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Subject:Access to 14,000 Journals From:"Lawrenson, Steve" <steve -dot- lawrenson -at- CANADA -dot- CDEV -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:42:00 EST
For all those burning research questions you didn't have answers to but
wished you did, check this URL site (http://www.nrc.ca/cisti/). I do believe
this service (SwetScan) is brand new (don't flame me if isn't).
Love to hear from anyone with similar and useful URLs for Tech Writers.
Steve Lawrenson
Supervisor-Technical Documentation
Computing Devices Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
steve -dot- lawrenson -at- gpo -dot- canada -dot- cdev -dot- com
SwetScan, a table of contents on the Web, searches through more than 14,000
journals worldwide.
Developed by the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
(CISTI), a division of National Research Council Canada, SwetScan covers
journals mainly in the areas of social sciences, technology and business.
The Web site is updated weekly and has a French an English interface. Users
can search the table of contents to monitor a topic, find an article or
discover new journal title, using the Web's point-and-click technology.
The complete text of any of the articles can be ordered through the SwetScan
service and delivered by fax and as an electronic image within a couple of
days.
A free one-month trial s available by contacting Christine Midwinter at 1-800-
668-1222.
