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Landau, Herbert B. – Information Services and Use, 1987
Describes two types of online vendor gateways--front-end buffers and host-to-host links. The potential threats and opportunities of gateways to database owners, online vendors, and users are identified, and a code of practice developed by the National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services is presented. (CLB)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Database Producers, Online Systems, Online Vendors