Computer technology in data-base publishing
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Abstract
The experience and the expectations of a large scientific society publisher of chemical and chemical engineering information tools provide a broad context for considering the history and probable future impact of computer technology on information dissemination. Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) was in good health for half a century before computer technology was available in practical application to the production of information services. It is now in satisfactory technical and economic health largely because computer technology is available.
Early applications of computers to practical word and chemical structure manipulation were for the most part probes to determine how, or even if, the machines could be useful. Today the computer is the heart of the CAS production system in the same sense as the reactors are the heart of a chemical plant. Regardless of the forms or media of the output, the computer is essential to their production.
The future sees computers as the means by which all scientific and technical information dissemination activities can be helped to coordinate their functions and improve their services to information users.
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[1]
Farmer, Nick A., Carole A. Schermer and Roland L. Wigington, "The American Chemical Society Composition System", CAS Report, 5, 3, 1976.
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Luhn, Hans Peter, "Keyword-in-Context Index for Technical Literature (KWIC) Index)", American Documentation, XI, 4, 1960, p. 288.
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CAS Staff, "CAS to Study Registry of Chemical Compounds", Chemical & Engineering News, June 7, 1965, p. 23.
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Bammel, S. E., "Automatic Full-Page Formatting of Technical Primary Journals", Proceedings of the National Computer Conference, Anaheim, California, 1975.
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Rhodes, S. N. and H. L. Bamford, "Editorial Processing Centers: A Progress Report", The American Sociologist, 11, 3, 1976, pp. 153--9.
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Editorial Processing Centers, Feasibility and Promise, Aspen Systems Corporation, Rockville, Maryland, 1975, 70 pp.
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Tate, F. A. and R. E. O'Dette, Interlinking of Primary Publications and Secondary Information Services, XXIVth International Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry, 7, 15, 1974.
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June 1977
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ISBN:9781450379144
DOI:10.1145/1499402
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Published: 13 June 1977
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