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Tjhe report tabulates tor several library locations in

the Natioiial Capital area, those data bases wh'ich are

accessible and a short description of their contents.

SOMMATRE 0.

Pour les quelques services libraires clans

l'agglom~ration de la (apitale nationaie, le rapport

catalogue ces bases de donn~es qui sont accessibles et,

aussi, une courte description de leur. contents.

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ACKNOWL EDG EMENTC

In the assemblying of. material, the kind assistance

of he following is gjratefully acknowledged:

a. Mrs. Christa Collin, ORAE Library

b. Mr. Paul Caldwell, USIS

C. Mr. John Flood, De~partment of External Aftairs

a. Ms. Susan lBlevins, NL)HQ Library Jb

e. Ms. Redo Widstrand, Carleton University

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A TABULATIUN OF DATA BASES:

ACCESS AND CONTENT

INTRODUCTION

The paper is a tabulation of data bases that a

researcher in the National Capital Area rQight call upon and

where they might be found.

For oints of access, both inside and outside ot the

Department f ational Detence, the reader should not make

any assumptjofls rerlarding cost of seirch, general

accessibiliqy, timeliness of response or the quality of the p

resulting m~terial.

AIM/

The'aim of this paper is to assemble information

describing data bases and to give the location of access to

these resources.

SCOPE

IL-With the fantastic gjrowth r't inf -rmnation, it is

possible 6o spend an enoqmrous amnount ..f time and eftort just

on the tabulation osourC' n without anyt.t.ing more than a

Guperticial contact with the recordedi information.

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Since this paper is in support of the wo~k program of

*ORAE, quite nat~irally then, the set of -locations that have

been included are those which would be considered within

easy access by the members of D) Strat A and USPP.

For the set of sources, those data basL-s which are

available at the various locations have been included.

only unclassified data bases are considered.

Clearly' the scope ot this paper is defined only for

the time of writin,., a snapshot. Because of the continuing

*production of infcrmation, data bases will generally

continue to grow although some may fail tor economic

reasons. This scope will become outdated for se'veral

* reasons including the following obvious onei:

a. for a particular location, a new data base is

added;

b. for an existingr data base, its range of interest

and/or publicati.oims consulted expands;

c. f or an mimbre I a sys te (Vg Ul I.LOG)) , another data

basv is adned.

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For the purposes of this paper, the term aata base is

tak n in a broad sense, including not only a collection of

int rmat ion on a specific topic but also a system~ which

se es as an umbrella for several specific collections.

TAB3ULATION

The set Of locations, after consultation, was taken

s the following.;

a. ORAE Library

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C. DHQ Library

d- Dept of External Aftairs Library

e. Carleton University, Norman Patterson School of

Internatioral Aftairs, Resource Centre.

Each location will be taken in turn and given a

listing of its major datai bases. These data bases ar" Lnose

which appear important to- the wide-ranging ,;tuaiL-s of D)

*Strat A and which ac- ofter. electronically svarchable. For

each data base, th reader is referred co a speciic annex

wherein a short description of the data bast is provite.

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LIST OF LOCATIONS

ORAE LIBRARY has DIALOG which is describea at Annex

A.

DSIS.(Defence Scientific Information Services) has

the following available:

a. DIALOG.(see Annex A)

I.AN/OLE (see Aainex B) p

C. Q-/SE~ARCH (see Annex C)

d. IRBIT (see Annex D)

e. )ROLS (see Annex E)

f. USIS Retro (see Annex F)

g. Info GLOBE (see Annex G)

h. ;NYTIS Timies Information Servicel'Intorrnatic.n Bank

(see Annex H)

J.NEXIS (see Annex J)

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NDHQ Library has the following available:.4

a. DIALOG (see iinnex A)

b. CAN/OL& (see Annex B)

The Department of External Affairs Library has the

following available:

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a. CANSIM (see Annex K)

b. QL!SEARCH (see Annex C)

C. INFO GLOBE (see Annex G)

d. NYTIS, NY Times Information Setvice/Informnatiofl

dank (see Annex H)

e. DMS/ONLINE (see Annex L)

Sf. UJRI International Data Banks (Annex %1)

g. DIALOG (see Annex A)

h. Dow Jone'S News!RETKIEVAL 'see Annex N)

,'.CAN/OLE (see Annex 8)

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k. ORBIT (see Annex D)

1. International Trade Data Bank (Annex P)

m. Canada's Bilateral Relatins: Some Key Statistics

(Annex Q)

n. (under development) Fact Sheets for Selected

Countries.

At the Norman Patterson School of International

Affairs, Carleton University, the tollowing are Available:

a. DIALOG (see Annex A)

b. (near future) the School's holdings will be

online with a major shift in search strategy from

key words in context (titles) to a controllea

vocabulary/thesaurus.

C. through the Main L.ibrary, involving

i CATSUP (Catalog System Update Projrami which

will place the complete holdings at Cdrltton '

University online.

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ii, 1I4LT (to be availaule soon) which~ will allow

easy access to nmarsy data bases (e'j. I)IALOG,

ORBIT, Info CLOBE etc.)

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OTHER REFERENCES 0

With growth of information, it is not surprisin that

i is now neLessary to have indexes to inoexes of

intormation. For those who feel the Annexes hervwit. are too

ft'w or incomplete, the following short list ot expanding

references is given:S

a. Computer-readible Databases: A Directory and

Data Sourcebrok, (Washiniton, D.C.: Americanr

Society for Information Science).

b. MJ Brown and JL Hall, Online 8iW.~ojrahic Data

Bases: An International. Directory, Second

Edition, (Gale Research Co., 1481).

C. HC Campbell, The EsLial Data Base Directory: A

Guide to Current Canadian Information Containec

in National and international atd Bases and Data

Banks, (Toronto: Espial Pr')ductions, 19d1).

d. VS Sessions, Directory of Data Bases in the

Social and Behnvioural Sciences, (New Y,-,rK:

Science Associates/International and the City

University of New York, 1974).

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e. COIN: A Directory of Computerized information in

Canada, (Edmonton: Alberta Information Retrieval

Association, 1982).

f. RN Cuadra, DM Abels and J wanger (editors and

compilers), Directory of Online Data Bases (Vol. "

* ~, no 1), (Santa Monica, Calit.: Cuadra

~Associates Inc., Fall 1982).

