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WEB CIS HISTORY UNIVERSE: ACCESS TO PRIMARY SOURCES Congressional Information Service (800-638-8380; cisinfo@ lexis-nexis.com). www.lexis-nexis.com/histuniv/ Date reviewed: 9/6/99 Price: $825. Research librarians have struggled long and hard to provide better [...]

WEB GENDERWATCH SoftLine Information (800-524-7922; custsupp@slinfo.com). www.softlineweb.com/genderw.htm Date reviewed: 10/2/99 Price: Negotiated by site. When it began as 'Women `R'' (CD-ROM Reviews, LJ 12/97), this file was a full-text database [...]

In the Market Place with iMarket The other day, a client began discussing his plans with me to take his business to a national level. He's a commercial printer who […]

[CD-ROM] LITERARY ERAS: LITERATURE OF THE SPANISH CARRIBEAN TO 1900 Primary Source Media (800-444-0799; sales@psmedia.com). www.psmedia.com Windows 3.1+. 1998. ISBN 1-57803-180-X. Price: Starts at $1995. This title brings together the [...]

[WEB] AMERICAN JOURNEY ONLINE: WESTWARD EXPANSION Primary Source Media (800-444-0799; sales@psmedia.com). www.americanjourney.psmedia.com Date reviewed: 8/14/99 Price: Negotiated by site. Westward Expansion, covering the years 1492-1910, continues the 'American Journey' series [...]

WEB GALE BIOGRAPHY RESOURCE CENTER Gale Group (800-877-4253; galeord@gale.com) www.gale.com. Date reviewed: 7/2/99 Price: Negotiated by site. LEGEND WEB Web-based Database This comprehensive database of biographical information covers approximately 200,000 [...]

WEB POOLE'S PLUS Paratext Inc. (703-318-0285; sales@paratext.com). www.paratext.net Date reviewed: 6/6/99 Price: See www.poolesplus.net. LEGEND WEB Web-based Database The printed Poole's Index, while an important reference title, is not the [...]

[WEB] Softline Information (800-524-7922; slsales@slinfo.com). www.slinfo.com Date reviewed: 6/23/99 Price: $1,795 for two concurrent users; call for other prices. Ever since David Eisenberg's landmark 1993 article in the New England [...]

(WEB) TWENTIETH CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY (1901-1998) Chadwyck-Healey (800-752-0515; sales@chadwyck.com). lion.chadwyck.com Date reviewed: 6/6/99 Price: Negotiated by site. These two databases are part of Chadwyck-Healey's LION (Literature Online) system, which, [...]

(WEB) COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ONLINE Columbia Univ. (212-666-1000, x7134; cw204@columbia.edu). www.ciaonet.org Date reviewed: 6/10/99 Price: Negotiated by site. Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) provides access to the full text of [...]

SOCIOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS SilverPlatter (800-343-0064; info@silverplatter.com). www.silverplatter.com Date reviewed: 4/30/99 Price: Negotiated by site. Like many of you, I still flash back to the horrors of using Sociological Abstracts in print. [...]

FACTS.COM Facts on File News Services 800-363-7976, x247; kpark@facts.com). www.facts.com Date reviewed: 4/30/99 Price: $1350/yr. with weekly updates. When this was reviewed as a CD-ROM (CD-ROM Reviews, LJ 2/1/98), we [...]

HEALTH REFERENCE CENTER The Gale Group (800-347-4253; cemarketing@iacnet.com). library.iacnet.com Date reviewed: 4/29/99 Price: Negotiated by site. If there's a general mantra for the 1990s, it's been 'take a more informed [...]

Poem Finder on the Web. Internet database. Roth, pricing beginning at $600 (single user, single site). Call 1-800-899-ROTH or visit [http://www.poemfinder.com] for subscription information. (Last accessed April 1, 1999.) Now [...]

What Do I Read Next? Online. Gale, pricing starting at $495. (Last accessed September 15, 1998.) What Do I Read Next? Online, part of GaleNet, combines the entries from Gale's [...]

[WEB] Euromonitor International Inc. (800-577-EURO; insight@euromonitorintl.com). www.euromonitor.com Date reviewed: 6/22/03 Price: Academic prices, $10,000-$32,000. The Global Market Information Database (GMID) will be useful to library patrons seeking market data on [...]

[WEB] CLASSIFICATION WEB Cataloging Distribution Svc., Library of Congress (800-255-3666; cdsinfo@loc.gov. lcweb.loc.gov/cds Date reviewed: 10/4/02 Price: Negotiated by site. Classification Web is the web-based successor to Classification Plus on CD-ROM. […]

[WEB] BRITISH AND IRISH WOMEN'S LETTERS AND DIARIES Alexander Street (800-889-5937; sales1@AlexanderStreet.com). www.alexanderstreet.com Date reviewed: 9/17/02-10/9/02 Price: Negotiated by site. British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (BIWLD) is a […]

[WEB] PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS: WALL STREET JOURNAL ProQuest Information & Learning (800-521-0600; pr@il.proquest.com). www.bellhowell.infolearning.com/ division Date reviewed: 9/27/02 Price: Negotiated by site. ProQuest Historical Newspapers offers the standard ProQuest interface […]

LexisNexis Academic & Library Solutions (800-638-8380; academicinfo@lexisnexis.com). www.lexisnexis.com/academic/ luniv/envir/ Date reviewed: 8/20/02 Price: Negotiated by site. WEB What an impressive range of choices LexisNexis Environmental holds for the environmental researcher. [...]

