Multiple use and other mysteries: creating the data base as a byproduct of composition*

Issue title: Special Issue containing papers from the Spring 1984 Meeting of the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers on “The Economics of Data-base Production” and containing selected summaries of presentations from the Ninth International CODATA Conference, 1984

Guest editors: A.W. Elias, C. van de Weteringh and T. Matsumura

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Foreman, Bruce M.

Affiliations: American Institute of Physics, 335 East 45th Street, New York, NY 10017, USA

Note: [*] Based on a presentation delivered at the Spring Meeting of the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC) in New Orleans on 19 March 1984.

Abstract: The position of the American Institute of Physics as both a primary journal publisher and a producer of a data base of secondary information creates opportunities for important savings through multiple use of originally input material. The system by which both primary journals and secondary products are produced in order to realize these savings is described in some detail.

DOI: 10.3233/ISU-1984-4504

Journal: Information Services & Use, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 305-312, 1984