Open AccessPublist - a bibliographic database utility
Author(s) -
R. F. Peierls
Publication year - 1997
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/426973
Subject(s) - unix , computer science , variety (cybernetics) , database , information system , information retrieval , track (disk drive) , world wide web , software , programming language , operating system , artificial intelligence , engineering , electrical engineering
A few years ago, the Department of Applied Science perceived a need to automate activities related to publications by using some computer based system. Among the objectives were that: (1) it should be easy for a secretary or someone without extensive computer skills to use the system; (2) it should run on PCs (at that time DOS based), Macintosh, and Unix systems, so that different groups or individual investigators could use it on their platform of choice; (3) it should be flexible enough to track evolving views of what information was needed; (4) it should be able to generate output in different formats for different purposes; (5) the information should be able to be selected from and sorted by a wide variety of keys; and (6) individual items should be able to be updated with new information or deleted. This document gives an over view of the PUBLIST database for handling bibliographic data