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According to the Pew Hispanic Center, the rapid growth of the Hispanic population is now coupled with a second significant demographic phenomenon, 'the emergence of new settlement areas where the [...]

ELECTRONICALLY SPEAKING ... Gale is marketing one of the hottest products seen in quite awhile: the Times Digital Archive is, in the current argot, awesome. It has text plus page [...]

All litigators want to know if the last document they sent to the court was received and indexed. And, all attorneys, whether litigators or practitioners in other areas, want to [...]

Mr. Frank's eight-grade chemistry class is exploring the periodic table of the elements. One student, Maria has decided to focus on the element argon. Using books and pre-selected Internet sites, [...]

Background Released in January 1996, Claris's latest version of FileMaker Pro brings relational properties to a database that was previously a flat file system. Claris came out with FileMaker Pro [...]

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 [...]

PC World editors and contributors audition literally hundreds of CD-ROM packages throughout the year, but only a handful make it to these pages. Here are the select silver platters that […]

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 [...]

The advent of CD-ROM technology in recent years has led to the development of an unprecedented number of products in the English-speaking world, both CD-ROM versions of products already existing […]

Nucleotide and amino acid sequences are increasingly located in separate databases such as GenBank, EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory), PIR (Protein Identification Resource), etc., rather than being included with the […]

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 [...]

DeLorme's MapExpert will tell you where to go. It comprises a geographic database derived from several private and public sources. It uses the same database of vector graphics maps as […]

The Omni Gazetteer on CD-ROM represents the automated version of the Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America, published recently in eleven printed volumes. It contains place names, facts, […]

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 [...]

Niche databanks are sprouting in small sectors in the information environment that large comprehensive databanks can't easily fill. Despite their immense range, systems like DIALOG and NEXIS cannot supply every [...]

Full-text access to business information remains one of the fastest growing arenas for online searching. Prominent among the many options for searching newspapers, trade journals, newswires, newsletters, and other document [...]

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 [...]

This is the first in a series of reviews of CD-I-based products that, I believe, will become part of library collections. During the last year or so, I have written [...]

In creating The Music Index on CD-ROM, Chadwyck-Healey has combined the printed product of the same title with CD Answer ™ retrieval software. To review the combined product, one may [...]

The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry contains the complete text of 8,500 classic poems, 3,000 quotations from 1,500 more recent poems, and anthology locations for an additional 80,000 poems. The [...]

Magazine Article Summaries (MAS), one of several EBSCO Reference Desk CD-ROMs, comes in versions for the public or academic library. The public library version indexes over 300 journals from such [...]

Concordance IRS has many features that make it desirable for professional database uses. Meeting minutes, customer and prospect tracking, case law, witness depositions, litigation document support, bibliographic files, case histories, […]

Countries of the World (COTW) contains a full-text collection of 106 U.S. government study books as well as maps, flags of all countries, and anthems. It also has more current [...]

Business Lists-on-Disc, as mentioned previously, contains over 9.2 million business listings from yellow page directories nationwide and is aimed primarily at the commercial user, who makes extensive use of yellow [...]

Wilson Business Abstracts is the newest addition to the H.W. Wilson line of CD-ROM products. According to the company's promotional material, 'Wilson Business Abstracts provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for [...]

An examination of CD-ROM directories would lead us to conclude that the consumer market has a wide variety of CD-ROMs with yellow page information. While many foreign countries have only [...]

UMI's Prodirect: business comprises a yellow pages directory to over nine million businesses in the United States, with information taken from about 4,800 telephone directories. American Business Information of Omaha, [...]

Guinness Disc of Records Product: Guinness Disc of Records, 1991 Edition. Search Software: Britannica Software's SmarTrieve Publisher's Toolkit. Hardware Requirements: IBM/compatible with 640K RAM, CD-ROM drive, MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions, Hard […]

ProQuest Newspaper Ondisc, CD-ROM databases from University Microfilms International (UMI), make full-text access to major U.S. newspapers inexpensive, especially to current subscribers to the newspapers on microfilm. The UMI ProQuest [...]

The U.S. government has made available, since 1879, the Index Medicus, a major bibliographic tool for searching the medical literature. The online version of Index Medicus, Medline, dates back to [...]

Cross-Cultural CD (CCCD), published by SilverPlatter, comprises a subset of the Huamn Relations Area File (HRAF), archive, a microfiche collection of excerpts from ethnographic sources in the fields of anthropology, [...]

CD-ROM technology has made a machine-readable affordable for libraries of all sizes. Until the introduction of BiblioFile in 1985, libraries used one or more of the following sources for current [...]

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 [...]

The International Food Information Service (IFIS) has published Food Science and Technology Abstracts since 1969. Now IFIS, in conjunction with SilverPlatter, makes the Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA) available [...]

MOVE consists of a retrospective database that indexes over 37,000 technical papers published by the Society of Automotive Engineers, covering every paper issued from 1906 to 1990. While most sci-tech [...]

The Washington Post Ondisc, one of the latest products in University Microfilms International's (UMI) ProQuest collection, was produced jointly by UMI and the Washington Post Company. The Washington Post, a [...]

If you think that the electronic library is light-years away from becoming reality, then you probably have never seen any of UMI's Image Databases Ondisc, which includes Business Periodicals Ondisc [...]

Just the Facts, Ma'am! Those large, blue binders of Facts on File ® are a comforting sight in any reference room. Not only do they contain up-to-date weekly summaries of […]

The University of California's Melvyl Current Contents database contains article citations and table of contents records from more than 6,500 journals in all disciplines of the arts and humanities, sciences, […]

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 [...]

ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY Product: Inside Information Publisher: Microlytics, Inc. 2 Tobey Village Office Park Pittsford, NY 14534 (716) 248-9150 Hardware: Macintosh Plus or higher, 1MB RAM; hard disk with 700K free [...]

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 [...]

Electronic Sweet's Sweet's Catalog Files consist of multiple volumes of information on building products. In response to user requests, the producer developed Electronic Sweet's to provide a faster and more [...]

Food Science And Technology Abstracts On CD-ROM Food Science & Technology Abstracts (FSTA) is a major bibliographic database with abstracts produced by the International Food Information Service (IFIS) covering: Food […]