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

BRITISH LIBRARY DOCUMENT SUPPLY CENTRE
NOW A DOCUMENT SUPPLIER ON THE FIRSTSEARCH CATALOG

DUBLIN, Ohio, Feb. 4, 1994--The British Library Document Supply
Centre is now a document supplier on The FirstSearch Catalog,
making some 30,000 serials available to users throughout the
world.

Documents in the ArticleFirst and Arts & Humanities Search
databases may be ordered online through The FirstSearch Catalog,
OCLC's online reference service accessible to users worldwide 23
hours a day, six days a week, and 20 hours on Sunday. The
British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC) dispatches 90
percent of all orders no later than 48 hours after requests are
received.

The BLDSC will be a document supplier for other databases in The
FirstSearch Catalog later this year.

Articles supplied by the BLDSC will cost $22.50 for delivery by
fax, and $12.50 for delivery by mail. Document delivery costs
are the same for all U.S. and international users. Orders can be
placed by using credit card options available through
FirstSearch.

"The British Library can supply documents for more than 80
percent of the titles represented in ArticleFirst," said Phyllis
B. Spies, vice president, OCLC marketing and sales. "This
coverage increases the effectiveness of The FirstSearch Catalog
to libraries and their users worldwide."

"The British Library has been supplying documents to libraries
through the OCLC ILL system for many years, and we are delighted
to be opening up access to users of FirstSearch," said Malcolm
Smith, BLDSC deputy director.

Later this year, the BLDSC will supply documents through
FirstSearch from

PapersFirst, one of two new databases based on the British
Library's Inside Conferences database to be available on
FirstSearch and the EPIC service.

PapersFirst will be an index to individual papers presented at
conferences, symposia, and professional meetings worldwide.
ProceedingsFirst will contain tables-of-contents records listing
papers presented at each conference.

"Our collaboration with OCLC on ProceedingsFirst and PapersFirst
will give FirstSearch users vastly improved access to a unique
resource of key conference papers in all subject areas," said Mr.
Smith.

OCLC will also add 4,000 serials titles from the British
Library's Inside Information database to the ArticleFirst and
ContentsFirst databases by March 1994.

The British Library Document Supply Centre holds the largest
literature collection in the world dedicated solely to document
delivery. Based in Boston Spa, England, the British Library
Document Supply Centre now has a U.S. Service Centre in Boston,
Mass.

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.

OCLC is a nonprofit computer library service and research
organization whose computer network and services link more than
17,000 libraries in 52 countries and territories.
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