[Moderator's note: the following is forwarded from the NewJournals list. There
is open access to the online serials, including many academic social science
journals, until the end of October.]

Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 15:26:30 +0100
From: Annette.Lafford[atx]niss.ac.uk (Annette Lafford)
To: niss-news[atx]mailbase.ac.uk, lis-link[atx]mailbase.ac.uk
Subject: EBSCO Evaluation Service

NISS EBSCO Service
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CHEST and NISS are pleased to announce the start of the Evaluation Service for EBSCO's MasterFILE and its sub-set, World Magazine Bank, on Monday 2 October 1995.

MasterFILE and World Magazine Bank provide access to about 3000 periodicals and journals, many of them in full text, the rest as abstracts. Below are just a few of the full text titles:-

Medicine and Health Science Arts and Humanities
--------------------------- -------------------
* ASHA * American Heritage
* British Journal of * American History Illustrated
Neurosurgery * American Poetry Review
* Journal of Speech & Hearing * American Studies
Research International
* Journal of the National * History Today
Cancer Institute * Orbis
* Lancet * Twentieth Century Literature
* New England Journal of * World Literature Today
Medicine
Education
Business and Economics ---------
---------------------- * Chronicle of Higher
* Administrative Science Education
Quarterly * Education
* American Economic Review * Education Digest
* Economist * European Education
* Forbes * Journal of Teacher Education
* Fortune * Oxford Review of Education
* Journal of Consumer Affairs
* Monthly Labor Review General and Reference
* Policy Review ---------------------
* American Libraries
Engineering and Technology * American Scholar
-------------------------- * Chicago Review
* Bulletin of the Atomic * Library Journal
Scientists * New Republic
* Chemical Week * Smithsonian
* Electronics Now
* Technology Review Life Sciences
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General Science/Earth Sciences * International Wildlife
------------------------------ * Journal of Biological * Astronomy Education
* Compute! * Mankind Quarterly
* Discover
* Geographical Magazine Social Science
* Popular Science --------------
* School Science and * Aging
Mathematics * Annals of the American
Academy of Political & Social
Public Affairs and Law Science
---------------------- * Canadian Review of Sociology
* Comparative Political & Anthropology
Studies * Environment & Behavior
* FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin * Journal of Social Psychology * Foreign Policy *
Social Science Journal
* Human Rights: Journal of the
Section of Individual Rights
and Responsibilities
* New York Times
* World Affairs

CHEST has negotiated an Agreement with EBSCO for these datasets, with access via
the NISS information gateway.

Full details of the Agreement will shortly be sent to CHEST Site Contacts. All
details, including the Implementation Plan for the service, may be found at URL:

http://www.niss.ac.uk/chest/datasets/ebsco/contents.html

The Evaluation Service will run from 2 to 31 October with open access. After
this date the service will be by subscription only. Any information concerning
the service, including periods of non-service due to the installation of new
hardware and disruption because of building contractors working in the building
where NISS is situated, will be announced on the chest-ebsco@mailbase.ac.uk
mailing list.

If you would like to try the service please connect to URL:

http://www.niss.ac.uk/ebsco/

Note: The URL will change at the end of October for the subscription service.