The COBE Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment Search for the Cosmic   Infrared Background: IV. Cosmological Implications
  In this paper we examine the cosmological constraints of the recent DIRBE and FIRAS detection of the extragalactic background light between 125-5000 microns on the metal and star formation histories of the universe. 
E. Dwek, R. G. Arendt, M. G. Hauser, D. Fixsen, T. Kelsall, D.   Leisawitz, Y. C. Pei, E. L. Wright, J. C. Mather, S. H. Mos...