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Using ISDN for document delivery

Program: electronic library and information systems

ISSN: 0033-0337

Article publication date: 1 April 1988

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Abstract

As part of Quartet, a research project funded by the British Library, University College London (UCL) has been investigating the use of digital telephone networks for document delivery. The system will facilitate the transmission of electronically encoded documents, such as scientific journal articles, usually in facsimile image format, from a central archive to a requesting client, and the intention is to investigate the technical and economic viability of basing such a system on ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network). Present experiments involve the use of Group IV Telefax across IDA, British Telecom's prototype ISDN network, and Megastream links between UCL and the British Library's Document Supply Centre at Boston Spa (near York). This paper is based on a talk given to the UK Online Users Group at Aslib, London, in November 1987.

Citation

Tuck, B. (1988), "Using ISDN for document delivery", Program: electronic library and information systems, Vol. 22 No. 4, pp. 355-363. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb047008

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MCB UP Ltd

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