LexisNexis Group (800-340-3244; john.sonta@lexisnexis.com). www.corporateaffiliations.com Date reviewed: 7/22/02 Price: $1,795. WEB The print Directory of Corporate Affiliations and its predecessors have been a valuable reference in business libraries since the [...]

[WEB] Burke's Peerage & Gentry (+44 (0) 1642 713530; admin @ burkes -peerage. net). www.burkes-peerage.net Date reviewed: 5/27/02 Price: $599. Burke's Peerage & Gentry Online, 'the authentic genealogical guide to [...]

[WEB] Chadwyck-Healey (800-521-0600; knoweurope@chadwyck.co.uk). www.chadwyck.com Date reviewed: 4/21/02 Price: Negotiated by site. The title is descriptive, and the uncluttered, easy-to-read Welcome screen says it all for the new user: 'KnowEurope [...]

[WEB] Gale (800-877-4253; galeord@gale.com). www.gale.com Date reviewed: 4/14/02 Price: Negotiated by site. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (OVRC), Gale's newest database for high school and undergraduate students, presents current events topics [...]

[WEB] Merriam-Webster Inc. (413-734-3134; mwsales@merriam-webster.com). www.Merriam-Webster.com Date reviewed: 4/12/02 Price: $29.95/yr. or $4.95/month. With a tag line boldly proclaiming 'the dictionary is just the beginning,' the new subscription site based [...]

[WEB] Alexander Street Pr. (800-889-5937; siegel@AlexanderStreet.com). www.alexanderstreet.com Date Reviewed: 4/19/02 Price: Negotiated by site. Early Encounters currently contains over 10,000 pages of primary source material from 92 authors documenting the [...]

Dialog@CARL Provider: The Library Corporation (TLC/CARL); Content: The Dialog Corporation; www.tlccarl.com/dialog; 800-325-7759; support@TLCdelivers.com WEB Dialog@CARL offers users the simplicity of an easy-to-navigate graphical interface to approximately 300 multidisciplinary Dialog databases. [...]

Published by SoftLine Information/ ProQuest Information and Learning. Content The newest database product from SoftLine Information (publishers of Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, and Diversity Your World), Alt-PressWatch provides full-text access to [...]

AccuWeather Educational Division Content With the vast photo library of the Associated Press as its primary calling card and equally impressive databases of graphics, audio files, and full-text reports from [...]

Pension Tracker ™ 2001. CCH Incorporated. Online service. $259 annually. Free for subscribers to CCH's Internet Pension Plan Guide. Reduced price for subscribers to CD-ROM and print versions of Pension [...]

[Content] Since 1914 Public Affairs Information Service has dedicated itself 'to providing better access to the literature of public affairs--current issues and actions that affect world communities, countries, people, and [...]

[Content] International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA), from the International Political Science Association, is a bibliographic database, providing abstracts to literature in foreign affairs, political science, international relations, public administration, and [...]

Modern Language Association International Bibliography Modern Language Association Content For the past 80 years, the Modern Language Association (MLA) has been providing bibliographic access to scholarly research in the fields [...]

Literary Theory ProQuest Information and Learning (www.infolearning.com; 800-521-0600) CD-ROM & WEB A specialized database of texts tracing literary theory and criticism from Plato to the present day in the form [...]

DISCovering Collection Gale Group; www.galegroup.com Content The DISCovering Collection is a newly restructured database, fashioned with content and resources from 21 Gale Group products, including DISCovering Authors, EXPLORING Novels, EXPLORING [...]

[WEB] KEESING'S RECORD OF WORLD EVENTS Keesing's Worldwide (800-332-3535: sales@keesings.com). www.keesings.com Dates reviewed: 10/7/01 Price: Negotiated by site. Most reference librarians are familiar with Keesing's and aware of the role [...]

THE ORGANIZATION OF THOUGHT When ThinkTank first came on the market in 1983, it was heralded as a whole new class of software in the industry. This class was referred […]

The Dow Jones Interactive service is wide, deep, and Web-smart The great Dow Jones Web Exodus is done. With the introduction of Dow Jones Interactive, the final piece of the […]

Children's books are coming to life this holiday season, as CD-ROM publishers rush to capture some of Living Books' young audience. Most of the titles combine a favorite story with […]

The most successful art titles of this season are Monet, Verlaine, Debussy: The Impressionist Revolution and Matisse, Aragon, Prokofiev: An Interactive Adventure in Art (New Line New Media, $49.98 each, […]

Encyclopedias like the Britannica CD 2.0 (Encyclopaedia Britannica, $695, 800/323-1229) are the best arguments for CD-ROM power. Not only does this single disc include all 32 volumes of the print […]

Information Access Company is a database factory. Over the years it has developed products that have become research necessities in business, technology, and other subjects. Its business/technology quartet of PROMT, […]

The McGraw-Hill Science Navigator, Release 3.0, is a digitization of the full text of the McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 3rd edition, along with terms, definitions, and biographical […]