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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 08:28:02 -0500
From: HelenJane Armstrong <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: FW: Geobase problem
 
 
 
I thought this might be of interest to some of you who do not monitor the
GEONET-L listserver.
HelenJane Armstrong, University of Florida Map & Imagery Library.
 
 
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> From: Peter Brueggeman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Saturday, March 06, 1999 11:17 AM
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> Subject: Geobase problem
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> I've just discovered a rather nasty problem with the online version
> of GEOBASE available from OCLC through FirstSearch. Seems there is
> not a single record in the database dated later than 1997. According
> to OCLC, Elsevier changed the format of their data some time ago, and
> the latest version of FirstSearch isn't able to read it. They are
> releasing FirstSearch 5.0 sometime later this year, and that should
> remedy the situation.
>
> Apparently OCLC was aware of the problem, but hadn't notified their
> subscribers. We've asked them to put some sort of information on
> their GEOBASE page in FirstSearch notifying users of the situation,
> but so far they've just changed "1980 to present" to "1980 ..."
>
> I don't know if GEOBASE is available online through other vendors, or
> whether this would effect them. And I'm not sure what other databases
> are produced by Elsevier. But anybody dealing with Elsevier databases
> online should probably investigate further.
>
> Elizabeth
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