C. Berger. Recruitment agency for librarians and information professionals. See also job vacancies notice board.
CAB International, CABI. Agricultural, veterinary medicine and forestry database producer. Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences. Formerly Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux.
CABS. Current Awareness in Biological Sciences. Range of biomedical databases from Elsevier Science.
California University Libraries, Berkeley. 4th largest academic library in the US. The MELVYL OPAC (combined university of California libraries union catalogue), is larger than the Harvard university library.
Cal Info. Research and document retrieval service.
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, CSA. US scientific/technical database producer, e.g. Life Sciences Collection. Also includes information on the new Internet Database Service, providing access to over 60 bibliographic databases.
Canada's Digital Collections. Public domain data covering business, science & technology, fine arts, first peoples, geography, government, History, Canada at war, Canadian history, places in Canada and local history, labour, literature and social studies.
Canadian Trade
Index. Industrial directories with US and Canadian content
respectively that have just been re-designed to offer significantly
more information to on-line users. Includes detailed product and company
information on over 140,000 US and Canadian manufacturers, including
links to most of them. See also Macrae's Blue Book.
CAPCON Library Network. Not-for-profit US organization, for Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia. OCLC Regional Affiliate Network. See also OHIONET, WILS, SOLINET, BCR, MLC and Minitex.
Captioned Media Program. CMP. US Government supported service offering loans of over 4,000 open-captioned (subtitiled) videos to deaf and hard of hearing individuals, as well as libraries and information centers.
Catermill. UK information services. BEST database is now operated by Community of Science.
CatchWord.Electronic journal subscription and document delivery. Some other such services listed in Info Connect are:
British Library Document Suppy Centre,
Faxon, UMI, CIS, Swets, Infotrieve,
Blackwell's Electronic Journals Navigator, EMDOCS, Information Quest,
Doc Deliver, OCLC Electronic Collections Online, CAS DDS,
The Genuine Article, Doc Deliver, EBSCO Online, Adonis, Information Express, EDRS (ERIC) and Uncover. See also Electronic Journals.
CCITT databases. See ITU databases.
CCTA. UK Government information service. See also UK Central Office of Information.
CDB Infotek. Business and legal information service. Largest provider of online public records in the legal profession.
CEDOCAR. See Questel-Orbit.
CELEX. Comprehensive and authoritative multilingual information source on European Community law. See also European Union databases.
Center for Commercial Negotiations International. Collects, develops, and disseminates helpful information related to the negotiation of commercial arrangements worldwide. The Center is a privately funded not-for-profit corporation and educational information resource independent of any university, association, government, or commercial enterprise, but with author, distributor, alliance, and customer relationships.
Centre for Information Quality Management, CIQM. Deals with quality of online, CD-ROM and Internet databases/resources and with database labelling. A means of quality assuring databases to their users. Set up by the UK Library Association.
Chadwyck-Healey. Worldwide CD-ROM databases producer. Web site includes information on LIterature ONline (Lion) database system.
Chandos Publishing. New service for information professionals, also provides information
on the new series of books on information management & librarianship
Checkpoint. US Federal and State taxation database. See also Taxbase.
Chemical Abstracts Service, CAS. Premier chemical database producer. The Eastern bloc equivalent is VINITI's RZK from Russia. See also American Chemical Society ChemCenter database system.
Chemical database. ChemFinder. Search options include chemical name, CAS number, molecular formula and molecular weight. Further choice of advanced search options. From Cambridge Software. See also ChemWeb's Chemdex database indexes and Daylight.
Chemical database 2. Search results include CAS numbers, chemical structure diagram, molecular weight, and several other data such as reaction thermochemistry data, gas phase ion energetics data, and coloured infra red spectrum & mass spectrum diagrams. From the US National Institute of Standards and Technology. See also US Hazardous Chemical database.
Chemical database 3. Physical properties database. E.g temperature, pressure, and volume, mass, and acentric factor from a database of 618 components.
Chemical Database Service, CDS. UK national database service for chemical data information for the academic community. Daresbury Lab. See also Royal Society of Chemistry databases.
Independent Chemical Information Services. Merged with London Oil Reports. Provides provided market coverage on the price, supply and availability of inorganics, olefins and intermediates, as well as aromatics, plastics, solvents and fertilizers.
ChemID database. Chemical Indentification dictionary. Search options include CAS number, and formula. From the US NLM, and based on CAS databases.
Organic chemistry database. Search options include several parameters: chemical formula, melting/boiling point,UV absorption wavelengths, mass spectral peaks, index of refraction, molecular weight, and presence or absence of carbon groups such as carbonyl and aromatic.
Chemcyclopedia. Database of commercially available chemicals. Data includes trade names, packaging information, shipping requirements, potential applications.
ChemPort. Full text electronic journal subscription service for chemical literature. See also CAS DDS, and electronic journal subscription services.
ChemWeb. Chemists information club, offering a wide range of information services, full-text online chemical journals and databases. The free Chemdex database indexes over
2000 chemical databases on the web.
