The origins of LEXIS were a project at Ohio State legislature in
the early 1960s to digitize the statue law, the particular issue
being to identify - and replace - references to 'bastard' and related
expressions.
LEXIS, then owned by Data Corp, and subsequently Mead Data and
then Reid Elsevier went on-line (tone modems!) in 1973, is said today
to be second only to the WWW in the quantity of material it holds.
Bruce Grant
On 10 May 99 at 15:34, Huddart, Dave wrote:
> >Does anyone know what database was the first one
> >(bibliographic or other)? The first one we could search in batch
> >before online? NASA was early, and I think CAS and NLM had electronic
> >databases before 1970, but I should like to know the first one.
> >Somebody here said METADEX, but I don't think that is correct. And
> >what are the names of the first ones we could search online?
>
> According to Maizell: "How to find chemical information", Chem Abs
> offered batch-search service based on Chemical Titles in 1965
> (though there had been experiments 1962-63)
>
> The first in Europe was at Nottingham [UKCIS] in 1967.
>
> The first online Chem Abs service wasn't until 1973: SDC [later
> Orbit], Informatics Inc and SIA.
>
>
> Thus I believe MEDLARS was earlier online as these tapes were
> searchable online via systems such as the SUNY Biomedical
> Communication Network in the North Eastern US. - This is taken from
> Bottle and Wyatt: "The use of the biological Literature". 1971.
> [Teasingly it says "(and other databases)" without saying what they
> were!]
>
> I always believed that MEDLARS was the earlier batch system as well.
>
> I haven't found anything about NASA or Netadex.
>
>
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> Huddart
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