A portion of the price of each unit goes to Morris Animal Foundation for colic research. Modular Medical Library. CD ROM technology is being put to good use as a medium for distributing quarterly updates of standard medical reference materials to doctors. The CD will contain 20 locked volumes that can be opened by calling in a credit card number to obtain a password. Stat-Ref 3.0 will be able to rank search results by relevance based on frequency and proximity of search terms and will have hyperlinks to jump between references.
Price depends on the number of volumes unlocked.
He was addressing the increasing difficulties that university libraries are having in maintaining subscriptions to scholarly journals in the face of rising subscription fees and reduced budgets. They then give them away to publishers, who sell the information back to the universities at prices the universities can't afford. By guaranteeing a market commercial CD ROM publishers would compete for the chance to do the job. They'd also sell additional copies of the CD ROM to subscribers for a nominal fee. Personal Computers Will Make Solitude a Scarce Resource.