The true pioneers in electronic publishing put their bibliographic databases on tape and online in the 1960s. Nearly all of them had long experience with compiling information for distribution in printed form and a strong market connection. As a result of Soviet advances in science and space technology, American government support for information science and academic libraries flowed freely for a little over a decade, making possible tremendous advances in technology, in retrieval techniques and in sophisticated coverage. Advances in information technology and market conditions have encouraged many more participants to underwrite the development of databases that now extend into the arts, social sciences, business, and popular interests. These essays show how production statistics accompanied by statements of editorial coverage provide a fairly accurate reflection of output of many of the major disciplinary bibliographic databases. The urgent priority of information resources in the 1960s has encouraged comprehensive servicing of the formal research literature as published in journals and monographs. Authors have counted subject words, languages, origins, types of publication, and so on over several decades. This volume also includes articles on some databases that are not strictly bibliographic, such as the CMG database of college courses, which illuminates some of the changes in college textbook publishing. Information seekers will find the many tables of practical use, as guidance to what and how much may be found within each database. Analysts of publishing, of science policy, and of higher education will find information relevant to expenditures, human resources, and other indicators of education, research, and technology activity.
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1: Database Publishing Statistics; 2: Secondary Information Services- Mirrors of Scholarly Communication: Forces and Trends; 3: Resources for Research and Learning: The Databases of the Research Libraries Group; 4: The OCLC Online Union Catalog: An Incomparable Library Resource; 5: EMBASE-The Excerpta Medica Database: Quick and Comprehensive Drug Information; 6: Growth and Change in the World's Biological Literature as Reflected in BIOSIS Publications; 7: Secondary Publishing in Changing Times: Profile of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts; 8: Documenting the World's Sociological Literature: Sociological Abstracts; 9: Evolution and Revolution at PAIS: Technology and Concepts; 10: The History and Scope of the American Economic Association's EconLit and the Economic Literature Index; 11: INFO-SOUTH: Leading the Way on the Information Superhighway to Latin America and the Caribbean; 12: AgeLine Database on Middle Age and Aging: Reflecting Population Diversity; 13: Statistics of Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life Databases; 14: Statistics of RILM: Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale; 15: Trends in Courses Taught: Insights from CMG's College Faculty Database; 16: Statistical Analysis of the TULSA Database, 1965-1994; 17: A Brief History of the Abstract Bulletin of the Institute of Paper Science and Technology; 18: Growth of the Computing Literature as Reflected in the Computing Information Directory, 1981-1995; 19: Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Program; 20: The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) Bibliographic Database; 21: Calculators and Crystal Balls: Predicting Journal Subscription Prices; 22: Monitoring the Health of North America's Small and Mid-Sized Book Publishers Since 1980; 23: National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services Member Data Services; 24: Growth and Change of the World's Chemical Literature as Reflected in Chemical Abstracts; 25: A Brief History of the Mathematical Literature; 26: From Published Paper to MR Review: How Does It Happen?; 27: The PASCAL and FRANCIS Databases of the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (France): Presentation and Statistics; 28: Information Access Company: The Evolution of InfoTrac Multi-Source Databases and Their Importance to Library End-Users; Contributors
