Document (#6563)

Author: Addyman, A.M.
Title: WAIS: strengths, weaknesses and opportunities : the Global Youth Communications Network
Source: Information networking 93: using the network. Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Information Networking, London, May 1993
Imprint: London : Meckler
Year: 1993
Pages: S.138-144
Abstract: Briefly discusses recent developments in the Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) software available for searching over the Internet telecommunications network. Of particular interest are the practical examples of searches of external databases
Theme: Internet
Object: WAIS

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