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Volume 1, Issue 2
1 February 1977
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Review Article| February 01 1977

Scientific and technical data bases in a multilingual society

Ariane Iljon
Ariane Iljon
The author is with the Directorate General Scientific & Technical Information & Information Management, Commission of the European Communities, Bàtiment Jean Monnet, Kirchberg, Luxembourg.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2396-9091
Print ISSN: 0309-314X
© MCB UP Limited
1977
Online Review (1977) 1 (2): 133–136.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb023943

The present situation concerning the use of different languages in data bases is outlined. It is somewhat analogous to that in the field of publishing, as English is the predominant carrier language used. Nevertheless, a number of monolingual data bases offer multilingual features, and there exist a few multi‐lingual data bases. This is already an indication that new tendencies are at work.

Keywords: Data bases, Multilingualism, Language user
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