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The Index to South African Periodicals (ISAP) on the South African Studies (SAS) CD-ROM as an example of database publishing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Antoinette Kotze
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Database publishing is an important element in the flow of information.

With its introduction in 1972 (Gurnsey, 1985), online database publishing offered a technical solution to the problem of keeping up with the massive increase in literature, and of providing online access and retrieval of information for a mainly technical user market. In most developed countries, online database publishing now forms a fundamental part of the information infrastructure. Unfortunately, the lack of such infrastructure in developing countries is increasing the gap in information flow between the information rich and information poor.

Today CD-ROM, with its potential for high density storage, user friendly interface and versatile application, is regarded as an appropriate solution for database publishing in support of cost-effective online access, and also for facilitating wider exposure to databases to reach an extended user market.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 72 , 1996 , pp. 9 - 15
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Copyright © African Research & Documentation 1996

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Antoinette Kotze can be reached at ISAP/RSAT, State Library, P.O. Box 397, Pretoria 0001, South Africa Fax: (012) 325-984 E-mail: askotze@statelib.pwv.gov .zaGoogle Scholar