TY - BOOK AU - Dubois, J. E. AU - Gershon, Nahum TI - The information revolution: impact on science and technology SN - 3540608559 AV - Z 699.5.S3 I53 1996 PY - 1996/// CY - New York, Paris PB - Springer-Verlag, CODATA KW - INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS KW - SCIENCE KW - TECHNOLOGY KW - INFORMATION NETWORKS KW - INTERNET KW - WORLD WIDE WEB N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Emergence of an information society : Facts and challenges -- information highways : Internet and Web services -- Obstacles to a free or fair circulation of scientific data -- distributed data and information networks -- Worldwide and regional information systems, policies and programs -- UNESCO policy, worldwide networks, regional exchange equity -- numerical, textual and image databases -- case study : worldwide bioinformatics distributed databases ER -