Docster: The Future of Document Delivery?.

Chudnov, Daniel

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ERIC Number: EJ620146

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 2000

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Docster: The Future of Document Delivery?

Chudnov, Daniel

Library Journal, v125 n13 p60-62 Aug 2000

Considers the possibility of a bibliographic management tool that combines file storage with a Napster-like communications protocol, called docster. Explains Napster and discusses copyright issues, interlibrary loans, infrastructure, security concerns, the library's role, and online publishing. (LRW)

Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Copyrights, Document Delivery, Electronic Journals, Electronic Publishing, Futures (of Society), Information Storage, Interlibrary Loans, Library Role

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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