Access Russia

OCLC symbol A4R
NACN :102676

Access Russia, based in the San Francisco bay area, is able to deliver almost any published document from any of the countries of the former Soviet Union, including newspaper and journal articles, books, conference proceedings, deposit documents, patents, dissertations, and standards. Access Russia also utilizes a number of Russian databases to obtain needed documents. By utilizing its own special machine translating system, it is able to provide translations of these documents into English.

E-Mail: arrussia@arussia.com
URL: http://www.arussia.com

Ask*IEEE (currently inactive)

OCLC symbol A8K
NACN :103176

Ask*IEEE provides copies of documents from the IEEE/IEE/INSPEC collection, which contains all IEEE conferences, and journals from the 1960s to the present, IEEE books, INSPECT-indexed material, and IEE-published materials from 1993 to the present.

E-Mail: askieee@ieee.org
URL: http://www.ieee.com

BLDSC: British Library Document Supply Centre

OCLC symbol BRI
NACN :20621

BLDSC holds more than 254,000 journal titles in most languages and subjects; 351,000 proceedings of conferences held worldwide; 4,000,000 reports in microform; 575,000 doctoral dissertations; and 3,000,000 books in English. Also holds a range of UK Government documents and is a depository library for European Community (EC) material. 89% of the 4 million requests each year are satisfied from stock.

E-Mail: dsc-customer-ervices@bl.uk
URL: http://www.bl.uk/dsc/

CISTI: Canada Institute for Scientific & Technical Information

OCLC symbol CAI
NACN :100245

CISTI's collection includes 55,000 different serial titles, as well as technical reports and translations. It receives 1,000 new items daily. CISTI's entire collection of monographs and serials is listed in WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) with holdings statements.

E-Mail: cisti.docdel@nrc.ca
URL: http://www.nrc.ca/cisti

CRL: Center for Research Libraries

OCLC symbol CRL
NACN :42895

CRL collects and stores rarely held library research materials. Its collection consists of more than 5 million items in many languages and subjects and includes newspapers and periodicals, state documents, Russian Academy of Science serials and monographs, foreign doctoral dissertations, archival materials, and textbooks.

URL: http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu

Danish Loan Centre

OCLC symbol EDA
NACN :92773

The Danish Loan Centre's collection consists of approximately 2 million books. It is a depository library for all Danish publications, and also hold a great deal of publications in the other Nordic languages. The Danish Loan Centre also holds 12,000 current periodicals covering all subjects. It has a complete collection of Danish newspapers most of which are available for loan on microfilm.

E-Mail: dabl@kumsb.dk

URL: http://www.sb/aau.dk

EBSCO Document Services

OCLC symbol DYI
NACN :97815

EBSCO Document Services can retrieve such items as journal issues and articles, industry brochures and reports, newspaper articles, book chapters, indices, abstracts, tables of contents, reference works, out-of-print works, books for purchase, documents for purchase, maps, government documents, industry reports, legal cases, codes & regulations, specs & standards, annual reports, 10Ks and 10Qs, proxy statements, theses, patents, technical reports, original published works, magnetic media, downloaded full-text database records, audio and video cassettes.

E-Mail: order@ebscodoc.com
URL: http://www.ebscodoc.com

EDRS: ERIC Document Reproduction Service

OCLC symbol EDR
NACN :9824

ERIC, the world's largest education database, is a veritable national education library, containing over 400,000 documents covering every educational-related topic. EDRS fulfills requests for ERIC documents dealing with virtually any topic within the field of education such as: technical and research reports, conference papers, government documents, curriculum planning and evaluation instruments, and other documentary materials acquired by the ERIC system. EDRS also provides cumulative microfiche indexes of ERIC documents, complete backfile collections of ERIC documents from 1966 through current monthly issue and subject-specific Clearinghouse collections of ERIC documents.

Facts OnLine

OCLC symbol ONF
NACN :97814

Facts OnLine works with a Russian counterpart, MITEK Research, to provide archival work, copying of articles, patents, books, specifications from Russian libraries and genealogical work. MITEK has research agreements with the following Russian information providers: Archive of National Economy, State Archive of Russian Federation, Archive of Ancient Acts, Diplomatic Archives, Moscow Archives, Military Archives, St. Petersburg's Archives, and other Archives of Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia and the Baltic States. Facts OnLine works with the following State Libraries: Russian

State Library, Patent State Library, State Medical Library, Saltykova-Zhedrina State Library of St. Petersburg.

E-Mail: petrakis@aol.com
URL: none available

ISI Document Solution

OCLC symbol TGA
NACN :9823

ISI Document Solutions (IDS) supplies actual journal pages or high-quality photocopies from over 7,000 journals in science, social science, and arts and humanities published in the past four years and the current year. It can supply articles indexed in any ISI product as well as many other sources.

