A Data-Base Producer's View of Online Vendor Gateways: A Threat or an Opportunity?.

Landau, Herbert B.

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Publication Date: 1987

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A Data-Base Producer's View of Online Vendor Gateways: A Threat or an Opportunity?

Landau, Herbert B.

Information Services and Use, v7 n4-5 p163-65 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, Policy Formation, User Needs (Information)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General; Speeches/Meeting Papers

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