CD‐ROM at King's College Library: use and evaluation of OCLC's Search CD450

Abstract

OCLC produces a number of products for CD‐ROM, derived variously from public domain databases in the US, such as ERIC, AGRICOLA and NTIS, and from subsets of its own massive 18,500,000 record Union Catalog. The initial set covered three main subject areas: Education; Agriculture; and Science and Technology. The CD‐products are referrred to as Search CD450 and are intended to support reference work and access to subject information. In addition, a CD‐ROM based cataloguing product has been developed: its suitability in the UK and Europe is currently being evaluated by OCLC Europe. Towards the end of 1987, OCLC set up an evaluation project at King's College Library, University of London, to assess the ERIC databases produced as part of the Search CD450 products. This article describes the broad findings of that project together with the facilities offered by CD450.

Citation

Pope, C. and Machiraju, A. (1988), "CD‐ROM at King's College Library: use and evaluation of OCLC's Search CD450", VINE, Vol. 18 No. 2, pp. 18-24. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb060020