Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!shelby!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!uflorida!travis!tom From: tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Compu$erve, Prodigy, GEnie, etc. Message-ID: Date: 18 Feb 91 13:15:06 GMT References: <1991Feb15.204716.2376@looking.on.ca> Sender: news@travis.csd.harris.com Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division Lines: 27 In-reply-to: brad@looking.on.ca's message of 15 Feb 91 20:47:16 GMT Here is some info on one service Brad did not mention: Dialog is not in the same category as GEnie et. al., but it is the only online service (aside from usenet, if you can call it a service :-) I have ever had any use for. It is now a Knight-Ridder company (used to be Lockheed I think), but what it offers is online access to what amounts to a major reference library. Not too much stuff is available in full text, but abstracts of practically every technical article in any field you care to name are available (and you can order full text copies of articles). They also operate a less powerful (but cheaper) service designed for individual use called Knowledge Index. They are kind of expensive, but considering the fact that you can usually do in 20 minutes on Dialog what it would take you a week to do in a good library (assumuing you could find a good library), I consider it a bargin. (Of course, I hear that more and more libraries are getting computerized these days, so the capabilities may start to merge). -- ====================================================================== domain: tahorsley@csd.harris.com USMail: Tom Horsley uucp: ...!uunet!hcx1!tahorsley 511 Kingbird Circle Delray Beach, FL 33444 +==== Censorship is the only form of Obscenity ======================+ | (Wait, I forgot government tobacco subsidies...) | +====================================================================+