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D -- DIGITAL ELECTRONIC ACCESS TO LICENSED PUBLICATIONS AND JOURNALS SOL 3014 DUE 031700 POC Douglas Joyner 202-7204955 The USDA/ARS/NAL intends to award a sole source contract to Academic Press, for a license agreement permitting electronic access to tables of contents, abstracts and full-text of the Academic Press, W.B. Saunders and Churchill Livingstone journals on the International Digital Electronic Access Library (IDEAL) for journals bearing publication dates 1996 through 2000. The estimated award date is March 17, 2000. See numbered Note 22. Posted 03/02/00 (W-SN430532). (0062)

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