Bourne, Charles P.

A history of online information services, 1963-1976 / Charles P. Bourne and Truci Bellardo Hahn. - xvi, 493 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.



Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction 1 -- 2 Early Research and Development Activities 11 -- 3 Further Experimentation and Prototypes in Universities, Mid-1960s to Early 1970s 61 -- 4 Experimental Systems Developed in Nonacademic Laboratories, Mid-1960s to Early 1970s 101 -- 5 Lockheed DIALOG and Related Systems, 1961-1972 141 -- 6 SDC ORBIT and Related Systems, 1963-1972 185 -- 7 Computer Searching for the Legal Profession: Data Corporation, OBAR, Mead Data Central, 1964-1972 229 -- 8 State University of New York Biomedical Communication Network, 1965-1976 259 -- 9 The Online Industry: The Public View 279 -- 10 Building the Online Industry: Behind the Scenes 353 -- 11 Summing Up the Story 405 --Notes 411 -- Summary of Online Milestones 415 -- Bibliography 419 -- Index 469.

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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

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