Target: Periodical Databases - opinions

[Judy Turner <jturner@TCDE.TEHAMA.K12.CA.US>]

California has recently negotiated state-wide prices for online and CD-ROM
databases with eight different companies (a total of 39 products for K-12).

What do you feel are the strengths, weaknesses, and unique features of any
of the following programs?  If you have had experience with more than one,
which
do you prefer and why?

TIA for your help.  I'll post a HIT.  (The only previous HIT on this topic I
found was from Melba Kurman on 28 Apr 1998, "Best Database Products for
Middle Schools.")

Bell & Howell (formerly UMI)
   ProQuest Direct Collections: Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze (online)
   ProQuest Junior Quest Complete and ProQuest Limited (online)
   KidQuest (online)
   Periodical Abstracts Plus Text (CD-ROM)
   Resource One Full Text (CD-ROM)
   Resource One Select Full Text (CD-ROM)

EBSCO Publishing
   MAS FullTEXT Ultra (online)
   MAS Online Plus and MAS Online
   MAS FullTEXT family: Premier, Elite, Select (CD-ROM)
   Middle Search Plus (online & CD-ROM)
   Primary Search (online & CD-ROM)
   TOPICsearch (online & CD-ROM)

Facts on File News Service
   Facts on File World News Digest (CD-ROM)

Gale Group (formerly Information Access)
   General Reference Center Gold (online)
   SuperTOM (online & CD-ROM)
   InfoTrac Junior Edition (formerly Primary TOM) (online & CD-ROM)
   Health Reference Center - Academic (online & CD-ROM)
   TOM Health and Science (CD-ROM)
   Informe! (Spanish) (online & CD-ROM)

Infonautics Corporation
   Electric Library (online)
   Electric Library Elementary (online)

NewsBank, Inc.
   NewsBank News File Collection (online)
   NewsBank Popular Periodicals (online)
   Noticias en Espanol (Spanish) (online)

SIRS Mandarin, Inc.
   SIRS Discoverer Deluxe (online & CD-ROM)
   SIRS Discoverer (Middle Edition) (CD-ROM)
   SIRS Discoverer (Elementary Edition) (CD-ROM)
   SIRS Renaissance (online & CD-ROM)
   SIRS Researcher (online & CD-ROM)
   SIRS Government Reporter (online & CD-ROM)

SoftLine Information, Inc.
   Ethic News Watch (online & CD-ROM)




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Judy Turner, Librarian/IMC Supervisor     jturner@tcde.tehama.k12.ca.us
Tehama County Department of Education
www.mc.tcde.tehama.k12.ca.us/welcome.html
P.O. Box 689,  Red Bluff, CA  96080          (530) 527-5811   FAX 530-529-4120
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