Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 14 Issue 2
Table of contents
Networking future
Constantine M. SolomonidesThe installation of data networks which is now happening world wide, will make it possible to connect to a large number of computer systems from a single terminal. Before anything…
The new data networks—now and in the near future
Peter RiggThe world of data networks is developing quickly. This article reviews the reasons for the new public services, and indicates some of the differences between them. The effect on…
EURONET DIANE — the European on‐line information network
Barry MahonThe historical and policy development of the project of the Commission of the European Communities to develop an information network for the nine Member States of the European…
The Prestel system and information retrieval
Bryan DewThis article aims at explaining how viewdata systems work, with a particular emphasis on Prestel. Reference is made to the types of information available from both viewdata and…
Networking as viewed by an on‐line service
Peter Nichols, Jeremy SergeantThis paper describes the development of an on‐line bibliographic retrieval service, InfoLine, during a period of rapid growth of availability of data transmission networks…