POLYDOC/COINDOC: A System for Internal Storage, Retrieval, and Dissemination of Information; COINDOC: What Can it do for You and How does it Work? (Supplementary Paper)

Costly time is wasted in inefficient pursuit of information which is known to exist or that one hopes to find. COINDOC is a tool in the process of indexing storing, retrieving and distributing information from documents, and it can help solve internal information problems. POLYDOC/COINDOC is a system developed by Norwegian Centre for Informaties, NSI, as a pack of modul ar EDP programs ready for use on your own computer or on a service basis at NSI, Oslo.

The system is used for books, journals, reports, brochures, drawings, patents, photographs and person information, market information, product specifications etc. - in short all printed or written know-how for practical use.

The POLYDOC/COINDOC system is programmed in COBOL and is operative on UNIVAC 1108, IBM 370/155, IBM 360/30, or ICL 1904A computers and can be adapted to almost any EDP system with a COBOL compiler. The COINDOC software can be bought for a fixed price of N.kr. 35.000,- and an annual maintenance fee of N.kr. 7.000,-.

A number of companies are co-operating in solving common problems in the application of the COINDOC system, and experience is exchanged between the licensees, both on documentation problems and in the EDP technical area. Any new licensee can take part in this development and make use of the exchange facility secured in a standard POLYDOC contract.