Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 14 Issue 2

Networking future

Constantine M. Solomonides

The 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 Rigg

The 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 Mahon

The 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 Dew

This 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 Sergeant

This paper describes the development of an on‐line bibliographic retrieval service, InfoLine, during a period of rapid growth of availability of data transmission networks…