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  2. From: takefuji@donald.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (Yoshiyasu Takefuji)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.internet.library
  4. Subject: Re: Free DIALOG on the internet?
  5. Date: 21 Nov 1992 15:03:12 GMT
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  20. Date: 21 Nov 1992 09:55:53 -0500 (EST)
  21. From: ROGERS_M@bms.com
  22. Subject: Re: Free DIALOG on the internet?
  23. To: takefuji@donald.EEAP.CWRU.Edu
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  30. In article <1ek46kINN5o5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, you write...
  31. >From bernd@cc.uow.edu.au Mon Nov 16 22:28:58 1992
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  42. >Newsgroups: sci.engr,comp.internet.library,soc.libraries.talk
  43. >Path: bernd
  44. >From: bernd@cc.uow.edu.au (Bernd Wechner)
  45. >Subject: Literature searches using the Internet?
  46. >Message-Id: <1992Nov17.032318.15734@cc.uow.edu.au>
  47. >Organization: University Of Wollongong
  48. >Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 03:23:18 GMT
  49. >Apparently-To: comp-internet-library@munnari.oz.au
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  52. >I'd like to perform a literature search. The sort of thing we used to
  53. do
  54. >at a library with volumes and volumes of indexed abstracts (like the
  55. >Engineering index for example). Nowadays we use CD databases, and for
  56. >the most current and up to date info, our librarian dials a mob by
  57. the
  58. >name of DIALOG in California somewhere, for on-line searches.
  59. >
  60. >It occurs to me that such a facility may well be on-line on the
  61. >internet somewhere in the glorious day and age of ours. Am right?
  62.  
  63. Yes.  I believe their address is dialog.com.  You would no doubt save
  64. substantially on communications charges, but using Dialog would NOT be
  65. free.
  66.  
  67.  
  68. >
  69. >Thanks,
  70. >
  71. >Bernd.
  72.  
  73.