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ANNEX A

DIALOG

1. DIALOG is an umbrella system which is composed ot

about 20 data bases each created Cor a specific area of

interest. Tabulated subsequently is a short list of some ot

the data bases, pertinent to the interests of D Strat A.

The intormation includea is obtained from the descriptions

presented in DIALOG materidl.

a. NTIS is produced by the NaLional Technical

Information Service of the US -epartment oL

Commerce, the central source for the public sale

and di.%semination of US governmenc - sponsored

research. The data base consists of research,

development and engineering reports as well as

other analyses prepared by government agencies,

their contractors or grantees (particulary the US

Department of Environment, DOE; US Department ot

Defense, DOD; ana National Aeronautics and Space

Administration, NASA)

b. SOCIAL SCISEARCH database is an international,

multidisciplinary index to the literature ot the

social, behavioural and related sciences

represented by more than 1W0 important

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* journals. Additional relevant material from 2400

journals in the natural, physical and biomedical

sciences is selected.

c. OCEANIC ABSTRACTS organizes and inaexes worldwide

technical literature in all aspects of the

oceans, including uut not limited to sub3ect

areas of ships and shipping and governiment and

law.

d. (O.MPRF': iESI *'E DISSEITATION INDEX is a definitive

sutject, title, and author guide to virtually/ every American dissertation accepted at an

accredited institution since 1861 (first US

doctoral degrees). Master theses are selectively

indexed. Some Canadian dissertations are

included.

e. SOCIOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS, which corresponds to the

printed index of the same name, covers the

world's literaturt in sociology and related

disciplines in the s;)cial and behavioural

sciences.

f. AMEKiC.: -- HI:;TORY ANDT LIFE is a comprehensive

fil., inc tudir, the full range ot US and Can3"ian

history, area stadies and current atfairs. A

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list is available showing fields of specitic

emphasis which includes military histo-y,

politics and government.

g. HISTORICAL A13STRACTS includes the world's

periodical literature in histnry and related

iocial sciences and humanities. Coverage

excludes US and Canada but includes, among other

sub]ect areas, military history, international

Irelations and diplomatic history. Consideration

us given to 2,000 3ournals published in 90

ountries in some Jo languages.

h. ENVIROLINE, produced by Environment Information

Center (EIC), provides interdisciplinary coverage

.of the scientific, technical and socio-economic

aspects of the major English and non-English

language environmental and resources literature.

Among the Subjects covered are general

environmental topics, oceans and estuaries.

Material is drawn from approximately 5,0U

primary and secondary sourcos (i intormation.

j. AQUATIC SC!EtNCES AND FISHERIES ABSTRACTS is a

comprehen;ive database on tne science, technol(OgyV

and manaement of marina and freshwater

environme nts, and includes such subjects as law

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of the sea, vessels, underwater vessels arid

buoys.

k. MAGAZINE IMDEX provides cover-to-cover indexing

of over 370 popular American magazines, includirng

national and international current affairs.

1. PAIS INTERNATIONAL, the data base of Public

Attfairs Information Service, covers the full

range of the socil sciences with emphasis on

Contemporary public issues adr- the making and

evaluating of public policy. Worldwide in scope,

this databasc lists publications in English,

French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish,

and typically indexes more than 1200 journals and

8000 monographs each year.

m. SSIE CURRENT RESEARCII is produced by the

• 4Smithsonian Science Information LxehIng5. TV his

data bare contains summaries of rese!cch oither

in progress or completed in the past t%'o years.

The tile consists of Notices of Researcht Project

(NRP) that art- usually available ror retrieval

well before progress on final relrorts appear in

the open literature. The data base encom.,v; es

all fields of basic and applied research in thu

physical, social, engineering and life sciences.

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Ocer 100,000 NRPs are reyiste-ed each year, -

two-thirds of which are updates of continuing

research and are re-indexed as necessary to

reflect shifts in emphasis and scope. As a

research-in-progress database, this offers a

unique non-bibliographic intormation resource.

n. CONFERENCE PAPERS INDEX covers about 100,OUO

papers of approximately 80U scientific and

te,:hnical meetings worldwide each year.

Infurmation entries are based upon the final

pri'jram or abstract publication, supplemented by

responses to questionnairvis sent by staft.

Materia) reterenced may include papers presented

at conferences but not yet published and some not

intended for publication.

p. PTS TIME SERIES is composed of two data bases

cr.eated by PTS (Predicast.c Terminal System). The

f irst, PTS US TIME SERIES, contai ns US. data whi le

the .secona, PTs INTERNATIONAL TIME SERIES

contains data on the world, regions and

individual ctc.untries. Each ot these two data "

bastS contains an annu:il time series of

historical data and a time series ot historical -

and prolecteO data with covera;e including "

I production consumption, price and usage

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statistics for agriculture, mining, manufacturing

and service industries as well as general

economic, demographic and national income series.

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g. ECONOMICS ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL offers

world-wide economic information concerning market

trends, ecrnomic developments, particular

economic climates, managment problems and S

economic science. Over half the

geographic-specific material concerns Europe,

with 20% on Asia, 15% on North American and the

remainder on Africa, South American and Oceania.

The language distribution ot the sources is about

53% English, 20% German, 17% Dutch, 9% French and

1% other. Titles are generally given in the

I language of the original; all descriptors are in

English only.

UNITED STATES POLITICAL S(IENCE DOCUMENTS is

devoted to the in-depth coverage of thie most

widely used political science journals published

in the U.S. All articles (d cuver-to-cover

selection qolicy is used) from approximately 150

US journals are included.

s. CIS (Congressional Information Service) is a

master guide and index to the Vublications of the

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nearly 3OO United States House, Senate, and Joint

committees and sub-committees. These

publications include: reports, documents,

hearings, prints and special publications. The

CIS includes descriptive abstracts for each

publication, including abstracts for both main "

hearing records and each analytic (or witness)

hearing record.

t. TRADE OPPORTUNITIES WEEKLY (TOW) contains live

purchase requests by the international market tor

US goods and services. This time-critical . -

information is upaated weekly ano describes the

specific products or services which foreign

governments or companies want to purchase or

represent. TRADE OPPORTUNITIES (TO) contains the

historical information taken quarttrly from the

database, TOW. The data base TO includes

information in direct sales leads, ,)verseas

representation opportunities and foreign

government cails tor tender trom more than 120

countries.

u. BI/DATA TIME SERIES is a data base of ecoiomic

indicators which are used by busiress analysts to

demonstrate and forecast tluctuatihs in business

conditions. This data ba.:e consists ofii/1

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historical time series data on lip to 315

indicators for each of 131 countries. These

records are numeric ir nature and c5 not c,'ntain

narrative abstracts.

v. BI/DATA FORECASTS data base consists of SU

forecast reports, each contai-ing a narrative

t(.eXt anj a table of numerical forecasts.

