| Abstrakt: |
This article discusses resource sharing and networking in the FUNET network. FUNET, the Finnish University and Research Network, based at the Center for Scientific Computing (CSC) of Finland and reporting directly to the Ministry of Education, has the responsibility for maintaining and developing the physical network and the services within the net. The FUNET services include electronic mail, transmittal of both mass data, such as measurement results, and images, e.g. pictures or animation. FUNET also provides access to the catalogs of the Finnish academic libraries, and connects the academic institutions and their administration with the Ministry of Education and its database. The founding of LINDA, the central catalog database of all Finnish university libraries, accessed via FUNET, which promotes the use of the network for resource sharing in libraries, is reviewed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
