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By Brandie Baumann

BCR Offers Nature Online Titles at a Discount
Nature Online, a weekly science-oriented publication, is available at a discount through BCR. The subscription year begins January 1, and subscribers may combine any of the available titles into a subscription package that suits their needs. In addition to the weekly Nature, the Nature Research and Review Journals Online also are now available through BCR at a substantial discount.

Complete pricing information for academic, corporate, government and research libraries is available on BCR's Web site (www.bcr.org). An online subscription order form can be found at www.bcr.org/reference/Nature/. Contact Karen Graham (kgraham@bcr.org) or Rosario Garza (rgarza@bcr.org) or phone them at (800) 397-1552.

OCLC FirstSearch ECO Enhancements
Thirty- five new journals from four publishers have been added to the OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online service. The new journals include 25 titles from Urban & Fischer, a scientific, medical and technical publisher in Germany that is part of the Nature Publishing Group. This brings the online total to 4,311 journals from 70 publishers. For questions or to subscribe, contact Karen Graham (kgraham@bcr.org). A list of the new titles is available at www.oclc.org/firstsearch/announcements/ecoadd_20021113.htm.

LexisNexis Academic Resources Available
Current subscribers to the LexisNexis Academic suite have a variety of information resources available to assist in learning about product changes and to better use the database services.

LexisNexis Academic suite users can find answers to questions regarding the product's redesign at www.lexisnexis.com/academic/1univ/rifaq.htm. To help better understand the content and functionality of the service, subscribers can log on to www.lexisnexis.com/academic/1univ/acad/SubscriberResources.htm for informational materials.

For key updates about the Academic suite, including content updates, an electronic newsletter is available from LexisNexis, as well as a listserv for electronic products. Although the listserv will provide changes and updates periodically, the newsletter will help keep users informed about product content changes on a more regular basis and will provide greater detail. To sign up for the newsletter and/or listserv, please visit www.lexisnexis.com/academic/contacts/req.htm. Contact Karen Graham at BCR (kgraham@bcr.org) with questions or for more information.

Ovid Technologies News
Ovid is offering a 20 percent discount on RILM Abstracts of Music Literature for orders placed through January 31, 2003. New customers who have never before subscribed to the electronic version of this database are eligible.

The Philosopher's Index now contains close to 27,000 book review citations with the addition of Retrospective and Current Book Review Citations to the database. The book review citations cover journals from 1991 to present and include a new Books Review Index to assist users in searching the citations by author name.

Mechanical Engineering Abstracts (ISMEC) users should have received notice of the database's retirement and final update. For additional information on this database, along with questions or to subscribe to any of the above-referenced Ovid products, please contact Karen Graham at BCR (kgraham@bcr.org).

For questions or to subscribe to any reference database, contact BCR's Rosario Garza (rgarza@bcr.org), Karen Graham (kgraham@bcr.org) or Laura Chittivej (lchittiv@bcr.org).

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