*/ Short-term forecasts are available for -ill 35

countri'- ana meuiufn-zerm forecasts are av. i la!

fJ r 15. Each foreca;.t recocd provides a concise

report on current and expected government

policies, political, social and fi..ancial

conpition!e which are likely to affect economic

ierformanch over the forecast erioc, and also

presents specific torecasts for a number of

economic ino icat,')r3.i

W. GPO (Government Pr ntin Office) PUBLICATIONS

REFERENCE FILE(PRF) imiexes the public documents

currently for sale by the Superintendent of

Documents, US GPO, as well as torthcoming an(!

recertly out-ot-pri.t publications. These

publicati,)ns are :;enerattU hy the legislative and

vxecutive hranchis (A the 1;1j fedt.,ral government.

C.ojresnionl p,.nlications include bills,

hearings, r-'p-rtLS, 'locuimnnts t'om the comrnittct ,e!

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Executive branch publications include

Presidential statements as well as agency annual

reports, general informational ana operational

reports, long-established statistical series,

technical reports, maps, administrative

regulations, treaties and periodicals. Other

sources include independently - established

agencies and government corporations and various

boar(Is and committees.

x. NEWSEAkCH is thu daily upelate of .MAGAZINE INDEX,

NATIGNAL NEWSPAPER INDEX and LEGAL RESOURCE

INDEX. It providies front page to back page

irdeving of the Christian Science Monitor, New

Y)rk Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times

as w l as cover-to-cover indexing of over 370

popular American magazines, 66U law journals and

6 law newspapers. All articles, news reports,

editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries,

project evaluations, biographical pieces, poetry.

recipes, columns, cartoons, illustrations and

review- and included.

y. NATIONAL NEWSPAPER INDEX provides front-page to _

back-page indexing of the Christian icj,!ncc"

Monitor, New York Times, Will Street Journalt

Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. All

articles, news reports, editorials, letters to

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CAN/OLE

1 CAN/OLE whose title derives from Canadian online

+quiry system, is an umbrella system which is composed of

S bout 20 Canadian and international data bases. This system

'is a Canadian designed and operate;d national online

irformation retrieval systeim for the retrospective searching

of bibliographical reference filers in all major fields of p

science and technology. This system is produced by the

Canada Institute fir Scientific and Technical Information

(CISTI), a division of the Nati.onal Research Council.

Interactive conservation during gs arch/retrieval may be

conducted in English or French.

2. Tabulated subsequently is the list of data bases with

a short description of each, based on a CISTI pamphlet.

a. BIOSIS PREVIEW (IBA) prepared by the Bioscience

Information Service, contains references on all

aspects of the life sciences, including i' part,

agriculture, botany, biopihysics, bioengineering,

ecology, biochemistry, toxicology, pharmacology,

microbiology, and exp(,rimental medicine. Over

8000 journals are monitored, accounting for 95%

of the references.

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0. CA CONDENSATES (CAC), produced oy the Chemical

Abstracts Service, America.i Chemical Society,

contains references on all aspects of chemistry

and chemical engineering. Over 14000 journals

from 150 countries and in 50 languages are

mon. torer.

c. 'CA SEARCH (CAS), .produced by the Chemical

lAbstract Service, American Chemical Society,

1 represents the merger of the two files CASIA and

CA Condensates. This data base contains the CA rP!Volume Index entries, keyword Index entries and

the complete bibliographic citation for the

original document.

d. CHEMICAL INDEX (CHEMX), produced by the Chemical

Abstracts Service, American Chemical Society, is

a chemical index derived from the CA search file

and contains Pegistry Numbers, molecular formulas

in the Hill System Order and the CA Chemical

Substance Nomenclature. Se.; COMPENDEX (ET), produced by the Engineering Index

Inc, contains references to all aspects of

er.gineering including civil, mining, inCuStria.],

electronic, mechanical and chemical. Over 3000

journals are monitored whIch account for 53% ot

the references of wnicn 72t are Engli.zh Iariq~uaie

i tems.

f. COAL is published by the Technical Informaticn

Service, IEA Coal Research and is provided by the

Canada. Center for Mineral and Energy Technologjy.

Thijs file includles coverage of the coal industry,

resLerves and exploration, mining, transport and

handling, properties, processing, comblusti--n,

waste management, products, health and safety,

and environment aspects trom over 600 journals,

book, reports, dissertationg and conference

proceed ings.

g. GEOREF, published by the American Geological

Institute, contains relerences on all aspects of

the geoscience or earth science literature.

h. INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR INFORMATION SYSTEM(INIS),

database, developed by the International Atomic

Energjy Agency, provides worldwide cov4erage of the

literature dealing with peaceful uses of nuclear

science ano technology. It contains over 650.,000

records contributed by over 50 countries and

* internatiortal organizations.

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j. INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION SERVICES FOR THE

PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING COMMUNITIES (INSPEC),

produced by the (British) Institution of

Electrical Engineers, contains references on all

aspects of physics, electL-ical and electronic

engineering, computer technology and control

* "engineering. Over 23 journals are reviewed

including translations of Russian journals.

These account for 8Ut of the references of which

72' are Englibh language items.

NATIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION SERVICE (NTIS), is

an organizational element of the US Uepartment of

Commerce and serves as the primary source for the

public sale of iovernment-sponsored research,

development, engirneering reports and machine

processable data files ano related suftware. The

data base, while covering items originating from

over 300 US federal agencies, concentrates w,

science and tecnnology but also covers health, 7

education, ecnnomics, sociology ana benavioural

sciences. "

1. ALBERTA OIL SANDS INDEX (AOSI), prodluced by the

Aloerta R" ;,arch Council, is the key tp

documents on or related to all aspects of Alberta

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general articles and reviews; history; geology;

geography analysis and properties; in situ

recovery; mining; separation; upgrading; products

and by-products; commercial development;

economics; environment; socia] impact;

government; and related technology and topics.

m. COOPERATIVE DOCUMENT PROJECT (CODOC), file is

produced by the academic libraries of Ontario,

providing access to the combined governmental

publication collections of 12 participating

libraries in Ontario. The publications of

Canadian federal iknd provincial governments.as

well as municipal governments are included. In

addition publications of US (Fceral, State and

local), UK, British Commonwealth, France,

Germany, USSR and the UN (with its agencies) are

ie stored.

n. ENVIRONMENT LTMRARIES AUTOMATED SYSTEM tE.IAS),

file, created through the automated in-houst-

library system at the Departmental Library,

Environment Canada, proviaes access to holain is

of libraries participating its network. The

major sub]ect areas incluae: conservation and

natural resources; environmental impact analysis;

environment manaremont! fnrpstrv. lAnd 'i#b

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meteorology and climatology; pollution; water

resources and wildlife.

p. DIRECTORY OF FEDERALLY SUPPORTED RESEARCH IN

UNIVERSITIES (IEC), contains the essential data

on current university-based research projects as

reporLed to the Information Exchange Center (IEC)

Of CISTI, NRC.

q. MICROLOG, data base provides access to Canadian

federal, provincial ano local government

publications and also publications of

non-government research institutions,

professional associations and special interest.

I 3roups. The subject areas include .agriculture,

behavioural and social sciences, business and

economics, Canada North of 600, communications,

culture and humanities, education, ener-,

environment, external affairs, fisheries,

forestry, health care, justice labor, land use

and planning, life sciences, natural resources

and earth sciences, physical sciences, public

administration, public works, social affairs ano

transportation.

r. NORTHERN RESEARCI1 INFORMArION SERVICE (NRIS),

file, created by the No.-thern Social Research

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together and disseminates information on current

research relating to social concerns in the

Canadian worth. ."Social" is interpreted in its

broadest sense, to include at least environment,

health, education, law, -and communications.

s.1 CISTI CURRENT CATALOG (OON), file provides access

to a subset of CISTI's holdings and the holdings

of its branch libraries. This conversion of

CISTI's card catalogue is a g.radual process with

various types of material being phased in over a

period of time and will assist users in the

identification of material hela.

t!. CAN/MARC" (OONL), whose name drives trom CANadian

MAchine Readable Cata q-g'swas createa by the

National Library of Canada and is a file -

containing bibliojraphic intormarion on all

materials published in Canada since 1973 iritten

by Canadians or of Canadian interest. Material

includes books, pamphlets,

federal/provincial/municipal government

documents, report literature and Canadian theses

available on mnicroform.

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U. CANADIAN TRANSPORTATION DOCUMENTATION SYSTEM

(QOT) file, created by The Library and

Information Centre, Transport Canada, contains

the coded portion of its holdings which includes

all non-restricted Transport Canada documents, as

well as transportation and management related

reports from other tederal anc provincial

governments, universities and associitions and

selected toreign and Ameri!- an reports.

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V. UNION LIST OF SCIENTIiIC SERIALS IN CANADIAN

LIBRARIES (UNION), published by CISTI, contains

the locations of aj)proximately 49,UOU serials p

held by over 250 Canadian libraries.

w. CANUCS database is the on-line version of the

Union List of Serials in the Social scitnc, s and

Humanities heid by Canadian Universities and is

intended tor locating journals in Lanadian

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QL/SEARCH

OL/SEARCH is an umbrella system which is composea ot

about 69 data base, created tor a specific interest with

emphasis on Canadian topics. Tabulated subsequen~tly is a

short list at some of the no~ta bases, pertinent to the

interests of " Strat A. The information inclu.ed is

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obtainod from the descriptions prepared by OL systems Ltd.

a. AQUATIC SCIENCES AND FISHERIES ABSTKACIS (ASFA)

is an internati-mnal data base for the science,

technology and management of marine and

freshwater environments and is supported by the

Canadi..' Federal Department of Fisheries and

Oceans and WATI)OC of Environment Canala.

b. CANADIAN NEWS INDEX (CNI) contains mna)or storites

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from the Montrual Star, Torcnto Globe an,- Mail,

* Toronto Star, Vancouver Sun, Winnipei; tree Press,

Calgary Herald adr( Hal ifax Chroniclo-Herild and

is updated monithly.

c. COUNCIL OF '-NI'AIO UNIVH,:,TILS (xJ-uvf.iAr;VE

DOCUMSENTS aPnuEmbrs (CODOC) is a bibio.oraphcal

. buI9dt ae rae o pcfc neetwtemphsison anadan opis. Tbultedsubsquetlyis

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data base containing government document

collections of university libraries in Ontario.

d. COMMUNICATIONS INFORMATION (COMM) covers

communications, mass media, propoganaa and

telecommunications. The focus is contemporary .

I political, social and legal aspects with some

technical information also included.

e.1 CANADIAN PRESS NEWSTEX (CPN) lists the cumplete

CP News Wire Service from I May 19d! up to

midnight last night.

f. ENERGY (ENG) is the Canadian Energy Pro3ects

Information Data base prepared by Energy, Mines

* and Resources Canada in co-operation with the

provinces and the private sector, consisting of

summaries of significant energy research, 9-

development and demonstration projects in Canada.

g, HANSARD ORAL QUESTIONS (HUQ) contains both the

oral '4uestions and responses in. the Canadiarn

House of Co-mmons and is upoated biweukly with the

inclusion ,A the full text.

h. HA'ISARD WRITTbN QULSTIONS (HWQ) contains both the

written questions and responses in the Canadian

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inclusion of the full text.

