Message-ID: <41863E4893@els.lowe.org> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 12:24:54 EST From: Tim Dixon <mailto:tim@ELS.LOWE.ORG> Subject: ABI/INFORM FOR FREE! To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
This statement may have caught your attention in the recent EWEB announcement posted to this listserve.The announcement referred to the smallbizNet BBS located at the Edward Lowe Foundation. The smallbizNet BBS features both UMI PowerPages and searching facility of the American Business Disk for its subscribers. The service is intended to offer small business owners, entrepreneurs, and SOHO workers low cost access to databases, the Internet, and broadcast fax capabilities. Accounts start at $120.00 per year.
smallbizNet BBS was never intended to offer free searching of ABI-INFORM. As a gesture of goodwill, we allowed potential "new"users to browse and explore the system before subscribing. We now limit access to the CD-ROM databases to smallbizNet BBS subscribers only.
If you have any questions about the Foundation's services please contact me.
Tim Dixon, M.L.S. Manager of Information Services Edward Lowe Foundation P.O. Box 8 Cassopolis, MI 49031-0008 (616) 445-4265 / Fax (616) 445-4350
smallbizNet-- http://www.lowe.org/