Children's Book Council. The first place to look for books for minors. See also Biblio Visual, School librarians on the web and US School libraries.
Chinese Medical College library OPAC. Telnet. Login as "Library." Chinese ideographic (Kanji) characters are transmitted via CCCII (EACC) code or BIG5 code.
Citation. Stand alone bibliographic database. Download a free PCdemo, (No mac version yet). Others listed in Info Connect are EndNote, Reference Manager, Library Master, Bookends, GetARef, ProCite, Idealist, Papyrus, Refsys Super, BibDB, bibIX,
BiblioCite Pro, BookWhere, Biblioscape, Bibliographica,
Biblogic, VCH Biblio, Autobiblio, dms4cite and NotaBene
CiteLine. An Internet search service for those in the marketing, business development, regulatory affairs, or related areas in the pharmaceutical and health technology industries. From Citizen 1, a leading supplier of innovative Internet research software to pharmaceutical and health technology companies.
City Information Group. Professional body for business information specialists in the UK. See also business information.
CNIC, Centre Nationale de L'Information Chimique. French database host for the chemical databases of Chemical Abstracts Service. Serves France, Monaco, Quebec (Canada) and many other French speaking nations.
Coalition for Networked Information, CNI. An organization to advance the transformative promise of networked information
technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.
Cobweb Information. Information services in the business start up/ small business sector.
Cochrane Library. A regularly updated international electronic library designed to provide health care information e.g. Evidence Based Medicine, and related resources. First released in April 1996, The Cochrane Library is now published quarterly and is available on a subscription basis and is distributed on disk, CD-ROM, and over the Internet.
Collectanea Abstracts and full text access to periodicals. From Ebsco.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory library. Library is a specialized reference and research collection of scholarly monographs and journals with an emphasis on genetics, molecular biology, plant genetics, neurobiology and cancer research. See molecular biology databases.
CoLRiC.
An independent organisation dedicated to enhancing and
maintaining the quality of libraries and learning resources services in further
education colleges throughout the UK and Ireland. Services include
publishing national standards and criteria for service provision; raising
awareness
and understanding of libraries and learning resources service's role.
Committee on Data for Science and Technology CODATA. Working on an interdisciplinary basis, CODATA seeks to improve the quality, reliability, processing, management and accessibility of data of importance to science and technology.
Commonwealth Resource Centre Library. UK. Provides multi-media resources for loan and information on all 54
member countries, peoples and organisations making up the contemporary Commonwealth community.
Community of Science. Offers complete information solutions to universities, corporations, libraries, and societies, through superior database technology on the World Wide Web. COS Expertise and COS Funding
Opportunities are comprehensive, international databases of current research activities and funding award information. Key bibliographic databases, including GeoRef, Compendex and Medline,
are available with a high-end, Web-optimized search interface. In addition, COS specializes in full-text journal publishing and distributed authoring tools that create scientific communities on the Web
Congressional Information Service, CIS. US document supply service offering a wide array of printed indexes, electronic databases, and archival microfiche collections on US legislation and politics. See also US Government Printing Office and US Thomas Legislative Information System.
Congressional Quarterly. US legislation information services, covering the US Senate and House of Representatives bills, testimonies, reports etc.
Context. Producer of UK and European legal and government CD-ROM databases, such as the JUSTIS range of database products. Free sampler CD-ROM available. See also Sweet & Maxwell, Lawtel, Lexis-Nexis, and West Publishing.
Consortium of University Research Libraries, CURL. UK. The CURL library OPAC provides a unified access to the online catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland. About 13 million MARC records.
Corporation of London Libraries. Public libraries in the City of London, the financial district of London, and the second important London borough after the London Borough of Westminster. See also London Borough of Westminster libraries.
Copyright.com Copyright Clearance Center. Servives include obtaining permission to use copyright material such as articles and book chapters for photocopies, marketing literature, coursepacks, library reserves, Web sites and more.
Copyright Licensing Agency, CLA. UK's reproduction rights organisation. See also British Copyright Council, UK Copyright Libraries Agency, and US Copyright Office.
Copyright resource. Huge selection of resources on copyright. Everything you wanted to know about copyright, but was afraid to ask!
CorpTech. Huge database of over 45,000 high-tech companies. The premier site for research on America’s technology manufacturers and developers:private and public companies
Corpfin Business information servives covering global mergers, acquisitions and venture capital transactions.
Culivate Interactive.
A pan-European web magazine for the information
professional, funded under the European Commission's Digital Heritage and
Cultural Content (DIGICULT) programme. It is aimed at the European cultural
heritage community including IT staff, information professionals,
researchers, managers, policy makers, libraries, museums, archives,
galleries and non-profit making organisations.
Current Cites. An annotated monthly bibliography on information technology. See also LIS journals.
Current Drugs. Provides intelligence on the pharmaceutical, biotechnological and agrochemical industries. Includes access to the updated version of the Investigational Drugs Database IDgb. See also Adis International.
