Chronicles of an information company

Patricia Ferguson

The Journal of Technology Transfer, 1977, vol. 1, issue 2, 45-51

Abstract: 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

Keywords: Information brokers; Data bases; Pricing policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1977
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DOI: 10.1007/BF02622188

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