Re: REF: NewsBank-Fiche vs. ROM

[Babette Pitt <bpitt@UMD5.UMD.EDU>]

Hi, Just a point of information...ProQuest from UMI includes the NYTimes
and pieces of USAToday as well as the many magazines. Good Luck!
Babs Pitt  Richard Montgomery HS bpitt@umd5.umd.edu

On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, Floyd Pentlin wrote:

> Well group -- I certainly appreciate all of you who responded to my
> question about which format of NewsBank are you using.
>
> Serendipitously, the NewsBank rep called about my renewal and I was able
> to ask some questions about no longer supporting fiche as has been
> reported by several.  She indicated that fiche will continue to be part
> of the package for the foreseeable future but the full-text ROM is going
> by a new name and will shortly cover 500 sources of info -- up from the
> 100 or so by CD-NewsBank.  The new full-text NewsBank, called Newsfile,
> will be annual accumulations.
>
> So the question still is:  Fiche or ROM?  I think we will go to full-text
> ROM next year even though the full subscription will give us both.  ROM
> can be networked throughout the building which is a goal.  We will keep
> the indexing software to support the backfiles of fiche that we have.
>
> It is too bad the price is the same for full-text ROM with or without the
> fiche.  We will probably store the fiche since we get it anyway, but not
> file it.
>
> The issues this brings up is, of course, the number of networked drives
> we will be able to allot to NewsBank for the annual accumulations (but we
> have the same problem with the New York Times as well.
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
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