A c t i o n f o r L i b r a r i e s — M a y 2 0 0 3

In Reference

Edited by Brandie Baumann

BCR Database Renewal Deadlines Approaching
Many of BCR's reference database products are coming up for renewal in May. Deadlines for the following products are:

Britannica Online Products — May 31, 2003, for all new and renewing subscribers. The subscription year is June 1 through May 31. All users must complete a new subscription form. Go to www.bcr.org/reference/Britannica/Britannica-Menu.html. Contact BCR's Laura Chittivej(lchittiv@bcr.org) for additional information.
LexisNexis Products — May 15, 2003, for all new and renewing users. All BCR LexisNexis subscriptions expire concurrently on June 30, 2003. Any orders received between May 16 and June 15 will have a start date of August 1. Libraries must opt-in to renew their access. Go to www.bcr.org/reference/CIS/CIS-menu.html and complete the Web order form. Contact Karen Graham (kgraham@bcr.org) for more information.
McGraw-Hill AccessScience — May 15, 2003, for all new and renewing users. All subscriptions expire concurrently on June 30, 2003. Libraries must opt-in to renew their access. Go to www.bcr.org/reference/Mcgraw/McGraw-Form.html and complete the Web order form. Contact Karen Graham for more information (kgraham@bcr.org).

BCR Offers Discount on Ovid IPSA Database
Ovid and BCR are offering new users a special 15 percent discount on their first-year subscription to Ovid's International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA) database, available on the SilverPlatter platform. Published by the International Political Science Association, this valuable resource offers global coverage and crucial political topics, theories and histories essential to today's political researchers and policy makers. Contact Karen Graham at BCR (kgraham@bcr.org) for pricing and to sign up for a free 30-day trial. This offer ends July 31.

Grove Jazz Now Available Online
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, has been integrated into The Grove Dictionary of Music Online. Subscribers to the Grove Dictionary of Music Online now have access to the largest, most comprehensive and accurate reference work on jazz ever published.

A subscription to the New Grove Dictionary of Music Online (TNGII) now includes:

More than 7,500 articles written by hundreds of the world's leading jazz authorities.
Discographies in most of the Jazz biographical articles.

The ability to identify Jazz articles by the purple detailing on the article view page as well as search results that are identified with a Jazz icon (e.g., a search for Dizzy Gillespie will bring up two results, one from TNGII and one from Jazz, identified by a purple icon).
Thousands of biographies, including 1,500 on musicians who came to prominence in the '80s and '90s.
Comprehensive lists of venues and festivals worldwide.

For further information on this update and to start exploring this new content, go to www.grovemusic.com. For subscription questions for this product, contact BCR's Laura Chittivej (lchittiv@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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