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ERIC Number: EJ515116
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0264-0473
Publishing Your Database on CD-ROM for Profit: The FISHLIT and NISC Experience.
Crampton, Margaret
Electronic Library, v13 n5 p453-57 Oct 1995
Details the development of the FISHLIT bibliographic database at the JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology Library at Rhodes University (South Africa), and the subsequent CD-ROM publication of the database by NISC (National Information Services Corporation). Discusses the advantages of CD-ROM publication, costs and information service provision, benefits of NISC search software, and marketing by NISC. (JKP)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Costs, Electronic Publishing, Fisheries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Ichthyology, Information Industry, Information Retrieval, Marketing, Online Searching, Optical Data Disks
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
Education Level: N/A
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Historical Background; Profit Making; Rhodes University (South Africa)