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Hawkins, Donald T. – Online, 1989
Reviews some of the models used for pricing online information services and discusses some of the implications of these pricing algorithms. Topics discussed include online versus print pricing; charges for the retrieval process; charges for the retrieved information; telecommunications charges; and the pricing policies of Chemical Abstracts…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cost Estimates, Database Producers, Databases