GUIDE FOR USERS OF OCLC'S FIRST SEARCH DATABASES

If you have a GIAL Library card and access to the Internet, you are entitled to unlimited use of an electronic reference service to which the Library has subscribed. This service is known as First Search: a world of information online.

First Search is available over the Internet and is located at the following URL: http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org

There are currently 10 bibliographic databases that can be searched:

ERIC - contains annotated references to non-journal material issued in the monthly Resources in Education and to journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education. Language and linguistics is one of the subjects covered. The dates covered are from 1966 to date.

WORLD CAT - a database of over 52,000,000 books (primarily) held by libraries around the world. The dates covered are from 1000 BC to the present.

ARTICLE FIRST - index of articles from the contents pages of over 12,000 journals. There are over 12.7 million records. The dates covered are from 1990 to the present.

ELECTRONIC COLLECTIONS ONLINE (ECO) - 4600 scholarly electronic journals are indexed, with some full-text titles. The dates covered are from 1995 to the present.

PAPERS FIRST - index of over 2,380,000 papers presented at conferences worldwide. The dates covered are from 1993 to the present.

PROCEEDINGS FIRST - an index of worldwide conference proceedings, with over 74,000 records. The dates covered are from 1993 to the present.

The other databases are World Almanacs, GPO (government resources), Medline (medical resources), and Union List (periodicals held by member libraries).

IN ORDER TO RECEIVE THE AUTHORIZATION AND PASSWORD FOR THE USE OF FIRST SEARCH, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO SIGN BELOW THAT YOU UNDERSTAND AND WILL NOT VIOLATE THE RULES OF OUR LICENSE FOR FIRST SEARCH.

1) This authorization is for your personal use as a GIAL Library card holder.

2) The authorization number and the password are not to be given to any other individual, organization, or business concern.

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