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D -- SUBCRIPTION OF OCLC COLLECTION, BOOKS IN PRINT, AND INSPEC SOL N00039-98-R-3024 DUE 091698 POC Heidi Radaford, 619-524-7386 E-MAIL: For more information, contact the Contract Specialist, radaford@spawar.navy.mil. This procurement will provide for a consortium of Navy libraries to provide access via the World Wide Web to databases containing bibliographic information related to physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computers and control and information technology. This consortium requires articles from scientific and technical journals and conferences, and includes books, reports and dissertations. The consortium will purchase OCLC Collection which includes six databases: WorldCat is the largest online catalog of 37 million books, videos, sound recordings, maps, scores, manuscripts, and archives; also contains holdings records for many Naval libraries. ArticleFirst is a journal citation from over 13,000 serials and 5.5 million articles. ContentsFirst is a complete table of content pages from more than 13,000 journals. FastDoc is a database of more than 900,000 articles. NetFirst is an index of Internet resources. Union List of Periodicals is more than 7 million records of periodical holdings linked to records indexed in WorldCat. The second online subscription, Books in Print provides a complete, publisher-verified information on all US books in print. Books in Print also includes 900,000 new or revised records each year and covers scholarly, technical, popular, adult, juvenile and reprint titles. In addition, complete profiles of publishers and distributors are included, and is a primary resource used by publishers, book dealers and libraries. The third online subscription, INSPEC is the largest English-language file of bibliographic information and abstracts on the world's output of published works in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing and information technology. SPAWAR plans to award a sole source contract to Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), 6565 Frantz Road, Dublin, OH 43017-3395. OCLC offers a uniquely bundled package of unlimited access to two heavily used, non-OCLC databases, BIP and INSPEC, in addition to their own OCLC Collection. See Numbered Note: 22 ***** Posted 09/01/98 (W-SN244230). (0244)

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