GENERAL: FirstSearch and EPIC Online Databases!

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL:
Tam Dalrymple (614) 761-5054
Nita Dean (614) 761-5002

ART INDEX AND ARTS & HUMANITIES SEARCH NOW ON FIRSTSEARCH AND EPIC

DUBLIN, Ohio, Feb. 17, 1993--Students and scholars in the arts and
humanities now have two of their most valuable resources available for online
searching on OCLC's FirstSearch Catalog and EPIC service.
Art Index, the H. W. Wilson database of 200 leading art publications from
around the world, and Arts & Humanities Search, the online equivalent of the
Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index, have
recently been added to FirstSearch and EPIC.
"Both FirstSearch and EPIC have become mainstays for researchers working in
humanities and arts fields," said Tam Dalrymple, OCLC Reference Services. "The
addition of these two databases enriches both services. Having the databases
on FirstSearch, in particular, brings the 'high-tech' power of online searching
directly to a new group of scholars."
The online version of Art Index provides convenient and detailed access to
major periodicals, yearbooks, museum publications, bibliographies, and reviews
in various languages dating from September 1984 to the present. It offers an
international perspective on the arts, ranging from archeology, architecture,
art history, computer graphics, crafts, industrial design, interior design, and
photography to sculpture, television, textiles, and video. It also serves as a
complete record of reproductions of works of art that appear in the
publications indexed. It is updated monthly.
Arts & Humanities Search indexes articles from over 1,100 of the world's
leading arts and humanities journals and includes relevant articles from some
5,000 journals in the physical and social sciences. Its online coverage goes
from 1980 to the present. It is updated weekly.
Both FirstSearch and EPIC display the three-character OCLC symbols for the
libraries that own the publications cited in each entry. The online citations
in both Art Index and Arts & Humanities Search have been linked to serials
records that have been authenticated by CONSER participants. The CONSER
program includes 19 OCLC member libraries, the Library of Congress, and the
National Library of Canada. The 500,000 authoritative CONSER records represent
the most widely held titles among libraries.
The FirstSearch Catalog is designed for library patrons, with an end-user
interface that allows patrons to move easily through the online search process
in just a few simple steps, without training or online searching experience.
EPIC, a full-featured online reference system that provides subject access,
and keyword and Boolean searching to a variety of databases, is used mostly by
librarians and experienced searchers.
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