Access 1998Chadwyck-Healey, Inc.Stephen Rhind-Tutt, President

October, 1998

Publisher’s perspective

• Role of librarians is increasingly important• Growth in electronic resources makes it so• Editorial - choosing the best quality material• “Human” Indexing • 2 Examples:

• Literature Online• Digital National Security Archive

Master Index

Literary Databases

Dictionaries

Journals

Web Index

Bibliographies

Reference

• 350,000 Texts• 23,000 Web Pages• 7,000 Authors• 12,000 Volumes• 30 Databases• 3 Bibliographies• 1 Dictionary• 1 Encyclopedias• 1.3 million references

What is it ?

New this year alone...

• Early American Fiction 1790-1851 1/99• 20th Century African American Poetry10/98• 19th Century Fiction - Available• 20th Century American Poetry - Available• Early American Drama 1714-1900 5/99• Literary Theory 5/99• Author Archive: W.B. Yeats• Author Archive: Emily Dickinson• ABELL - 1920-1996 - Available • Literary Journals Full-Text - 4/99

Get me the primary works of all authors in English Literature...

“I don’t care who publishes them, but they must be high quality.”“I don’t want to wade through lots of screens”“I’d like them in the same format”

and...

“I don’t want to pay a lot for them”

Problem A:

• Basic Bibliography to be created for all major worksUnderway...

• Controlled vocabularies defined and applied 10,000 terms...

• Each work needs to be dated, indexed350,000 texts so far…20,000 on the Web

• Links to proprietary sites, without no business arrangementLicense to Gale’s Biography site agreed...

Solution A:

Problem B:

“How common are metaphors of color in Wallace Stevens’ Poetry - as in The Man with the Blue Guitar ?”

“Was he the first to use this metaphor ?”“Did others use the metaphor after him ?”“Are metaphors of color more frequent in African American verse ?”

and...

“I don’t want to pay a lot to find out”

Problem B:

• Analyze Primary Works• Word frequency• Phrase and linguistic analysis

• Link author details to primary texts• Search by date of birth, death, birthplace, gender, ethnicity • Search by word or phrase • Or by any combination

Solution B:

Pricing...

• Lion - Poetry Collection US $1,000 - US $8,800

• Lion - Complete US $4,000 - US $18,000

• Price increases kept to inflation• Size of file growing by 50,000 texts per year• Discounts for purchases

• Date• Document Type• Destination• Signatory• Addressee• Corporate Origin• Multiple subject

headings• Index phrases• Individuals named• Location of original

• Introductions• Biographies• Glossary • Chronology• Photographs• Links

• 12 Major collections of declassified primary documents

• 300,000 documents in all• “A state-of-the-art index to history”

Washington Journalism Review

• Exciting, challenging new perspectives• Two new collections added per year

$4,200 per collection purchase$7,500 annual subscription to all collections$700 single collection annual subscriptionDiscounts for lower book budgets

Afghanistan 1973-1990The Berlin Crisis 1958-1962

The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962El Salvador 1977-1984

Iran 1977-1980The Iran Contra AffairNicaragua 1978-1990

The Philippines, 1965-1986South Africa, 1962-1989

The U.S. Intelligence Community1947-1989

Military Uses of Space, 1945-1991Nuclear Non-Proliferation, 1945-1990

12 Major Collections

Integrated Humanities Resources...

• Function specific indexing, manually created with software assistance• Applied to all relevant, quality resources

• CH texts• Texts freely available on the Web• Proprietary texts offered by other vendors

• The advantage of stasis !

Historical Newspapers Online

• 3 Major Newspaper Indexes• Official Index to the London Times - 1906-1980• Palmer’s Index to the London Times - 1795-1905• The Historical Index to the New York Times - 1851-1920

• Single source, authoritative records of history• Can be used as indexes for other papers• Breadth of coverage• Eliminate difficulties of paper searching

• Almost 900 uncumulated volumes can be searched in seconds• 12.5 million records in Official Index to Times alone

• Available on Magnetic tape or on the Web and….

• Palmer’s Full Image- 1795-1870