TY - JOUR AB - The purpose of this paper is to examine the reasons why CD‐ROM technology has made such a widespread impact on libraries in the science, technology and medicine (STM) sectors, and whether, now and in the future, there are sensible alternative strategies which our profession should consider adopting. It will concentrate mostly on large, core bibliographic databases both because this area of the market represents the great volume of sales by value — and because it is the area I know best. VL - 44 IS - 6 SN - 0001-253X DO - 10.1108/eb051278 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb051278 AU - McSeán Tony PY - 1992 Y1 - 1992/01/01 TI - CD‐ROMs and beyond: buying databases sensibly? T2 - Aslib Proceedings PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 243 EP - 244 Y2 - 2024/04/19 ER -