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This paper is based mainly on the experience of managing an Information Center in an R&D institution providing information services to industrial firms in Portugal Generally speaking, in industrial organizations there are always two categories of information to be handled:
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• Internally generated information
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• Externally generated information
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Correia, A.M.R. (1987). Failure Analysis of Information Systems in Small Manufacturing Enterprises: The Importance of the Human Interface. In: Wise, J.A., Debons, A. (eds) Information Systems: Failure Analysis. NATO ASI Series, vol 32. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83091-4_30
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