ICT 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: American Psychological Association, Wolters Kluwer, Psycinfo
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Sector 51, in the u. s. economic census is for all of the information industries. Sector 51 includes movie production and distribution companies, music studios, broadcasting, telecommunications, libraries, and archives, and publishing of all varieties (p. 97) Database producers and vendors are within the information industry, and they make billions of records searchable in thousands of databases. Commercial: the library is charged an annual fee or they will charge your credit card if you search the database on a vendor"s website without going through a library. General onefile indexes around thirteen thousand titles," which includes magazines, newspapers, npr radio transcripts, broadcast news, and whole encyclopedias. All of those resources are issued by a wide variety of producers and publishers (p. 98) The gale, cengage learning company arranges with each one to include its publications and broadcasts in the general onefile database, and gale (for short) is the publisher of the database itself (p. 98)