CD-ROM information products : an evaluative guide and directory

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CD-ROM information products : an evaluative guide and directory

edited by C.J. Armstrong and J.A. Large

Gower, c1990-c1992

  • v. 1
  • v. 2
  • v. 3

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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Vol. 2: subtitle: The evaluative guide

Vol. 3 published by Ashgate

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v. 1 ISBN 9780566036262

内容説明

The number and variety of CD-ROM products has mushroomed since they first appeared on the commercial market in 1985. This book is a reference and guide to this field. It is divided into two distinct parts. The first part is designed to help evaluate the different products available. It provides a picture of the content and performance of 19 CD-ROM products including considerations of the database, the search software, installation procedures and documentation. The guide covers a cross-section of different subjects and product types and includes software from the UK and the USA. The second part is a directory of over 500 CD-ROMs, either available or announced, and arranged by subject. Details of addresses of publishers, suppliers and distributors are given throughout.
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v. 2 ISBN 9780566036453

内容説明

The production of CD-ROMs continues apace. As the market burgeons, it becomes more important to question the worth and usefulness of many of these new products. The variety of form and content indicates that publication on disc has now reached every sector. This second volume of CD-ROM Information Products acts as a complementary reference source to Volume 1 and contains detailed evaluations of 22 CD-ROM products. As in Volume 1 these products were selected as being a cross-section of subjects (general science, demography, business), and a cross-section of types (bibliographic, citation index, directory) from both sides of the Atlantic. Not only do the evaluations give in-depth information to someone contemplating buying a particular product, but they provide models for general evaluation techniques, indicate the facilities typically available on CD-ROMs and provide an awareness of possible shortcomings. Each review deals with the same review criteria in the same order and begins with a double-page "fact sheet". The directory section, seen to be a valuable back-up to the evaluations, contains a list of some 1200 CD-ROM products arranged by broad subject groupings. Each entry provides the names of distributors and producers, the database type, a price code, a brief product description and an Apple Macintosh/IBM PC compatability indication. Products which have been announced but are not yet available are flagged as such and those CD-ROMs which have reviews in this series are also marked. Each CD-ROM entry is allocated a running number for identification in the indexes. Where a database is available as more than one product - from different suppliers - each version is separately listed. The Directory is followed by the addresses of all companies (publishers, producers and suppliers) named in the entries. The directory is supplied with three indexes. The General Index lists subjects and database types in one alphabetical sequence. The subjects indexed are somewhat more detailed than the subject headings used for the arrangement of the Directory (for example, Medicine is a subject heading, but an index entry will also be found under Pharmaceutical). The Directory Title Index or product index lists CD-ROMs by title, and as in the Evaluation Index, includes variant title names. Finally, a Company Index lists all the publishers, producers and distributors; it should be noted that the General and Company Indexes may provide several references to what turns out to be the same title because some titles have been allocated to more than one subject heading and have therefore been given more than one identification number.

目次

  • CD-ROM review
  • Agricola
  • Business Periodicals Ondisc
  • Canadian business and current affairs
  • Catalogue of United Kingdom
  • official publications
  • CIA World Fact Book
  • computer library
  • county and city statistics
  • dangerous goods
  • ERIC
  • Facts on File
  • News Digest
  • Harrap's Multilingual CD-ROM dictionary
  • JUSTIS
  • Kompass CD
  • magazine article summaries
  • Medline - SilverPlatter
  • MLA International Bibliography
  • OSH-ROM
  • Oxford Textbook of Medicine
  • Periodicals Abstracts Ondisc
  • Post Office Address File (PAF on CD)
  • Pravda
  • Shakespear on Disc
  • World Atlas (Electromap).
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v. 3 ISBN 9781857420029

内容説明

This third volume of CD-ROM information products acts as a complementary reference source to Volumes 1 and 2, and contains detailed evaluations of 11 CD-ROM products, providing in-depth information for those contemplating buying particular products.

目次

  • BNB on CD-ROM
  • BookFind - CD
  • CAB abstracts
  • Canadian newspapers - comparative review ("Periodisc la Presse"
  • "The Toronto Star")
  • FAME
  • index to legal periodicals
  • Medline - CD plus
  • Psyndex
  • TERMIUM
  • UK newspapers - comparative review ("The Guardian", "The Independant", "The Northern Echo", "Times" and "Sunday Times", "British Newspaper Index")
  • Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary.

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