Gale Directory of Databases

Recommended supplement

 

The July 1997 issue of the Gale Directory of Databases (ISBN 0-8103-5754-2) contains contact and descriptive information on more than 11,500 databases, more than 3,700 producers, and more than 2,100 on-line services and vendors/distributors of database products-easily making it the most complete guide to the electronic database industry worldwide. For more information, call (800) 877-GALE.

The Gale Directory of Databases is published in two volumes, which are revised and updated every six months:

Volume 1: Online Databases-profiles approximately 5,900 on-line databases made publicly available from the producer or an on-line service.
Volume 2: CD-ROM, Diskette, Magnetic Tape, Handheld, and Batch Access Database Products-profiles more than 5,550 database products offered in "portable" form and through batch processing.

Each volume of the Gale Directory of Databases contains three sections of descriptive entries and three indexes:

The Directory is available on a subscription basis through GaleNet, a new on-line information resource that features an easy-to-use interface, the powerful search capabilities of the BRS/SEARCH retrieval software, and ease of access through the World Wide Web. For information, call Melissa Kolehmainen at (800) 877-GALE, ext. 1598.

As long as we're on the subject of information technology, it certainly would be wise to include at least one other important source that describes the information highway: Internet World: The Magazine for Savvy Internet Users (ISSN 1064-3923). It's available through Meckler-Media Corporation at (800) 573-3062. This magazine, besides being very informative about otherwise esoteric subjects, can also have some pretty racy topics: "Corporate Censors," for example, pointed out that "A Nielsen audit of the Penthouse site turned up heavy traffic coming from IBM, Apple, AT&T, Bell, DEC and Hewlett-Packard."

Internet World is a great magazine if only because it reads easy enough to involve most of us in the world of computers, a situation that will become more and more necessary. Internet World (130 pages) has a colorful, crisp and sometimes irreverent approach that makes the reader feel at ease with the subject. It has a particular bent for students, such as "Earn a Master's, Virtually," (The Internet gives grad school a new twist-and a new life-as more colleges offer classes through the wire) by Vicky Phillips. Along with the 10 or so feature articles and columns of excellent reference material, the departments offer entertaining and informative essays through "Internet Forum," "Internet News," "The Surfboard," "The Bookshelf," and other sources. The editors also provide a "Home Page Forum" with products and services immediately available through the company's URL. The standard index to advertisers includes an editorial product index that provides a Web site address. The magazine can be reached on the Web at www.iworld.com.

You may also wish to get a copy of New Riders' Internet Yellow Pages (ISBN 1-56-205-6719). If you are interested in more information go to www.mcp.com/Newriders. Be careful when you go to the bookstore though; computer how-to's and directories have to be the longest shelf there.

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