N eWwS Comtex Scientific Corporation...

 

 

850 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 (212) 838-7200

New York, New York, March 7, 1984

Comtex Scientific, an electronic news and informa-
tion publisher, announces the formation of a new division,
Scientific DataLink (SDL). "The objective of SDL," according
to Comtex President and CEO, Graeme Keeping, "is to acquire
and publish state-of-the-art high technology research docu-

ments."

SDL is a technology transfer program in computer
intensive technologies giving scientists, engineers, research
laboratories, and libraries convenient, single-source access
to fundamental research results, both theoretical and applied,

from leading universities and R&D facilities.

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Many thousands of pages from MIT, Stanford, Purdue,
and SRI International documenting Artificial Intelligence
research have already been published by SDL. Additional AI
collections are expected in the first half of 1984 from Yale;
Carnegie-Mellon; Rutgers: Bolt, Beranek and Newman: Maryland;

and Edinburgh.

These pages, heretofore unavailable as comprehen-
sive collections, and others to be published in computer
science, robotics, and related disciplines are converted to

microfiche, coded, indexed and entered onto a database by

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the SDL editorial staff. Each collection is accompanied by
a comprehensive catalogue with abstract, author, title, and

subject indices to enhance convenient use.

Domestic and international marketing of the col-
lections to academic libraries as well as to industry and
government, including the military, will be undertaken
by Information Handling Services, a division of Thyssen-

Bornemisza, Inc., and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

SDL's parent company, Comtex Scientific Corpora-
tion, is actively developing a computerized electronic
publishing service for both scientific data and general news
and information. United Press International (UPI) has
recently taken a 45% position in the company in exchange for
assignment of its electronic database contracts which include
services to Lockheed's Dialog, Dow Jones Information Retrieval
Services, ITT Dialcom, Mead Data General's NEXIS, NewsNet and

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Reader's Digests' The Source.

Keeping further pointed out that Comtex would also
make available in the near future a proprietary service
called NewsGrid which would contain material from the UPI
database. "NewsGrid is specifically designed for use by
Videotex system operators and others who need a streamlined,
financial, business and general news and sports overlay to

their present electronic delivery services."

For further information contact Herbert Nagourney

at 212-838-7200.