Further to last week's announcement of the new EDINA CAB Abstracts service, we are delighted to be able to offer a free trial to UK higher education until 31st January '99. To try it out go to http://edina.ed.ac.uk/cab/ The annual licence fee for CAB Abstracts via EDINA will be: Agricultural College or Institution with Agricultural Faculty: Data fee for 8 concurrent users stlg 4,000 Service fee stlg 600 Total stlg 4,600 Other HE Institutions Data fee for 4 concurrent users stlg 2,000 Service fee stlg 600 Total stlg 2,600 VAT will be added to these fees. The agreement covers the period from 1 January 1999 until 31 December 2001. Further details are available at http://edina.ed.ac.uk/cab/ > From January 1999 EDINA will provide online access to CAB Abstracts > for higher education institutions throughout the UK and Ireland. The > service will be offered in conjunction with Ovid Technologies. > > Compiled by CAB International, CAB Abstracts covers the significant > research and development literature in the fields of agriculture, > forestry, aspects of human health, human nutrition, animal health and > the management and conservation of natural resources. The familiar > interface from Ovid allows users to search over a wide range of > fields, browse fields, map to a list of subject headings, view all > subject headings containing a specific term, and much more. > > Further details about the new service and a free trial are available > now: see http://edina.ed.ac.uk/cab/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EDINA URL: http://edina.ed.ac.uk Edinburgh University Data Library Tel: 0131 650 3302 Main Library Building, George Square Fax: 0131 650 3308 Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Email: [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%