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Peer reviewedDetemple, Wendelin – Online Review, 1989
Discusses expected future developments in full text databases (FTDs) in three main areas: host-based menu-driven systems; menu and front end interfaces on gateway and mailbox services; and microcomputer or front end computer-based systems which already have good retrieval interactions and input output processing features. (24 references)…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Expert Systems, Full Text Databases, Futures (of Society)
Peer reviewedMelton, Emily – Electronic Library, 1986
This discussion of Alanet, a comprehensive information system for professional librarians, covers its development; program features; advantages; uniqueness as a complete and integrated electronic information system for library professionals; system applications; benefits; costs; future developments; and user education. (MBR)
Descriptors: Costs, Decision Making, Electronic Mail, Futures (of Society)
Peer reviewedBondarook, Nina – Interpersonal Computing and Technology, 1995
Describes the strategies used to develop the "Seattle Times Extra," an online bulletin board service, and outlines some of the challenges that the introduction of this two-way computerized medium brought to the company and the newspaper. Discussion includes issues of competition, content development, technical support, finances, marketing, union…
Descriptors: Competition, Computer Mediated Communication, Dial Access Information Systems, Electronic Mail
