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pay a fee per abstract and per full text article. These fees are added to your normal
CompuServe access rates.
ZiffNet also offers Magazine Database Plus, a database with stories from over 130
magazines (1994) covering science, business, sport, people, personal finance, family, art
and handicraft, cooking, education, environment, travel, politics, consumer opinions,
and reviews of books and films.
The magazines include: Administrative Management, Aging, Changing Times, The
Atlantic, Canadian Business, Datamation, Cosmopolitan, Dun's Business Month, The
Economist, The Futurist, High Technology Business, Journal of Small Business
Management, Management Today, The Nation, The New Republic, Online, Playboy,
Inc., Popular Science, Research & Development, Sales & Marketing Management,
Scientific American, Technology Review, UN Chronicle, UNESCO Courier, U.S. News
& World Report, and World Press Review. (In Chapter 11, we present another ZiffNet
magazine database: the Business Database Plus.)
Magazine Index (MI), from Information Access Company (U.S.A.) covers over 500
consumer and general interest periodicals as diverse as Special Libraries and Sky &
Telescope, Motor Trend and Modern Maturity, Reader's Digest and Rolling Stone. Many
titles go as far back as 1959.
Although most of the database consists of brief citations, MI also contains the
complete text of selected stories from a long list of periodicals. It is available through
several commercial vendors.
The Ei Compendex database (Ei CPXWeb) from Engineering Information offers
information on various disciplines of engineering, from marine to chemical to electrical
to nuclear. Over 3 million summaries of journal articles and conference proceedings, and
220,000 new additions every year.
What to do if you have so many references to a given magazine that you want to
check it out? Try the Electronic Newsstand. It has links to over 2,000 magazine sites
(1996). If you like, you can subscribe (with discounts) to over 300 of them.
Finding that book
Many libraries are accessible through the Internet. For a list of links to library web
servers, look up Libweb, or webCATS. Both Libweb and webCATS have geographical
indexes with links to libraries in Africa, Americas, Asia/Pacific Rim, and Europe/Middle
East. Also, check the Searchable Bibliographies & Major Library Catalogs page.
Some libraries can be searched by Internet mail. This is the case with BIBSYS, a
database operated by the Norwegian universities' libraries.
I am into transcendental meditation, and therefore constantly look for books on
narrow topics like "mantra." To search BIBSYS for titles of interest, I sent a mail to
genserv@pollux.bibsys.no. The search word was in the subject title of the message. By
return email, I got the following report:
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 93 13:54:18 NOR
From: GENSERV@POLLUX.BIBSYS.NO
Subject: Searching BIBSYS
Search request : MANTRA
Database id : BIBSYS
Search result : 5 hits.
The following is one of the references that I forwarded to my local library for
processing:
Forfatter : Gonda, J.
Tittel : Mantra interpretation in the Satapatha Brahmana
/ by J. Gonda.
Trykt : Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1988.
Sidetall : X, 285 s.
I serie : (Orientalia Rheno traiectina ; 32)
ISBN : 90 04 08776 1
1 UHF 90ka03324 UHF/INDO Rh III b Gon
The Russian State Library has a books by e mail system that lets readers around the
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