DataTimes to be available on FirstSearch.DUBLIN, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 29, 1996--A database of U.S. and international newspapers will soon join the increasing number of databases available on the OCLC OCLC - Online Computer Library Center FirstSearch service. DataTimes will produce the index of some 70 U.S. and 15 international newspapers. The ASCII ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, a few symbols, and control characters. Originally designed for teletype operations, it has found wide application in computers. full text of articles will be available for delivery to users' screens or e-mail accounts via the Internet. "We've been collecting business information from publishers and broadcasters around the world for 15 years," said John M. Paschal, president, DataTimes Information Partnerships Division. "This alliance with OCLC represents a new strategic thrust -- partnering with others to deliver information to users via many methods. FirstSearch is a clear leader among library online information services See Information Systems. , and we expect great things from our partnership." "ASCII full-text journal information has been one of the most popular features on FirstSearch. Our partnership with DataTimes will add almost 100 newspapers to FirstSearch, all with full text available online from a first-class database publisher," said Rick Noble, vice president, reference services, OCLC. "This relationship continues our progress toward providing information when and where it is needed and at an affordable cost." Among the newspapers for which DataTimes provides indexes and full-text articles are the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Christian Science Christian Science, religion founded upon principles of divine healing and laws expressed in the acts and sayings of Jesus, as discovered and set forth by Mary Baker Eddy and practiced by the Church of Christ, Scientist. Monitor, Commerce Business Daily, Detroit News, Idaho Statesman The Idaho Statesman is a U.S. daily newspaper serving the Boise, Idaho metropolitan area. The paper has a circulation of 65,000 daily, 87,640 Sunday, and employs about 450 people. It is owned by The McClatchy Company. , Mobile Press Register, Newsday, Rocky Mountain News The Rocky Mountain News is a daily morning tabloid-format newspaper published in Denver, Colorado. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. (Despite Scripps still running the paper, it's the only newspaper in the Scripps family not to have the corporate lighthouse logo on , San Antonio San Antonio (săn ăntō`nēō, əntōn`), city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837. Express News, San Francisco Chronicle The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young.[2] The paper grew along with San Francisco to become the largest circulation newspaper on the West Coast of the , Times Picayune Picayune (pĭkəy  n`), city (1990 pop. 10,633), Pearl River co., S Miss., near the Pearl River and the La. line; inc. 1904. , Washington Times, Budapest Sun, China Daily, Jerusalem Post, Toronto Star The Toronto Star is Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, though its print edition is distributed almost entirely within Ontario. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., a division of Star Media Group, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation. , Prague Post and Singapore Press. The DataTimes database on FirstSearch will be available by mid-1996. DataTimes Corp., founded in 1981, is a leading provider of business information services. Its online networks, once known as the home for "America's Newspapers Online," have grown into one of the world's most comprehensive electronic databases of business news and information. DataTimes is based in Oklahoma City. The FirstSearch service is designed for people who use libraries, with an end-user interface that allows users to move easily through the online search process in just a few simple steps, without training or online searching experience. With some 60 databases, full text and, coming soon, online document image delivery, FirstSearch is one of the fastest growing end-user services in the library community. OCLC will soon offer a World Wide Web interface to FirstSearch. OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit computer library service and research organization whose computer network and services link more than 21,000 libraries in 63 countries and territories. The OCLC home page is located at http://www.oclc.org on the World Wide Web. NOTE: There should be two slashes in the World Wide Web addresses listed in this press release. There should also be an "at" sign in the e-mail addresses listed in this press release. These symbols may not print properly on some computer systems. CONTACT: OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc., Dublin Tam Dalrymple, 614/761-5054 e-mail: tam_dalrymple@oclc.org Nita Dean, 614/761-5002 e-mail: nita_dean@oclc.org or DataTimes John Buckman, 412/471-6348 e-mail: jbuckman@datatimes.com |
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