Abstract: An information management apparatus, for registering data of multimedia titles in a client/server system and supplying the data to users of client terminals, stores title management information for each registered title, including title identification and title storage location information, together with key word information which can be directly utilized to implement search techniques based on HTML files, relational database, etc. The apparatus enables client terminals having respectively different operating systems to specify storage location information for respective hypermedia titles created using the terminals, with problems of incompatibility of forms of storage location syntax between the various client terminals being overcome, enabling any client terminal to be used in accessing data of any registered title.