0j. INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

(IBSS) is an experimental database of items to be

published in the 1979 and 1980 International

Bibliography of Economics and 1980 International

Bibliography of Sociology and will be editea by

Dr. J. Viet for the International Committee for

Soci al Science Information and Documentation.

k. SOLID WASTE (SOL) contains detailed references to

solid waste management projects uncertaken inp

Canada since 1970 and is produced by Environment

Protection Service and WATDOC, Environment

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ORBIT .,,

1. ORBIT is an online irnteractive bibliographic

\ /~rutrieval system designed and implemented by the Search_

Iservice Division of System Development Corporation, Santa 0

M onica, California. The name, ORBIT, is derived from online

.retrievai of bibliographic information timeshared. This

umbrella system is continually being improved to provide

ever greater retrieval power and today has over 60 data

bdsoeS covering almost every aspect of scientific,- technical,

business and research endeavor.

2. A selection of some of the data bases with an

indication of the subject area follows:

a. APILIT, supplied by Central Abstracting andIndexing Service of The American Petroleum

Institute- (API), contains citations to literature

relating to the petroleum refining ana petro-

chemical industry, including information an

alternate energy sources and environment effects

of energy. Coverage includes both scientific and

technical developments ana enginvering and

process level work. Source d'zu'nints include

trade magazines, technical journals, meeting

paper and government reports.

b. ASI, is suppliea by the Conjressional intormation

Service, Inc., and is equivalent to the printenpublication, American Statistics Index. The

source documents are continuinj serials,

!. perionicals, annuals and bier*aals, and special

publications containing the entire spectrum of

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social, economic and demographic data collecteua* and analyzed by all branches ana agencies of the

US government. included are publications

generated by tne major US federal government

statistical agencies: Bureau of Census, BureauIof Labor Statistics, National Center for SocialStatistics and the Statistical Reporting service

of The Department of Agriculture.

C1 BUSINESS is suppliedI by Intomart (Souc~hamj4 Inc/Tarstar Corp) Ond is equivalent to Businessand Gove rnm~ent News which indexes 14 major

Canadian newspapers. The datibase Covers every)type of Ousiness - and gove rnment- relatedjinfyrmation including tl;i, economy, energy,

environin'pit., tinance industry, labour, taxation

anu trade.

a.CDI, sup~plied by Xerox university Microtilms, isI equivalent to the printed publications,

Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI) anfl

American Doctoral Dissertations (ADD). Thisdatabase provides a comrprehensive index to all

dissertations accepted for doctoral degreesIL (excluding professional or honorary degrees)

granted by US educational institutions and over%125 non-tjS institutions. The Subject coverage ismulti-disci~dinary ancd includes the humanities,social scie inces, sciences and engineering.

e. CIS is supplied by the Congressional informationService inc. and is equivalent to the printedpublication cis Index. The material covers

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Reports, Committee Prints and other documents.

Public Laws are added on an annual basis.

Cross-disciplinary coverage includes public

services programs, raw materials and consumer

products, industry technology, legal questions,

national and international government policies

and events, conservation and the full range of

issues and topics of legislative concern. p

f. CNI, is supplied by Information Access which is a

joint project of Data Base Publishing Corporation

and Micromedia. This database covers 7 major

Canadian newspapers: Montreal Star, Toronto

Globe ana Mail, Toronto Star., Vancouver Sun,

Winnipeg Free Press, Calgary Herald and Halifax

Chronicle-Herala. The aata base indexes all

facets of the news, including national and

international news, provincial aftairs, local

news, editorials, letters, obituaries, world

hews, government activities, labour news, fires,

accidents, sports, biography and reviews.

g. COMPENDEX, supplied by Engineering Index Inc, is

equivalent to the Engineering Index Monthly.

This database covers.world-wide significant

engineering literature from approximately 2,00U

* ser ials and over 900 monographic publications

(including books and conference proceedings).

Fields of engineering and related subject areas

include: aerospace engineering; agricultural

engineering and food technology; auto.-otive

engineering; bioengineering; chemical

engineering; civil engineering; computers and

.data processing; construction materials; control

engineering; electrical engineering; electronics• I

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and communications enginbeering; engineering

geology; engineering physics;, 4luid flow; heat

and thermodynamics; industrial aild. management

applications; instruments and measurements; light

and optical technology; marine engineering-.,

materials' properties and testing; mechanical

engineering, metallurgical engineering; mining

engineering; nuclear techno logy; ocean and

underwater technology; petroleum engineering; N

porlution; sanitary engineering and waste;

railroad engineering; transportation; and water

and waterworks engineering.

p.

h. COLD, supplied by the US Army Corps of Engineers

(Cold Regions Research and Engineering

*Laboratory), is equivalent to Antarctic

gBibliography and Bibliography on Cold Regions

Science ard Technology. The data base covers all

disciplines dealing with Antarctica, the

Antarctic Ocean and subantarctic islands; snow,

ice ant frozen ground; navigation in ice; civil

engineering in cold regions; behavior and

operation of materials and equipment in cold

* temperatures. The source materials include

monographs, technical reports, journal articles,

conference papers, patents and maps from

* world-wide agencies.

j. CRECORD, suplied by Capitol Services Inc, is

equivalent to the printed Congressional Record

SSection of eeral Abstracts. This data b e

sprovides a ccmprehensive index, with abstracts,

of the Congressional Record, the official journal

Sof proceedings of the US Congress including the

House, Senate, Extension of Remarks and Digest

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Sections. It contains references to bills ano

resolutions, amendments to bills and resolutions,

committee and sub-commitee reports, legislation

recently signed into law (Public Law), flooractions, schedules of committee and floor

activities, executive communications anda

/speeches, participation in debates, and insertedimaterials by member of Congress.

k. IELCOM, supplied by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

Inc, is equivalent to Electronics and

Communtications Abstracts Journal and Computer andInformation Syitems Abstracts Journal. The

subject material includes electronic physics,Ielectronic systems and applications, electroniccircuits, electronic devices, communications,

computer software, computer applications,

computer mathematics, and computer electronics

from internatpional sources including periodicals,

government re ports, conference proceedings,

books, dissertations and patents.

