FEDLINK will be hosting a series of ProQuest new
product demonstrations. There will be two sessions per day (9:30 a.m.
to 11:30 a.m. or 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.). Sign up for
one demonstration or all four! (See below for registration
information)
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ProQuest Historical
Newspapers - Thursday, September 5, 2002
ProQuest Historical
Newspapers program offers Web access to the complete back runs of
The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science
Monitor, The Washington Post, and other leading newspapers, in full article
and page image.
Safari Tech Books Online from ProQuest -
Tuesday, September 17, 2002
ProQuest Information and
Learning's Safari Tech Books Online offers online
information technology books from the industry's two leading publishers:
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., and The Pearson Technology Group, with imprints
including Addison-Wesley Professional, Adobe Press, Cisco Press, New Riders,
Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall PTR, Que, and Sams. The Safari Tech Books
Online information retrieval service is a ready-reference resource, with
simultaneous searching of hundreds of top IT titles for quick and reliable
answers. In most cases, new titles are available in Safari
Tech Books Online even before they appear in print.
ProQuest Intelligence Resources - Tuesday, October 3,
2002
Through the
Chadwyck-Healey brand name, ProQuest has created Web and CD-ROM collections
of U.S. foreign policy, terrorism, and geopolitical data from the European
Union, Middle East and Pacific Rim. Databases like Digital National
Security Archives, PolicyFile and ProQuest Reference Asia contain
official, declassified data from U.S., E.U. and other foreign government
sources.
ProQuest Ethnic News Resources - Thursday, October 10,
2002
Softline
Information Resources has joined the ProQuest family of social sciences
databases. Through Ethnic NewsWatch, Diversity: Your World,
GenderWatch and Alt-PressWatch, ProQuest provides current and
archival access to more than 500 newspapers and magazines from ethnic,
minority, native, gender-based, alternative, and independent press sources.
Their coverage of non-mainstream topics and viewpoints provides an important
balance to standard resources.
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FLICC/FEDLINK will be hosting these presentations in the Library of
Congress National Digital Library Learning Center in the Madison Building, at
First and Independence Avenue, S.E., Washington, D.C. The Metro stop is Capitol
South on the Orange and Blue Lines.
The events are free, but
seating is limited. Please sign up today by calling FLICC at (202)
707-4800. Please request ADA Accommodations five business days in advance
at (202) 707-6362 TTY or [log in to unmask].