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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 Thomas H. Martin, Dick Guertin and Bill Kiefer. John Schroeder was the manager of the SPIRES project during this early phase of
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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In 2004, SPIRES was migrated off the mainframe onto Unix platforms by means of a System/360 emulator developed by Dick Guertin. The DBMS now runs on [[Unix]], [[Linux]] or [[macOS]] and is available under [[Mozilla Public License]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/spires/uspires/ |title=Stanford Unix-SPIRES |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701182838/https://web.stanford.edu/group/spires/uspires/ |archive-date=2015-07-01 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
== SPIRES High Energy Physics database (SPIRES-HEP) ==
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