1. ENERGYLINE, is supplied by Environment

Information Center Inc, based upon energy

materials from Environment Abstracts and all

materials fromi Enetrgy Information Abstracts. Thedata base screens over 2,000 journals and

* 'research reprts, urveys, hearings, irregularserials, moographs and conference proceedings to

provide comprehensive coverage of some 20

different energy-relatedareas: econo ic-s; USpolicy and planning, international political and

economic issues; and 0; resources and reserves, Ipetroleum and natural gas resources; coal

nc, i equivalent - Ao Eec trron a ltactric

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power; nuclear power; thermonuclear power; 5

industrial, transportation and residential

consumption; and environmental impact.

is. ENVIROLINE, supplied by Environment Information

Center Inc, is equivalent to Environment

Abstracts. This data base provides coverage in

the environmental and resources areas of the

journal literature, conference proceedings,

governmental and institutional reports,

newspapers, the Federal Register, books, and some

films. Major topics coverea are Air Environment

(including air pollution, noise pollution ana

weather modification); Environmental Health

(including food and drugs, porulation planning

and control, chemical biological and radiological

contamination); Land Environment. (including land.-

use and misuse, terrestrial resources, solid.

wastes, transportation and wildlife management); S.-Resource Manage'.ent (including renewable and

non-renewabale resources); and Water Environment

(including watet pollution, water resources.

oceans and estuaries).

n. ERIC, supplied hy the National Institute of

Education, comprises report literature ano

journal literature in educationally revelant

areas: career education; adult and vocational IL-

and technical education; counselling and

personnel services; reading ano communication

skills; educational management; handicapped anagifted children; information resources (including I__educational media/technology and

library/information science); languages ind"

linguistics; early childhood education; rural

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education; rural education and small schools;

science, mathematics and environmental education;

social science/social studies: te achter education;tests, measurement, ano evaluation; disacivantaiwa

a nd junior colleges.

P. FEDEX, (derived trom Federal Index, its printed

equivalent), suppliea by Predicatts Inc, contains

information on federal governmenit activities from

the Congressional Record, the Federal Register.

the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documentst

Commerce Business Daily anJ the Wash'.ngto. Post.

The citations provide access to the Code of

Federal Regulations, tile US Code, Public Laws,

Congressional bill's, Resolutions and Reports.

The information i~s indexed by acting government

agency, affected industry or institution and type

of ,overnment action ur tunction.

q. FSTA (its prinred equiva1.ont Foo-i Science analechnolojy Abstracts) is supplied by

Internerional Ficill !nforrm-tion service. '0115)a bs e woere h ent i r- t jt-ld o"ftooG scie nce

and technol-gy 'from, the tirmr )ato to the

packay;ed product...rnr al1 L'r-s -): .o,d i.,teriaed

tor h~uman ri. u 1o~J~) t i -* ri 1opic s ictclude

composicion and prc::erti,s of tood(!, toon'

handlIi ig, and transpnrt. food enginlering, tood

processing -~no pre-prv-,iessinq, illalysis, quality

control, legislation, hygiene, storage, packagingand the management of processes and plants.

Primary fooc 3ourni1s are abstracted cover to

cover and frinqe journals are included on a-..- ~el %-% rip.1w vt twAkq.

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r. FEDREQ, is supplied by Capitol Services Inc, with

coverage including agriculture, arts and

humanities, athletics, business, constitutional

rights, consumer affairs, contracts, defense.

environment, foreign affairs, law enforcement,

parks and recreation, taxation, technology, •

trade, transportation and ',eterans' affairs.

Documents surveyed included Rules, Proposed

Rules, Public Law Notices,, Meetings, Hearuings and

Presidential Proclamations.

s. INSPEC, supplied by Inspec, (UK), institution of

Electrical Engineers, is based upon the printed

Physics Abstracts, Electrical and Electronics

Abstracts and Computer and ContrQl Abstracts.

This data base provides world wide coverage of

the literature in physics, electrical and

electronics engineering. The source oocuments

are primarily journal articles; however,

government reports, patents and monouraphs are

included.

t. LABORX)UC, is supplied oy the International Labour

Organization. The cata base covers worlowice

journal and monographic literature in the field

of economic and social development and industrial

relations including such topics as irternational

relations, economic conditions and pohicies,

aemogjraphy, management, education, law,

* agriculture, environment and earth sciences./.

U. LZBCON. is supplied by SDC Search Service and

nrnvirlac avt,3h= va onvorap nf the monooiraohic;/i

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included are MARC records distributed by LC ana

*main entry/title records keyed by 3M from the .C

depository card set.

V. MONITOR, is supplied by Bell and Howell and

provides coverage of all articles and many of the

regular columns that appear in all the regular

editions of the Christian Science Monitor.

w. NDEX, (based on Newspaper Indexes) is supplied by

Bell and Howell. The coverage is general news

(international, national, state and local)published in 7 major US newspapers: Chicago

Tribune, Detroit News, Boston Post, Los Angeles

Times, New Orleans Time Picayune, San Francisco

Chronicle, Washington Post.

x. NTIS, supplied the (US) National Technical

Information Service, covers US

government-sponsorea research and Uevelopment

- --.' technical reports from over 2000 Federal agencivs

ana some reprints, teaerally-sponsored

translations, and foreign-language reports in

areas of major technical interest.

Multi-disciplinary scope includes aeronautics;

agriculture; astronomy ano astrophysics;

atmospheric sciencos; benavioural and social

sciences; biological and medical sciences,

chemistry: earth sciences and Qceanography;

electronics and electrical engineering; energy

conversion (non-propulsive): materials;

mathematical sciences; mechanical, industrial,

" '.civil and marine engineering; methods and

equipment; military sciences; missile technology; --

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crunter-measures; nuclear science and technology;

ordnance; physics; propulsion ana fuels; ana

space technology.

y. POLLUTION, is supplied by Pollution, a division

of Data Courier Inc, and contains reterences to

worldwide technical literatur- covering some S2500 journals, conference proceedings and papers,

and monographs in the subject areas of air

pollution, water pollution, solia wastes, noise,

pesticides, radiation and general environr.iental

quality.

