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Volume 10, Issue 3
1 March 1993
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Review Article| March 01 1993

Access to Global Contacts: Online Community Information Services Available to Purchase

Gord Nickerson
Gord Nickerson
Research coordinator at the University of Western Ontario
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2054-5576
Print ISSN: 1065-0741
© MCB UP Limited
1993
Campus-Wide Information Systems (1993) 10 (3): 21–24.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb027534

Examines developments in online community information services,especially now that many homes have computers with modems and many people are familiar with the concept and use of telecommunications. Emphasizes the low cost of online systems in providing information to the public and to schools. Discusses the Cleveland Free Net, an online system providing community information in the areas of law, medicine,education, arts, sciences, and local government. Finally, details the National Telecomputing network mission statement and goals.

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Computer networks, Information services, Information technology, Online retrieval, Schools, Telecommunications
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