 It was the search engine that in 1977 powered Bibliographic Retrieval Services (BRS) commercial operations with 20 databases (including the first national commercial availability of MEDLINE); it has changed ownership several times during its development and is currently sold as Livelink ECM Discovery Server by Open Text Corporation.Development on what was to become BRS began as Biomedical Communications Network (BCN) at the State University of New York, Albany (SUNY).BCN, which went online in 1968, provided on-line access to nine databases, including MEDLINE and BIOSIS PREVIEWS, to large universities and medical schools primarily in the Northeast of the USA.