Other Online Databases & DB Services

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DATABASES
INGENTA/UNCOVER	ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASSOCIATIONS
ELECTRIC LIBRARY ELIBRARY (HOME-ORIENTED)	BOOKS IN PRINT
EC NEXT	FACTIVA (DOW-JONES & REUTERS)
NL RESEARCH (WEB & LICENSED CONTENT)	.

EXAMPLE DATABASE UTILITIES
OVID	H.W. WILSON
FIRSTSEARCH (OCLC)	.

Overview

• There are an ever-greater number of individual database products that are available directly online.
  • The book, Gale Directory of Databases and Information Companies from Gale Research (http://www.gale.com/), contains information on about 6000 databases available through more than 800 online services worldwide plus information on information on 2,900 databases available on CD-ROM, diskette, magnetic tape, hand-held devices, and through batch access.
  • Other individuals and organizations have estimated as many as 20,000-plus databases online.
  • The proliferation of the Web and easy-to-mount databases has resulting in numerous additional databased being created. These include search engines such as Google, product databases such as Amazon's books database, genealogy databases, personal databases, and many, many more.
• The same directory shows that there are as many as 5000 organizations, systems, and services involved in the production and distribution of information in electronic form. Note that not all of these are "Database Utilities."

Markets

• The primary markets for database products are:
  • Corporate Libraries
  • Public Libraries
  • Academic Libraries
  • Government Agencies
  • Information Brokers and other Research Companies
  • Not-for-Profit Organizations
  • Individuals

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