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In article <1e4e8vINNaee@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> takefuji@donald.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (Yos
hiyasu Takefuji) writes:
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>From: ruck@zeta.ee.ufl.edu (John R Ruckstuhl Jr)
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>In an article in comp.sys.sun.apps, pete@egh-qc.uucp writes:
>> we are looking for an OCR system to scan in references from journals
>> for our laboratory reference filing system.
>I have long thought that a database of cross-references would be very
>valuable.  
>I'd like to see, first, someone doing just what you propose -- scan
>references and maintain a database of backward- AND forward-
>references, as a proof-of-concept project.

   This sounds like the service you get with citation indexes,
   like the Social Science & Humanities Citation Index, and the
   Science Citation Index. 

   They list say, everybody who quotes Freud....
   Suspect these dbs are already out in CD-ROM. There are big bucks
   in this stuff.

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