A history of online information services, 1963-1976
By: Charles P. Bourne and Truci Bellardo Hahn.
Contributors: Hahn, Trudi Bellardo.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 493
Subjects: Information storage and retrieval systems -- History.; Information retrieval -- History.; Online bibliographic searching -- History.; Online information services -- History.; Online information services industry -- History.; Information scientists -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-467) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction 1; title: 2 Early Research and Development Activities 11; title: 3 Further Experimentation and Prototypes in Universities, Mid-1960s to Early 1970s 61; title: 4 Experimental Systems Developed in Nonacademic Laboratories, Mid-1960s to Early 1970s 101; title: 5 Lockheed DIALOG and Related Systems, 1961-1972 141; title: 6 SDC ORBIT and Related Systems, 1963-1972 185; title: 7 Computer Searching for the Legal Profession: Data Corporation, OBAR, Mead Data Central, 1964-1972 229; title: 8 State University of New York Biomedical Communication Network, 1965-1976 259; title: 9 The Online Industry: The Public View 279; title: 10 Building the Online Industry: Behind the Scenes 353; title: 11 Summing Up the Story 405; title: Notes 411; title: Summary of Online Milestones 415; title: Bibliography 419; title: Index 469.