Abstract
Since 1970, the Israeli National Center of Scientific and Technological Information (COSTI) has provided a com puterized SDI service to academic, research, industrial and governmental users in Israel. The system's uniqueness is that it is run on a minicomputer (a PDP 11/70).
Six databases are offered as of March 1981: Chemical Abstracts Search, COMPENDEX, INSPEC, Science Citation Index Search, AGRIS and U.S. Government Reports An nouncements. Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS) will be added soon. Current editions of the database tapes are run against personal profiles in order to retrieve items of interest to individual clients.
This paper surveys the process of executing SDI at COSTI, focusing on search-profile construction and update techniques and on the SDI production process.
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