Gale & Dialog combine to offer new info site for libraries.The Thomson Corp. (Stamford, CT), through Gale (Farmington Hill, MI), its reseaerch and reference publisher for libraries, and Dialog (Cary, NC), its provider of online-based information services See Information Systems. , has launched Reference Link, an online information gateway designed for public and educational libraries. Annual subscriptions and site licenses are available. The first in a line of planned online products and services serving academic and public libraries worldwide, the new service is described as a "multidisciplinary database" containing medical, reference, health, science, technical and regulatory sources, including such assets as The New England Journal of Medicine The New England Journal of Medicine (New Engl J Med or NEJM) is an English-language peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It is one of the most popular and widely-read peer-reviewed general medical journals in the world. , Consumer Reports, Medline, GeoRef, and articles from more than 1500 newspapers. Libraries may subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; only the newspaper database, which provides access to news content, or in combination with a full ReferenceLink subscription. Content in ReferenceLink was chosen to complement Galets InfoTrac periodical periodical, a publication that is issued regularly. It is distinguished from the newspaper in format in that its pages are smaller and are usually bound, and it is published at weekly, monthly, quarterly, or other intervals, rather than daily. database, extending its content, especially content from Canada, Asia Pacific and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. . Also, the new service is a replacment for Dialog's CARL information service. In related news, Gale has released the names of the 36 books that will launch its ebook alliance with netLibrary (Boulder, CO). Including titles from Charles Scribner's Sons Charles Scribner's Sons is a publisher that was founded in 1846 at the Brick Church Chapel on New York's Park Row. The firm published Scribner's Magazine for many years. Scribner's is well known for publishing Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert A. , Gale, Macmillan Reference USA and St. James Press, the titles cover a variety of topics and include directories and references for the healthcare, animal sciences, biology, computer science, and economics fields, among others. |
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