Wertz R K
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The massive production of medical information is being met by new technologies for storing and retrieving knowledge. Recent years have witnessed the maturation of time-sharing information utilities into a full-blown industry. In medicine these services have provided bibliographic information but have recently expanded to full-text availability of journals and books. Now optical storage technology, most conspicuously the compact disk read only memory (CD-ROM), provides similar massive information storage and retrieval affordable to microcomputer users. Such devices might replace many of the functions of time-sharing.
大量的医学信息产出正通过用于存储和检索知识的新技术来满足。近年来见证了分时信息公用事业发展成为一个成熟的产业。在医学领域，这些服务提供了书目信息，但最近已扩展到期刊和书籍的全文获取。现在，光存储技术，最显著的是只读光盘（CD-ROM），为微型计算机用户提供了类似的海量信息存储和检索功能，且价格实惠。此类设备可能会取代分时系统的许多功能。
