Study and Recommendation of Available Sources of Scientific and Technical Numeric Databases in the Government and Private Sector
Abstract
The Defense Technical Information Center's (DTIC) mission for the scientific and technical numeric database project is to provide DoD scientists and engineers, the end users, with access to scientific and technical information and data. Until now, DTIC has been providing its users, who are primarily librarians and technical information specialists, access to bibliographic database or pointers to possible resources of numeric data for end users. In an effort to be more responsive to the DoD community, DTIC has been investigating new services to provide resources directly to the end users. One of these resources is scientific and technical databases. This report focuses on the methodology used to identify and recommend scientific and technical databases that should be accessed or distributed through DTIC. The methodology described is broken into three tasks: (1) Determine which databases from DTIC SCITECH Directory meet specified criteria as to users' needs and investigate them further to determine if the data source is a candidate to make available through DTIC. (2) Contact data source distributors to elicit information and provide a comparative view of the selected databases. (3) Recommend which of the selected databases could be made available through DTIC based on the comparison of the selected databases.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 03, 1992
- Accession Number
- ADA247266
Entities
People
- Donna E. Grimes
Organizations
- IIT Research Institute