PROMT, supplied bV Predicasts Inc, is based on

the printed form PROMT (derived form PredicastsOverview of Markets ana Technology) which, in

turn, derives from the US Bureau of Census'

Censas of Manutactures. The recoroea material

includes source, tables, abstracts and assi, ,id

cods and vocabulary.

aa. QUEIB C, is supplied by Microror Inc, and cons sts

ot extracts from three major French-language

newspapers of North Arerica: Le Devoir, La

Presse and Le Soliel. rhe coverage includes

cultural, economic, political, relijons and

social aspects of life in Quebec Province, zswell as ikternational news items.

bb. SSCI, supplied by (Ui) Institute to'r Scientific

Information and is Dased on the printed SocialSciences Citation Index. This data nase provides

references to journal literature in all areas otthp sneial Aniences includinQ the followinl

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and finance, communications, community health,

criminology, economics, uemographics. education,

ethnic group studies, geography, history, •

information and library science, internationalrelations, law, linguistics, management,

marketing, philosophy, political science,

psychology, psychiatry, sociology, statistics and

urban planning and development.

cc. SSIE, supplied by the Smithsonian Science

Information Exchange Inc, covers reseach in

progress and recently completed research -

sponsored by over 1300 (US) federal, state, and

local government agencies; associations and

foundations; indiviaual investigators;

universities and colleges and some industrial and .

nor-US organizations. The subjects include basic

and applied research in all areas of the lite,

physical, social behavioral and engineering

sciences.p

dd. TULSA, preparea at the University eL Tulsa and

equivalent to Petroleum Abstracts-, provides

worldwide covercege ot literature and patents

related.-to the exploration, development, and

production of oil and natural jas including the

fields of geology, geophysics and geochemistry;

drilling, well logging, well completion and

services; oil and gas production; reservoir

studies and recovery methods; petroleumtransportation and storage; ecology and

pollution; ano alternate fuels and energy

sources.

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ee. USCA, prepared by the Washington Representat,,ive

-/ Services, is equivalent to the printed USContract Awards which is based on data in the

Commerce Business Daily (CbD), Sections A, H and

~U. The information recorded includes pro]ect

title, awardee, sponsoring organization, fundin.j,

CBD date, contract and RFP numbers and categoLy/ codes.-

ff .SPSD, is supplied by the University of

Pittsburgh (Center for International Studies)

and is equivalent to the printed United States

Political Science Documents. This data base

provides cover-to-cover analysis of 150 major US

- IJc rnals devoted to political science

world-wide. Subjects include foreign aftairs an,

international relations, defense and strategi.c

studies, "area" studies(Lati.n American, Africa,

Middle East, etc.), urban and governmental

affairs and the traditional concerns of voting,

power, authority, legitimacy, etc.

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DkOLS

I. The Defense research ann development (R and U) in

technology and engineering (T and E) On-line System (DROLS)

provides access to informatior maintained at the US Detense

Documentation Center. The -nrrious number and entries, with

emphas s on the physical and social science, has a monthly

update ecause of the classification and sensitivity of

materi l, access by Canada is through DSIS.

2. A search technique may employ author, sourco

(origihating agency), kuy word in the title ana descriptors.

Boolear logic may be *uscd in searchinj which may also be

-imite' by security classificat'ion and time periods.

I C,3. The material includes products from defense agencies

and co. tractors. There are some abstracts provided for the

riumber d series AD (unclassified) ADb (unclassified but

limite, distribution) a.nd ADc (confidential, secret). There

is no .top secret material includea. Following a successful

searcty, DSIS will forward cocuments if they are held,

otherwise a need-to-know is required to supprort a requtest to

the USi authorities.

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RETRO

1.The OSIS Retrospective Search System (RETRO) contains

information on all documents held by Us15 which have been

collected since 1946 and now total approximately 5IJU,UO0.

*Fhe collection* is approximately 25% Canadian by source that

includes the Defence Research Establishments ana ORAE, rtherIND establishments, the CF Commands, the military staft

colleges and contractors. Other important sources are the,

US, British, Australian government agencies (pruiarily

defdnce) ana NATO.

2. The search methods may incluae key woras in the

* - title, by author and by source. As well, a set of

14-scriptors trIm a controlled vocabulary (based on

TEST-ThesauruF of Engineering and Scientific Termns) may be

employed. Boolean logjic (AND, OR~, NOT) may be usea to aid

S.One (if the features of kETRO is that it leadis to the

Iarje bank of microfiches available locally prodcLIed fly (US)

Natinal Technical Information Service (N'tIS) under the ADa

nurlbered0 series which is unclassifieo and unLestrictea

coverirgj US defense-sponsored activity.

4. As a result of a successful IRE'RO search, one obtains

title, author, MSIS Accession number and. I list ot

descriptors. This information provides in entry into the

COM system (Computer Output Film) which will Provide an

abstract. This system permits a manual siearch through tapes

whose gubject material is orgjanizeu by source, author,

(Wscritors, and 0515 accession number.

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INFO GLOBE

INFO GLOBE is an on-line data base containing the

full text of articles published in the Globe and Mail from

Nove rber 1977 to the present. The Report on Business was

added in January 1978. Virtually every article which

appears in the Final Edition of the Globe and Mail is

/ contained in the data base including subjects of nvws,

sports, business news. entertainment, t-ditoria].s, columns,

features, fashion, letters to the editor. etc. Info Globe

usus free text inde::ing wlich mneans that every word in every

story is a searchable item.

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NYTIS/Information bank

1. The New York Times Information Service (NYTI! ) is a

subsiduary of the New York Times Company which pruduces

several databanks including the Information Hank. This is a

comprehensive current affairs database providini coverage of

national and international news and relat .ed topics. Input

is deh'ved from the final late city edition of the NYT,

inelulIng Sunday and rejional teature sections,'plus more

titan 10 other newspapers and p.eriodicals. Priority inputs

are m.de for items from the NYT, Wall Street Journal, P

Washi gjton Post, Businaess Week, and the Financial Times of

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NEXIS

1. This database, NEXIS, is an umbrella system produced

by M.EAD Data Central.. This is a computerized information.

retri,.aI service provicing on-line access to full-text

inform~ation from newspapers, news nad business magazines,

newsletters, wire services, encyclopecias and other sources

totalling altogether about 60. The subject areas include

business, finance, economics, banking, petroleum, coal,

mining, engineering, electronics, space technology,

chemistry, US government anid foreign, alftairs.

ANNEX K

CANS I H

1. CANSII4 (Canadian Socio-economic Information

Management System) is Statistics Canada's publicly

accessible computerized data bank and suppdrting sottware.

