
Communications
On-line databases and bulletin boards
There are a large number of on-line systems that can be accessed
over the telephone Une using a personal computer. The biggest are
in the US, but there are
a
number of important ones in the UK also.
An on-line system may provide
database,
bulletin
board,
and
email
(Le.
electronic mail) facilities, sometimes just one or two of these,
often all three. It may also provide a 'gateway' - Le. a
communications link - to other on-line databases, which you can
access from it.
An on-line database mainly stores libraries of economic,
financial, and statistical data, together with up-to-the-minute new ...