According to Cheryl Martin:

.      Thanks to everyone who responded to my orginal request for
.      information about full text newspapers on CDROM.  As promised
.      here is a summary of the responses.  Most of the respondents did
.      not say whether the products mentioned were in ASCII text or full
.      image unless where mentioned
.
.      1. Softline Information, Inc. has a CD product called Ethnic
.         NewsWatch which provides full text coverage for 100 U.S.
.         ethnic newspapers.  Their address is P.O. Box 16845, Stamford,
.         CT 06905, (203) 968-8878 or fax 968-2370.
.
.      2. Newsbank offers The Washington Post, Washington Times and New
.         York Newsday as full text products.  These were the only three
.         titles mentioned.

No, no, no......Newsbank has many others, inc. Orange County Register,
St. Petersburg Times, ----Library of Congress News paper and Current
Periodical Reading Room has about 10 stations of Newsbank CDROM products.

.      3. One respondent mentioned that UMI gives full text coverage to
.         seven main U.S. newspapers, however, she did not list the
.         titles of the seven.  Another respondent did, however, mention
.         that UMI has The Washington Post, NY Times and Wall Street
.         Journal on CD.  These products are full text but not full
.         image.  Coverage is from 1990 forward.  Each year is on a
.         separate disc so you will need to take into consideration the
.         number of disc drives available to your location when
.         evaluating this product.  In the past, UMI was providing some
.         type of discounts to users of their microfilm products.  This
.         policy may or may not be in existence today.
.
.      4. ProQuest offers The NY Times on CD.

ProQuest is UMI.

.      5. Dialog Ondisc offers New York Newsday on CD.
.
.      If anyone has anything to add to this list there are several of
.      us out here who are interested.
.
.
.      Are there any newswire services who are offering their products,
.      full text, on CD?
.
.      Cheryl Martin
.      cmartin@pjc.cc.fl.us

Matthew Gilmore
mgilmore@capcon.net

D.C. Public Library
Washingtoniana Division
202.727.1213

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