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Chronicles of an information company

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The birth and growth of a US West Coast information company is chronicled from its beginning as a part-time partnership to its status five years later as a small but profitable corporation providing information services to Government agencies as well as graduate students. Documentation Associates provides a search and retrieval service that includes brokering on-line data-base searches, and the investment required to set up and maintain this kind of operation is described. Some information-broker policies are discussed, e.g. service types, pricing methods, and the reasons for the wide disparity in data-base search prices are examined. The policies of Documentation Associates in the operation of its broker service are presented. Copyright the Technology Transfer Society 1977

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  • Patricia Ferguson, 1977. "Chronicles of an information company," The Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer, vol. 1(2), pages 45-51, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jtecht:v:1:y:1977:i:2:p:45-51
    DOI: 10.1007/BF02622188
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