2014-№2(43) Article 1

T.V. Eremenko

Databases as information resources of the US higher education system: history of development (the 1960s–1990s). P. 7-14.

UDC 378.4

The paper treats the stages of formation and development of databases actively used as information resources in the US higher educational institutions. The paper characterizes the major achievements and tendencies of each stage. It traces the evolution of databases from the first computerized bases of annotated references of professional literature till full text databases and abstract databases. It analyzes the role largest American companies and corporations played in the formation of databases. It characterizes the policy of accessing databases accepted in the US higher educational institutions.  

Information resources, databases, higher education, the USA, history, libraries of higher educational institutions, optical compact disks, online access, vendor companies.

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