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Electronic paths to resource sharing: Widening opportunities through the Internet

Mary E. Engle (Senior analyst at the University of California, Division of Library Automation)

Reference Services Review

ISSN: 0090-7324

Article publication date: 1 April 1991

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Abstract

In the early 1980s, Luis Alvarez and his colleagues added a new dimension to Darwin's theory of evolution. With evidence from studies of the earth's crust between the cretacious and tertiary layers, they postulated that the traditional slow, gradual mutation of species over eons was also punctuated with occasional major changes, often catastrophic, that caused leaps in evolution in relatively short “moments” of history. The extinction of the dinosaurs and half the other animal species alive between the cretacious and tertiary periods of earth's history was one such momentous change, forever altering the evolution of animal species.

Citation

Engle, M.E. (1991), "Electronic paths to resource sharing: Widening opportunities through the Internet", Reference Services Review, Vol. 19 No. 4, pp. 7-62. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb049134

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MCB UP Ltd

Copyright © 1991, MCB UP Limited

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