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CD-ROM Collection  ABC-CLIO
Interactive EncyclopediasABC-CLIO
ResourceLink Books in Print Plus Encyclopedia Americana Famous American Speeches Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Information USA Marquis Who's Who Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia ProQuest General Periodicals Ondisc-GPO ProQuest : The New York Times Ondisc Select Phone Select Street Atlas 16 Million Business Phone Book Thomas Register 2 Million Fax Numbers Directory United States Code USA State Factbook
ABC-CLIO Interactive Encyclopedias This collection of CD-ROMs represents the next generation of encyclopedias.
These interactive titles are robust and compelling examples of text being
fully complimented by illustrative multimedia components. Each thematic CD-ROM
is tightly focused, with authoritative, reliable, and meaningful information.
Books In Print with Book Reviews PLUS includes all ordering information for books published or distributed in the United States. Searchable by author name, ISBN, keyword, publisher name, subject, title, and series title. It also includes almost 300,000 full-text book reviews.
This full-text database contains the biographies and obituaries that have appeared in Current Biography Yearbook since 1983 and an index of Current Biography back to 1940. The disc search menu includes three parts: Name and profession search, Multiple subject search and Command language disc search.
The Encyclopedia Americana Ondisc mainly consists of four parts:
Facts on File World News Digest Facts on File World News Digest on CD-ROM is a universal reference system that puts all the basic facts of U.S. and world news for the years 1980 through 1995 at your fingertips. This CD-ROM contains sixteen full years of weekly news stories and cumulative indexes on a single CD-ROM disc. With this CD-ROM, you can browse over 600,000 entries in the cumulative indexes, and more than 300 maps of the U.S., Canada, and the rest of the world. The indexes also offer thousands of cross-references to guide you to additional information on a subject. Searchable by keywords, date, and year.
This CD-ROM offers you a multimedia history of the United States, from 1850 to the present. You can search hundreds of famous American speeches by subject, speakers, time line, multimedia or use study guide. The audio clips, photographs, and video clips are available in some speeches.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia It is a CD-ROM containing more than 35,000 articles with comprehensive indexes of all the articles, pictures, maps, and multimedia features.
Information USA is an authoritative resource for foreign audiences seeking information about official U.S. policies and informed commentary on American society, culture and political processes.
Biographies of more than 750,000 notable individuals.
Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia More than 30,000 authoritative articles, 300,000 links to related topics, more than 1,500 links to the Internet, plus available online updates.
ProQuest: General Periodicals Ondisc – GPO General Periodicals Ondisc (GPO) provides abstracts and indexing to over 1,100 academic journals, popular magazines, and key business publications from 1986 to the present. Current coverage of articles from the most recent six months of The New York Times is also included. ProQuest-GPO makes available in full text over 300 periodicals.
ProQuest: The New York Times Ondisc The full editorial content of The New York Times from 1995 to the present. Included are articles on national and international news, business, finance, editorials, regular columns, local and regional news, sports, supplements (including the Book Review and Magazine), biographical stories, news wire stories, and text based tables.
Select Phone is an easy-to-use CD-ROM reference tool that gives you instant access to over millions of business and residential listings across the United States. It is divided into seven CD-ROM discs: Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Great Lakes, South, North Central, South Central and Pacific. Listings may be searched by name, street address, city, state, ZIP code, telephone number, and business type or SIC code.
The two discs CD-ROM is a complete digital street-level map of the United States. With this Select Street Atlas, you can locate any place in the country quickly and easily; find and identify individual streets anywhere in the United States; choose from a database of 1 million important business, travel, and personal destinations and add them to the maps.
16 Million Businesses Phone Book This CD-ROM contains over 16 million U.S. and Canadian business organizations. Searchable by business name or phone number, you also can narrow your search by State/Province, City or Zip/Postal Code.
Thomas Register on CD-ROM helps you stay connected to more than 156,000 U.S. and Canadian Manufacturers in seconds. Its customized search engine lets you zip through over 58,000 product and service headings to find exactly what you need. You have four options to search for information quickly and easily: by product or service, by company name, by brand name or by catalog index.
2 Million Fax Numbers Directory 2 Million Fax Numbers Phone Book on CD-ROM lets you search and find the fax number of 2 million U.S. and Canada Businesses. With this CD-ROM you can search for a business anywhere in the U.S. and Canada to see their phone number and fax number, or you can search by a phone or fax number to find the business listing.
U.S. Code on CD-ROM contains the full text of all federal laws, of a general and permanent nature. Searchable by title, section numbers and keyword.
The USA State Factbook is an electronic almanac of the fifty United States and its territories. The disc includes extensive examinations of state geography, vital statistics (people), government / politics, economics, lines of communication / transportation, icons, traditions, and other state and territory specific information. Searchable by state name, subject and keyword. |
