MOGADOC (Molecular Gas Phase Documentation) — An interactive computerised search/retrieval system

For 22 years the Section for Structure Documentation (SSD), University of Ulm, has provided a documentation service covering the literature of molecules studied in the gas phase by electron diffraction, microwave spectroscopy and other techniques. Much of the information which has been accumulated over these years has now been keyboarded to constitute a computerised database. An interactive search/retrieval system, MOGADOC, has been written using the SIMULA¹ language implemented on the UNIVAC 1100/82 computer at the University of Freiburg. MOGADOC enables the user to search the database on the basis of bibliographic, chemical and physical search terms.