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New SilverPlatter Databases
SilverPlatter Information now offers access to three new research resources -- FRANCIS, PASCAL Biomed and PASCAL SciTech. Each provides international, scholarly coverage of their disciplines and can be purchased individually or combined in either the INIST Research Collection (FRANCIS, PASCAL Biomed, PASCAL SciTech) or the PASCAL package (PASCAL Biomed, PASCAL Sci Tech). The PASCAL databases (Biomed and SciTech) provide multidisciplinary and multilingual resourcing with trilingual indexing which allows keyword searching in French, English or Spanish regardless of the article's original language. The FRANCIS database provides abstracts of articles, books and other documents with citation descriptors in both English and French.

PASCAL Biomed holds the core of world literature on medicine and life sciences in more than six million references. It covers more than 6,500 major international journals, reports, periodical articles, doctoral dissertations and conference proceedings in all aspects of medical sciences, providing a special emphasis on European literature.

PASCAL SciTech is a unique multidisciplinary and multilingual bibliographic database in science and technology. It covers the major international journals, reports and conference proceedings.

The FRANCIS database is a scholarly reference for the humanities and social sciences. Disciplines covered include art history, literature, psychology, philosophy, sociology, linguistics, ethnology, geography, archaeology, prehistory, ethnology, economics and many more. It covers more than 4,000 journals from 1984 to present. The database includes a current file of the past nine to 10 years of data, with an optional backfile available for an additional one-time fee.

SilverPlatter Discounts
SilverPlatter Information is offering a multiyear discount on CABCD, EconLit and the Philosopher's Index when two- and three-year subscriptions are purchased. The first year is full price, but users receive 5 percent off the year-one price in the second year and 10 percent off the year-one price in the third year.

In addition, schools and colleges with full-time enrollment of 3,000 or less will receive a special discount on EconLit if they sign up by December 31. These smaller institutions pay $1,735 for up to four users and $2,000 for five or more users.

Effective September 1, the backfile fee for ATLA was reduced to $500. This fee is payable directly to ATLA.

SilverPlatter Price and Product Updates
Congressional Quarterly Researcher will no longer be available through SilverPlatter. Effective December 15, no new or renewal orders will be accepted. Orders prior to this date will be fulfilled through December 15, 2001, or the expiration date, whichever is first. Congressional Quarterly will be the sole source for this database.

A 5 percent to 10 percent price increase is planned for Bowker starting January 1, 2001, for new subscriptions and on April 1, 2001, for renewal subscriptions.

Elsevier database will see a price increase of 7 percent in 2001. The effective dates are January 1, 2001, for new subscriptions; March 1, 2001, for renewal subscriptions.

CIS/Lexis-Nexis Accepting IP Updates Via E-mail
CIS/Lexis-Nexis now allows any library that needs to change or update its IP addresses to simply submit the changes in an e-mail. Libraries no longer need their account number to make these changes. Send IP address changes only to support.cis@lexis-nexis.com. This e-mail address is to be used for changes to IP addresses only. Access problems should continue to be called into the LEXIS-NEXIS Customer Support group at (800) 897-3419, and libraries will still need to have their account numbers available.

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