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This month, my choices include a new Windows-based version of a one-year-old database, the niftiest Yellow Pages directory on the World Wide Web, another CD-ROM encyclopedia with poor content and [...]

The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) has prepared a series of new information products offered in 1996. All are planned as customized alerting services bringing very current information to your [...]

Watching movies is one of the most popular national pastimes. According to the CD-ROM database from Pierian Press, A Matter of Fact, there are 23,000 movie theater screens in the [...]

Over 110 new mathematics journals appeared on the scholarly scene between 1990 and 1994. New Journal titles in the chemical sciences were also being announced during this four-year period, one [...]

The Oxford English Dictionary defines an encyclopedia or encyclopaedia as first, 'The circle of learning; a general course of instruction,' and secondly, in more familiar terms, as 'a literary work [...]

A favorite library professor once said 'Name a trade--there's a journal for it.' I have since discovered several amusing variations on this theme, most notably 'Name a trade (profession, discipline, [...]

At last the accounting librarian's dream has come true. UMI/Data Courier, a division of UMI, introduced two new products in June 1992 at the 16th Annual Accounting Librarians Luncheon held [...]

Current Patents Fast Alert and Current Patents Evaluations from Current Drugs Ltd. (formerly Current Patents Ltd.) are two related databases that became available online last year. A printed version of [...]

It appears to me that there is a great deal of interest in ethics these days. Hardly a week goes by without some newsworthy item in the press or on [...]

The Extel Cards database made its online debut in America in 1990, after years of loyal Extel customers in the UK had been using the hardcopy information service of company [...]

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, the official source for financial information on publicly traded companies, are the major source of communication between a company's management and its shareholders. These [...]

PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY DATABASES: INSPEC AND PHYS COMPARED The existence of two major online databases for the fields of physics and astronomy has created confusion for librarians and researchers attempting [...]

U.S. COMPANY FINANCIAL DATABASES ON DIALOG When you hear the terms 'capitalization,' 'cash flow statement,' 'quick ratio,' or 'betas' do you: a) Panic b) Fall asleep c) Vaguely recollect seeing [...]

TRADSTAT -- DATA-STAR'S STELLAR IMPORT-EXPORT DATABASE September trade deficit of $7.94 billion is nearly a five year low as imports fall. Behind this headline in the Wall Street Journal are [...]

BRITISH DATABASES: A COMPARISON OF REUTER TEXTLINE AND PROFILE INFORMATION Nineteen eighty-nine marked the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of World War II, an event which did not pass unnoticed [...]

Protecting Patients And Staff From Medical Equipment Hazards: HEALTH DEVICES ALERTS Online Ultrasonic scanners, surgical lasers, radioactive implants, subcutaneous polymer matrices, magnetic resonance imaging units--the impedimenta of modern health care [...]

CAS ONLINE and DARC: A Comparison STRUCTURE SEARCHING Four large systems for online structure search are available today: STN International/CAS ONLINE, Telelsystemes/QUESTEL/DARC, CIS/SANSS and STN/BEILSTEIN ONLINE. Both CAS ONLINE and [...]

Over the past few years, many information companies put their wares on the Net. Not many, however, were able to meet the demands of the experienced searcher. Now a new [...]

* What problems are caused by simultaneous infusion of aminophylline and perfloxacin? * Does ethanol enhance the effects of aspirin on bleeding time? * What are the general adverse reactions [...]

I know what you're going to say. Not another databank! Between the major players and specialized online companies, is there really a need for yet another provider of technology databases? [...]

If you'eve ever tired to find directory information for Japanese companies online, you know the effort can be hit or miss. A welcome addition to fill this gap is TEIKOKU [...]

Litmus Test For A Computerphile: The American Heritage Electronic Dictionary In my very first PC MONITOR column, I declared that I was no techie. Many of my local library colleagues [...]

Online Access To Legal Article Indices Anyone who does any legal research will agree that the effort is incomplete until law review articles relating to the subject have been located [...]

This column doesn't usually focus on a single company's home page-- most of them use more bandwidth for marketing material than solid information. TechWeb: The Technology Super Site (http://www.techweb.com) is [...]

Every couple of days I'm called on to find articles on the size of a market-- the number of fax service bureaus, the snack food industry, the number of hotels [...]

'Light' or 'lite' products are not restricted to the supermarket. Software producers borrowed the concept to offer lighter versions of their full blown products to home or small business users. [...]