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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:12:00 PST
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- From: Nick G Carter <ng_carter@CCMAIL.PNL.GOV>
- Subject: Re: CD_ROM for CE dept. Library
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- On 12/22/92 Dr. Arkin asked:
-
- >Subject: CD-ROM for CE Library
- >We are trying to decide about a CD-ROM for our library, at the National
- >Institute for Building Research, Israel. This is a scientific library,
- >serving some 100 researchers in the fields mentioned below. We prefer
- >that the Databases will include mainly (though not only) English
- >written articles in scientific or scientific-popular periodicals or in
- >scientific books. It should cover the following topics:
-
- >1. BUILDING MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY;
- >2. CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS;
- >3. PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE OF BUILDINGS;
- >4. BUILDING SERVICE SYSTEMS (HVAC; PLUMBING; ELECTRICITY; ELEVATORS
- ETC.);
- >5. STRUCTURES.
-
- We are using the Dialog OnDisc product, Compendex Plus One. This gives you a
- complete year of Compendex (Engineering Index), and quarterly (soon to become
- monthly, I think I read) Updates for another year. Thus, at the end of two
- years, you have a decent span of information. I believe that Dialog has other
- time spans of this product available. In our Sci-Tech library, it is one of the
- most popular CDs we have. The price is rather high, at $3500 for standalone,
- and $7000 for network usage. It has both the Dialog command menu searching, and
- an "easy user menu" which is quite good. ISI is also producing some technical
- CD-ROMs, such as Chemistry, and Materials Science.
-
- Nick Carter
- Systems Administrator
- Battelle Pac N'West Lab
- Richland, WA
- ng_carter@pnl.gov
-