The CANSIM SUMMARY REFERENCE INDEX provrides a general

content outline of the data base and is the primary tool

necessary to determine the availability of data and the LIATA

bank identification numbers. The CANSI Main Base contains

appro~ximately 300,000 time series which are organized in

groups and is equivalent to a, "table" in a publication..

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DMS/ONLINEa

.. DMS/ONLINE is an umbrella system jointly offered by

DMS Inc. and Data Resources Ince. and which describes

activity in th defense and aerospace industries with

services as follows:

p. Contract Awards/ONLINE provides total coverage

for all nonclassified military and aerospace

prime contracts in excess of $lU,O00 awarded by

federal agencies, departments or procurement

offices that are responsible tor developing,

producing or procuring high-technology equipment.

Detailed information is provided for each

contract o! the average total-of about O,000'

which are awarded annually. -

b. DMS Market Intelligence/ONLINE will provi,.

- information about 19 key markets as follows -

i Aerospace Agencies

d , ii Aerospace Companies

iii "AN" Equipment

iv Civil Aircratt

41 Defense Market

vi Electronic Systems

vii Military Aircraft

viii Missiles/Spacecraft

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x Electronic Wartare

xi Gas Turbine Engines

xii Middle East/Africa

Xiii Military Laser ana EQ

xiv. Military Simulators

xv Missiles and Satellites (Europe)

xvi NATO/Europe

Xvii NATO/Weapons

xviii Radar and Sonar

Xix Pauth America/Australasia

Each report contains all the aefenceprograms

relating to the report topic. Each program has a data

section (er;. funding, mission characteristics and

specifications etc.) and an analysis section (eg

background, current activity, commants, forecast).

Currently only 4 of these reports are online and thus2 are:

Electronic Systems; Military Aircratt; Missile/Spacecraft

and Ships/Vehicles/Ordnance.

c. Special Services/ONLUNE contains all other

publications produc3l by DMS, -which incluae!:

DMS Newsletters

International Defense Intelligence

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Contracting Intelligence

Aerospace Intelligence

Turbine intell~igence

iiDms special stuuies

World Aircraift Forecast

worlco HeI.cn-pter Forecast

Milit-ry LaSer and E:O Europe 19d2

US Code Name hanabooK

Ar.-i:-r.ed Vehicles

Others pa2blished tr-ri 1932 onwaro:-..

ifaddition. other servico-s art- available as

iii Official Defenge Oocu.-ient Service, S~

Feb 198.1, contains every- otticial (nocunent

release" f~rom the ihjite Pose the State

Departme'nt or Departmnent ,:,f Dotvnse relatingj

*to defensoe policy or the detense dua et.

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iv Agency and Inoustry Otficials, startea in

1982, is an online organization chart service

of aefence agencies ana top officials in

defense and aerospace industries.

v Aerospace Intelligence Daily, started in

1982, gives a oai~y online newsletter

N •(electronic ,ail of important activities

that have occurruo wccloI wiele in the oetense

ana aerospace industries.

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DRI's INTE'NATIONAL DATA BANKS

1. These data banks available from Data Resources, Inc,

encompass a broad range of economic, financial and

trade-oriented statistics for virtually every nation.

Sources include both international agencies (such as IMF,

Work ,rank and OECD) as well as national statistical agencies

and centra] banks.

2. Within the wide number and variety of proaucts

available from DRI, the Department of External Affairs has

chosen to subscribe to the followinj:

a. Full Off-Line Cana'iin Economic Service

b. Limited On-line Canadian Economic Servic:

C. Limited Off-line Euro;ean Economic Service

a. Limited Off-line Japanese Economic bervice

e. ITS - interrationdl ,'r,..e Intc.rmatxL)n Serv9ce

f. I.MF,,,), - WF Direction )f Trade Data Bank*1

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g. IMF/BOP - IMF balance ot Payments Uata Bank

3. The selection indicated in the previous paragrapni

comes from a lar,;er number of interestinq data bases wlsich

is listed fully below for information.

a. IBRD Worhi Deot Tables Data Bank

b. IMF Balance of Payments Data bank

C. IMF Direction of Traoc Data Bank

d. I RF International Financial Statistics Data Bank

e. IMF International Financial Statistics Restateo

Data Bank

f. International Energy Data Banks

"' International Trade Information service Data

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h. .OECD Economic Indicators Data Bank

. OECD National Income Accounts Data Bank

k. OECD Series A Data Bank

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1. Current Economic indicdtors Data bank

M. European National Sources Data Bank

n. Japanese Data Bank-

p. Japanese E~nergy Data Bank

q. Developing Countries Data Bank

r. Asian-Data Bank

S. Latin America Data Bank

't. US Central Data bank

u. US Prices Data Bank

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DOW JONES NLWS/RETRIE'vAL

1. This data base, with information fram one business

* quarter (90 days;. containst

a. articles from the Wall Street Journal, Barron's

and the Dow Jones NVews Service (the "Broadtape")

b. Stock Quote a9eporter with current day market

quotes

Historical Quotes

d. DISCLUSURL Ki.ls company prof ile-.

e. Media General ssvrv ices detajle-3 firtancial

information on NY. AMEX and top OTC companies.

2. This data nase is trvv-text searchable usinj woras

* phrases r.r d~tes.

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CANADA's BILATERAL KELA IONS: SOME KEY STATISTICS

1. This aatazase, puolishea annuall7 by the Library of

the Canadian Department of External Atfaird, is an automated

reference juice to the statistics coveringj certain of

Canada's bilaterre, relations under the following general

heacirtgs:

( a. horla Perspectives (Imports, exports, Canacian

collar exchangje rate)

I ~ * Canapian Traue

c. Canaca-Balance Ot Paym"11ts

d.canadiin ana Fo2reig~n Investntnt SLatistics

e. I.ruiration-Triavel

f. Developmrent Assistance

'.Demnolrapnic Statistics

hl. Li'h-ng Stancards -OECD) Counteits

ANNEX

INTERNATIONAL TRADE DATA BANK

1. This data bank, prepared by the International

Economic Policy Secretariat Canadian Department of External-

Affairs, incorporates a flexible data manipulation and

reporting system to provide annual data on the imports and

exports of 66 individual major trading countries as well as

for both the EEC of 9 as a group and the Aggregate of OECDS.

member countries. The material is publis'hed as a hard

COPY.

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FILMED

10-84

DTIC