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| Information Services and Use | 7 |
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| Aitchison, T. M. | 1 |
| Basch, Reva | 1 |
| Greenslade, Chris | 1 |
| Landau, Herbert B. | 1 |
| Lowry, Glenn R. | 1 |
| MacColl, John A. | 1 |
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| Journal Articles | 7 |
| Speeches/Meeting Papers | 4 |
| Opinion Papers | 3 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 3 |
| Collected Works - Proceedings | 1 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
| Reports - General | 1 |
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Peer reviewedGreenslade, Chris – Information Services and Use, 1992
Describes standards for computer-based information systems, including Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) and open distributed processing. The standardization process is explained, and the Open Software Foundation's Distributed Computing Environment is described as a de facto standard for open distributed processing that has already gained…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Online Systems, Online Vendors, Standards
Peer reviewedLandau, Herbert B. – Information Services and Use, 1987
Describes two types of online vendor gateways--front-end buffers and host-to-host links. The potential threats and opportunities of gateways to database owners, online vendors, and users are identified, and a code of practice developed by the National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services is presented. (CLB)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Database Producers, Online Systems, Online Vendors
Peer reviewedAitchison, T. M.; And Others – Information Services and Use, 1988
Current issues and the future of the database business are discussed in five papers. Topics covered include aspects relating to the quality of database production; international ownership in the U.S. information marketplace; an overview of pricing strategies in the electronic information industry; and pricing issues from the viewpoints of online…
Descriptors: Database Design, Database Producers, International Trade, Mergers
Peer reviewedInformation Services and Use, 1987
Summarizes presentations on profitability in the information industry from the viewpoints of producers, who have to have a reason to be in business, and users, whose businesses are often driven by the information they can access and the price of that information. (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Competition, Cost Effectiveness, Database Producers, Information Centers
Peer reviewedBasch, Reva – Information Services and Use, 1985
Describes Information on Demand, an information broker that provides database and manual research on a fee for service basis, and accesses more than a dozen online systems. Relative strengths and weaknesses of particular systems and the criteria used to select databases and online vendors are identified and discussed. (CLB)
Descriptors: Abstracts, Cost Effectiveness, Databases, Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewedMacColl, John A. – Information Services and Use, 1990
Describes Project Jupiter, which was developed to promote the United Kingdom's Joint Academic Network (JANET) to its member libraries. Library uses of JANET are described, including online catalogs, commercial services, and electronic mail; the convergence of local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs) is discussed; and future…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Computer Networks, Electronic Mail
Peer reviewedLowry, Glenn R.; And Others – Information Services and Use, 1989
The 10 papers in this collection discuss the database industry in Australia and New Zealand, networking activities in the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) region, intellectual property protection of databases, the development of land information systems in Australia, the development of expert systems, the use of optical data disks,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Database Producers, Expert Systems, Foreign Countries
