The following item was distributed in the recent CHEST Software Messenger
but may be of interest to Libraries. Apologies if you receive this more
than once.
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H The CHEST SOFTWARE MESSENGER No. 158 H
E - bringing you news, updates & other snippets - E
S w/e 11th February 2000 URL: http://www.chest.ac.uk S
T SOFTWARE NEWS * CHEST SOFTWARE NEWS * CHEST SOFTWARE NEWS * CHEST
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c. Bekon Idealist Agreement
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CHEST is pleased to announce that it has reached agreement with Bekon
Marketing Ltd for it's free form, cross referencing flexible database
system - Idealist.
Designed with a bibliographic and archival applications in mind,
Idealist allows you to enter large amounts of information, in any
format you like; you can even change the way you enter the information
from one record to the next. Idealist automatically indexes everything
you enter, except for certain words. (e.g. as, and, not, the etc).
Both site licences costing between £750 - £2,150 pa depending on
commitment period and size of Institution, and concurrent volume
licences, e.g. 50 users for £800, are available.
For full details of this Agreement and how to participate see
http://www.chest.ac.uk/software/idealist/
or contact Johanna Baynton <[log in to unmask]>
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