E-Mail: ids@isinet.com
URL: http://www.isinet.com/prodserv/idsprod.html

InterLingua Linguistic Services, Inc.

OCLC symbol I#L
NACN :101227

InterLingua Linguistic Services, Inc., a California-based company, also has a Tokyo-based staff. Utilizing both staffs as well as a network of local sources, InterLingua specializes in retrieving documents from Japan. InterLingua retrieves patents, journal articles, gray literature and goverment documents from Japan. Most patents can be retrieved in two days and most journal articles take one week or less. InterLingua provides a translation service, known for its high-speed and precise-language capabilities, to translate science, technology and business documents and patents.

E-Mail: japanese@aol.com
URL: http://www.japanese-translation.com

LC: Library of Congress

OCLC symbol LCL
NACN :18501

In its role as the national library of last resort, the Library of Congress provides loans or photocopies of hard-to-find materials not reasonably available from other sources. Most materials from the Library of Congress are available for loan, with the following exceptions: journals (short articles are photocopied free of charge); genealogy and local history materials (generally LC Classes CS, CR, and F1-999); items available from the publisher; items printed before 1801; dissertations on film; and audio-visual materials.

E-mail: loanref@loc.gov
URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov

USDA, National Agricultural Library

OCLC symbol AGL
NACN :36251

National Agricultural Library accepts requests from libraries and other organizations in accordance with national and international interlibrary code and guidelines. National Agricultural Library should be viewed as a library of last resort except for other USDA libraries, federal libraries in the Washington DC metropolitan area, and foreign national libraries. The National Agricultural Library does not loan original material outside the United States.

E-Mail: lending@nal.usda.gov (for lending) or circinfo@nal.usda.gov (for circulation)
URL: http://www.nal.usda.gov

National Library of Canada

OCLC symbol NLD
NACN :78506

In its role as library of last resort, the National Library of Canada will loan, from its own collection, hard-to-find materials not reasonably available from any other source. If the National Library of Canada is unable to loan from its own collection, it will provide the requesting United States' library with Canadian library symbols (assigned by the National Library of Canada) that represent Canadian libraries which hold the item. The National Library of Canada is the legal depository for Canadian publications in all subject areas. In addition, it has substantial collections in the social sciences and humanities, especially the history of North America, Great Britain and France.

E-Mail: illser@nlc.-bnc.ca
URL: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca

NTIS: National Technical Information Service

OCLC symbol NTI
NACN :8498

NTIS is a unique federal agency within the Technology Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce; costs are not covered by tax-supported Congressional appropriations. NTIS is a self-supporting agency offering an enormous family of national and international information products and services to fulfill information needs. NTIS delivers government information to more than 60,000 customers annually. NTIS offers a broad range of information in different formats that is available no place else. Over 200 U.S. government agencies contribute about 10,000 documents per month to the NTIS collection. NTIS provides public access to the results of U.S. and foreign government-sponsored R&D and engineering activities and complete backup information in the form of technical reports for the government scientific, technical and engineering results it announces annually. Its collection of scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related data contains products in printed, electronic and multimedia format. Materials are available in a wide range of subjects with special emphasis on the best selling categories of business, health, and the environment.

E-Mail: orders@fedworld.gov or info@fedworld.gov
URL: http://www.fedworld.gov or http://www.ntis.gov

The Research Investment, Inc

OCLC symbol RSK

NACN :104111

The Research Investment provides published and unpublished materials on a global basis. Their unique niche enables them to provide the entire spectrum of requested literature - from the straightforward to the most elusive. Such literature includes: a-v materials; conference proceedings; court documents; dissertations and theses; foreign and domestic annual reports; foreign publications; Government documents, laws, regulations, and codes; Industry analyst' reports; journal and newspaper articles; legislative bills; manual; market research studies; newsletters; patents; press releases; product literature; public opinion polls; scientific and technical reports; SEC filings; standards and specifications; symposia papers, and translations. A proprietarty in-house database contatains the location of every document retrieved since 1972! Truly a "vendor of last resort."

E-Mail: orders@researchinvest.com
URL: http://www.researchinvest.com

UMI InfoStore

OCLC symbol UMI
NACN :40610

UMI InfoStore is one of the world's largest licensed supplier of article copies. The service can provide articles from most of the titles indexed in Applied Sciences and Technology Index, Biological and Agricultural Index, ABI/Inform, Current Index to journals in Education, Index Medicus (English language), Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, The Social Sciences Index, and other major indexes. UMI InfoStore provides 8 1/2" x 11" photocopies of periodical articles and conference papers. UMI InfoStore can also fill requests from outside its internal collection of 15,000 titles. A network of alliances and runners throughout the world allows them to locate virtually any existing document, such as technical reports, conference proceedings, patents, standards, and other materials.

E-Mail: ORDERS@INFOSTORE.COM
URL: http://www.umi.com/infostore