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Means, Susan. 1985. EPALIT: A Data Management System Applied to the Control and Retrieval of Technical Reports. In: Year of the Oceans: Science of Information Handling. EPA/600/D-85/085. R.L. Grundy and R.T. Ford, Editors. Biography Press, Aransas Pass, TX. Pp. 59-83. (ERL,GB 534). (Avail. from NTIS, Springfield, VA: PB85-193068)

The EPALIT data management sysem is used by the Environmental Research Laboratory, Gulf Breeze, Florida, to preserve and manipulate information in text databases. EPALIT provides the logical resources for data organization, analysis, and retrieval. It is completely interactive and permits natural language searching with full or truncated terms, imbedded word fragments, and boolean search strings. The library has applied this system to the control and dissemination of its information resources. The Contributions Database, consisting of the laboratory's in-house and extramural publications, is the most sophisticated application to date. EPALIT's features are described in the context of this Contributions Database and its various report formats illustrated.

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