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==History==
SPIRES was originally developed at the [[Stanford Linear Accelerator Center]] (SLAC) in 1969, from a design based on a 1967 information study of physicists at SLAC. The system was designed as a [[physics]] [[database management system]] (DBMS) to deal with high-energy-physics preprints.<ref>
In the early 1970s, an evaluation of this system resulted in the decision to implement a new system for use by faculty, staff and students at [[Stanford University]]. SPIRES was renamed the '''Stanford Public Information Retrieval System'''. The new development took place under a National Science Foundation grant headed by Edwin B. Parker, principal investigator. SPIRES joined forces with the BALLOTS project to create a bibliographic citation retrieval system and quickly evolved into a generalized information retrieval and data base management system that could meet the needs of a large and diverse computing community.
SPIRES was rewritten in [[PL360]], a block structured programming language designed explicitly for System/360-compatible hardware. The primary authors were
Eventually, BALLOTS split off from SPIRES and the [[Research Libraries Group]] adopted SPIRES as its data base engine while providing a graphical interface to its clients. ''Socrates'' was a library circulation management system rooted in SPIRES.
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SPIRES became the primary database management system for Stanford University business and student services in the 1980s and 1990s. It was also adopted by about two dozen other universities, including installations using the [[Michigan Terminal System]] (MTS), and [[VM/CMS]]. These universities collaborated through annual meetings of the SPIRES Consortium.
In 2004, SPIRES was migrated off the mainframe onto Unix platforms by means of an System/360 emulator developed by Dick Guertin. The DBMS now runs on [[Unix]], [[Linux]] or [[
== SPIRES High Energy Physics database (SPIRES-HEP) ==
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