Transdoc : a successful cooperation

The Transdoc programme for electronic document delivery, which had been selected in 1983 by the Commission of the European communities, from among the ten DOCDEL programmes, has come to an end in 1988. It included all the documentary functions existing in a general system of technical and scientific information, from document input in a transfer system (microfiche or optical disk) and identification in the databank host, to remote delivery (fax, satellite or network). Although the quantitative results are noticeable (yet to be improved), the qualitative contributions are more important and their effects can be found in several projects. The programme will also have clearly expressed the reproduction fees problem raised by the implementation of such systems.
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