Dialog's on-line network will be offering four new bibliographic databases by early Spring. Two of the databases are aimed at microcomputer owners: International Software Directory and Microcomputer Index. The former parallels Imprint Editions' International Microcomputer Software Directory and covers commercially available software for all types of microcomputers. The initial database will contain over 5,000 records and will be updated monthly. It will cost $60 per connect-hour to search. The on-line version of Microcomputer Index indexes over 21 microcomputer journals covering articles, reviews, applications and new products. The database, to be updated quarterly, will begin with 6,000 records from 1960 to the present. The cost for searching Microcomputer Index will be $45 per connect-hour.
The on-line version of the Journal of Economic Literature will be mounted with 100,000 records covering journal articles, book reviews, and articles from collected works from 1969 to the present. Produced by the American Economic Association, the database will carry a searching fee of $75 per connect-hour.
Catfax: the Directory of Mail Order Catalogs is the on-line version of Grey House Publishing Inc.'s Directory of Mail Order Catalogs. It lists catalogs for products such as boating equipment, bookbinding supplies, garden tools, camping foods, etc. Connect-hour charges for this file will be $85. Each of the new databases carries a charge of $.l5 per record for off-line printing. [Contact: Dialog Information Services, Inc., 3460 Hillview Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304. 800-227-1927].
