Improving Access to Information on the World Wide Web is the text of the 26th Sarada Ranganathan Endowment Lectures delivered by Professor Carolyn Watters, Associate Dean,Faculty of Graduate Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, during 14-16 March 206 in Bangalore. These lectures discuss three research issues concerning the improvement of the effectiveness of the Web for information search and retrieval. First issue relates to relates to ...