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Neufeld, M. Lynne; Cornog, Martha – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986
Summarizes the growth of databases, including major milestones, issues, and trends of the past 20 years, during which time the database/online industry had become a large and thriving segment of the information industry. A time line overview of database developments from 1951 to 1985 is appended. (42 references) (EJS)
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