1. Access 1998 Chadwyck-Healey, Inc. Stephen Rhind-Tutt, President October, 1998

2. Publisher’s perspective Role of librarians is increasingly important Growth in electronic resources makes it so Editorial - choosing the best quality material “Human” Indexing 2 Examples: Literature Online Digital National Security Archive

3. Master Index Literary Databases Dictionaries Journals Web Index Bibliographies Reference 350,000 Texts 23,000 Web Pages 7,000 Authors 12,000 Volumes 30 Databases 3 Bibliographies 1 Dictionary 1 Encyclopedias 1.3 million references What is it ?

4. New this year alone... Early American Fiction 1790-1851 1/99 20th Century African American Poetry10/98 19th Century Fiction - Available 20th Century American Poetry - Available Early American Drama 1714-1900 5/99 Literary Theory 5/99 Author Archive: W.B. Yeats Author Archive: Emily Dickinson ABELL - 1920-1996 - Available Literary Journals Full-Text - 4/99

5. Get me the primary works of all authors in English Literature... “I don’t care who publishes them, but they must be high quality.” “I don’t want to wade through lots of screens” “I’d like them in the same format” and... “I don’t want to pay a lot for them” Problem A:

6. Basic Bibliography to be created for all major works Underway... Controlled vocabularies defined and applied 10,000 terms... Each work needs to be dated, indexed 350,000 texts so far…20,000 on the Web Links to proprietary sites, without no business arrangement License to Gale’s Biography site agreed... Solution A:

7. Problem B:

8. “How common are metaphors of color in Wallace Stevens’ Poetry - as in The Man with the Blue Guitar ?” “Was he the first to use this metaphor ?” “Did others use the metaphor after him ?” “Are metaphors of color more frequent in African American verse ?” and... “I don’t want to pay a lot to find out” Problem B:

9. Analyze Primary Works Word frequency Phrase and linguistic analysis Link author details to primary texts Search by date of birth, death, birthplace, gender, ethnicity Search by word or phrase Or by any combination Solution B:

10. Pricing... Lion - Poetry Collection US $1,000 - US $8,800 Lion - Complete US $4,000 - US $18,000 Price increases kept to inflation Size of file growing by 50,000 texts per year Discounts for purchases

12. Date Document Type Destination Signatory Addressee Corporate Origin Multiple subject headings Index phrases Individuals named Location of original Introductions Biographies Glossary Chronology Photographs Links

13. 12 Major collections of declassified primary documents 300,000 documents in all “A state-of-the-art index to history” Washington Journalism Review Exciting, challenging new perspectives Two new collections added per year $4,200 per collection purchase $7,500 annual subscription to all collections $700 single collection annual subscription Discounts for lower book budgets

14. Afghanistan 1973-1990 The Berlin Crisis 1958-1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 El Salvador 1977-1984 Iran 1977-1980 The Iran Contra Affair Nicaragua 1978-1990 The Philippines, 1965-1986 South Africa, 1962-1989 The U.S. Intelligence Community 1947-1989 Military Uses of Space, 1945-1991 Nuclear Non-Proliferation, 1945-1990 12 Major Collections

15. Integrated Humanities Resources... Function specific indexing, manually created with software assistance Applied to all relevant, quality resources CH texts Texts freely available on the Web Proprietary texts offered by other vendors The advantage of stasis !

16. Historical Newspapers Online 3 Major Newspaper Indexes Official Index to the London Times - 1906-1980 Palmer’s Index to the London Times - 1795-1905 The Historical Index to the New York Times - 1851-1920 Single source, authoritative records of history Can be used as indexes for other papers Breadth of coverage Eliminate difficulties of paper searching Almost 900 uncumulated volumes can be searched in seconds 12.5 million records in Official Index to Times alone Available on Magnetic tape or on the Web and…. Palmer’s Full Image- 1795-1870