc. Nat'l Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 258-261, Pittsburgh, Penn., August 1982.

M. E. Lesk, ``Combining Data Bases: National and Cartographic Files'' Proc. AFIPS Office Automation Conference, pp. 415-426, San Francisco, California, April 1982.

D. A. Nowitz and M. E. Lesk; ``Implementation of a Unix network'' Computer Communications, 5, (1), pp. 30-34, 1982.

M. E. Lesk, ``A Programming Community on the Unix system'' Proc. Online '81 Conf., pp. 315-320, Dallas, Texas, Nov. 1981

``Another View'' M. E. Lesk Datamation, 27, (12), pp. 146, November 1981.

``A Dial-Up Network of UNIX Systems'' D. A. Nowitz and M. E. Lesk Proc. Compcon 80, pp. 483-486 Washington, Sept. 1980.

D. M. Ritchie, S. C. Johnson, M. E. Lesk, and B. W. Kernighan; ``The C Programming Language'' Bell Sys. Tech. J., 57, (6), pp. 1991-2019, 1978

``Language Development Tools'' S. C. Johnson and M. E. Lesk, Unix system readings and applications. Vol.1: UNIX time-sharing system, pp. 245-65 1987.

B. W. Kernighan, M. E. Lesk, and J. F. Ossanna; ``Document Preparation'' Bell Sys. Tech. J., 57, (6), pp. 2115-2135 1978.

M. Lesk and B. Kernighan; ``Computer Typesetting of Technical Journals on UNIX'' AFIPS NCC Proceedings, 46, pp. 879-888, Dallas, Texas, June 1977.

``Metastable a-triplet-Pi (apologies, HTML limits) 13-Carbon Monoxide, Molecular-Beam Electric Resonance Measurements of the Fine Structure, Hyperfine Structure and Dipole Moment,'' R. H. Gammon, R. C. Stern, M. E. Lesk, B. G. Wicke and W. Klemperer; J. Chem. Phys., 54, (5), pp. 2136-2150, January 1971.

M. E. Lesk ``Word-word associations in document retrieval systems'' Amer. Doc., 20, (1), pp. 27-38 January 1969.

M. E. Lesk and G. Salton, ``Interactive search and retrieval methods using automatic information displays'' Proc. SJCC, vol. 34, pp. 435-446 January 1969.

M. E. Lesk, ``Performance of Automatic Information Systems'' Inform. Stor. Retr., 4, pp. 201-218 1968.

G. Salton and M. Lesk, ``Computer Evaluation of Indexing and Text Processing'' Jour. ACM, 15, (1), pp. 8-36 Jan. 1968.

G. A. Salton and M. Lesk; ``Relevance assessments and retrieval system evaluation'' Inf. Stor. Retrieval, 4, (4), pp. 343-359, Dec. 1968.

G. Salton and M. Lesk; ``The SMART Automatic Document Retrieval System \- An Illustration'' Comm. ACM, (6), 8, pp. 391-398, June 1965.

``Spectroscopic Constants and Vibrational Assignments for the B-3 PI zero u+ (apologies, HTML limits) State of Iodine,'' J. I. Steinfeld, R. N. Zare, L. Jones, M. Lesk, and W. Klemperer; J. Chem. Phys., 42, (1), pp. 25-33, January 1965.

Other papers

``New Access and View of Chemical Information'' M. Lesk Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 208, pp. 22-COMP, August 21, 1994.

``The library of the future is not the computer centre of the past.'' M. E. Lesk British Library R&D Report, pp. 1-15 1993.

``Image formats for preservation and access.'' Michael Lesk Microform Review, 21, (1), pp. 17-24 1992, (Previously a report of the Commission on Preservation and Access).

``BLEND-7: other studies and user commodities.'' D. J. Pullinger, B. Shackel, M. Lesk, and S. E. Robertson; British Library, Report Research Paper 81 pp. 33 1991.

``Electronic Journals: When?'' M. E. Lesk Optics and Photonics News, 2, (12), pp. 61,81 Dec. 1991.

M. Lesk, ``AI systems for chemical information retrieval - promise and performance'' Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 201, pp. 1-CINF April 1991.

J. C. Gray, R. Hayes, M. Lesk and S. E. Robertson; ``Information UK 2000. Additional contributions.'' British Library, BLRD Report 6023, pp. 65 1990.

``The shorter the better (technical documentation)'' M. Lesk ACM SIGDOC Asterisk, 11, (2), pp. 11-16, June 1985.

D. M. Ritchie, S. C. Johnson, M. E. Lesk and B. W. Kernighan; `` The C programming language'' Programming languages: A grand tour, pp. 364-85 Computer Science Press, 1983.

B. W. Kernighan M. E. Lesk `` UNIX document preparation'' Document preparation systems. A collection of survey articles, ed. J. Nievergelt et al., pp. 1-20 North-Holland, 1982.

D. M. Ritchie, S. C. Johnson, M. E. Lesk and B. W. Kernighan; ``The C Programming Language'' Western Electric Engineer, 25, (1), pp. 14-27, %D 1981

``The Cornell Implementation of the Smart System'' pp. I-1 to I-62 %I Cornell University Report ISR-16 Information Storage and Retrieval D. Williamson, R. Williamson and M. E. Lesk; September 1969.

M. E. Lesk, ``Design of a Revised Online Retrieval Information System'' Cornell University Report ISR-14 Information Storage and Retrieval pp. I-1 to I-58, October 1968.

G. A. Salton and M. E. Lesk, ``Relevance Assessments and Retrieval System Evaluation'' ISR-14 Information Storage and Retrieval, Cornell University, pp. III-1 to III-38, October 1968.

M. E. Lesk and G. A. Salton; ``Interactive Search and Retrieval Methods Using Automatic Information Displays'' Report ISR-14 Information Storage and Retrieval Cornell University, pp. IX-1 to IX-36 October 1968.

M. E. Lesk, ``Word/Word Associations in Document Retrieval Systems'' Report ISR-13 Information Storage and Retrieval, Cornell University, pp. IX-1 to IX-52, December 1967.

M. E. Lesk, ``SIG: The Significance Programs for the Testing of Evaluation Output'' Report ISR-12 Information Storage and Retrieval, pp. II-1 to II-22, Cornell University, June 1967.

G. A. Salton and M. E. Lesk; ``Computer Evaluation of Indexing and Text Processing'' Report ISR-12 Information Storage and Retrieval, pp. III-1 to III-67, Cornell University, June 1967.

M. E. Lesk, ``The Smart Automatic Text Processing and Document Retrieval System'' Report ISR-9 Information Storage and Retrieval, pp. II-1 to II-56 Harvard Computation Laboratory, August 1965.

M. E. Lesk, `` Specification Input to the Revised Smart System'' Report ISR-9 Information Storage and Retrieval, pp. IV-1 to IV-9 Harvard Computation Laboratory August 1965.

A. Priver and M. E. Lesk; ``A Smart Clustering Program'' Report ISR-9 Information Storage and Retrieval pp. VIII-1 to VIII-14, Harvard Computation Laboratory August 1965.

T. Evslin, G. Hochgesang, and M. E. Lesk; `` Vector Merging and Vector Correlations'' Report ISR-9 Information Storage and Retrieval, pp. XIII-1 to XIII-26, Harvard Computation Laboratory, August 1965.

M. E. Lesk ``Evaluation of Retrieval Results in the Extended Smart System'' Report ISR-9 Information Storage and Retrieval pp. XVII-1 to XVII-15, Harvard Computation Laboratory, August 1965.

M. E. Lesk, ``A Program to Evaluate the Iterative Search Process'' Report ISR-9 Information Storage and Retrieval, pp. XVIII-1 to XVIII-13, Harvard Computation Laboratory, August 1965.

M. E. Lesk, ``The Smart Program\- General Program Description'' Report ISR-7 Information Storage and Retrieval, pp. II-1 to II-35, Harvard Computation Laboratory, June 1964.

M. E. Lesk and Tom Evslin; ``Statistical Phrase Processing'' Report ISR-7 Information Storage and Retrieval, pp. IX-1 to IX-10, Harvard Computation Laboratory, June 1964.

M. E. Lesk, ``Procedures for Statistical Processing and Request Alteration'' Report ISR-7 Information Storage and Retrieval, pp. X-1 to X-24, Harvard Computation Laboratory, June 1964.

M. E. Lesk and Tom Evslin; ``Housekeeping Routines'' Report ISR-7 Information Storage and Retrieval, pp. XI-1 to XI-13, Harvard Computation Laboratory, June 1964.

M. E. Lesk, ``An Interpretive Program for Correlating Logical matrices'' Report ISR-3, Information Storage and Retrieval, pp. IV-1 to IV-17, Harvard Computation Laboratory, April 1963.

M. E. Lesk, ``A Comparison of Citation Data for Open and Closed Document Collections'' Report ISR-3, Information Storage and Retrieval, pp. V-1 to V-10, Harvard Computation Laboratory, April 1963.

M. E. Lesk, ``Attempts to Cluster Documents with Citation Data'' Report ISR-3, Information Storage and Retrieval, pp. VI-1 to VI-6, Harvard Computation Laboratory, April 1963.

M. E. Lesk and E. F. Storm; ``A Computer Experiment for Sentence Extraction'' Report ISR-2, Information Storage and Retrieval, pp. I-1 to I-34, Harvard Computation Laboratory, September 1962,