Message-Id: <mailto:199410191719.MAA15563@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 10:16:53 -0700 From: JEANNE BROWN <mailto:jeanneb@NEVADA.EDU> Subject: CD-ROMs To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@ARIZVM1.BITNET>
Below is my "wish list" of CDs in architecture, landscape, etc. Notations are taken from each publisher's information. It does not have the complete info (such as pub's phone number), but for whatever it is worth, here it is!Jeanne Brown, Architecture Studies Librarian University of Nevada, Las Vegas mailto:jeanneb@nevada.edu
CD-ROMS
Avery Index to Periodical Literature 1979- . $995, annual update $495.
G.K. Hall
Contemporary Architects and Designers. $105 per architect.
Mario Botta first in the series. CD Interactive.
ASHRAE Database of Publications and Complete Standards Set. $1042
The Great Buildings Collection. $300
Interactive multimedia encyclopedia of over 600 buildings. Van Nostrand Reinhold.
Iconda (Silver Platter CD). $950 annual subscription, or $1045 with quarterly updates.
250,000 bibliographic references with abstracts to articles published worldwide in 800 journals, as well as books, conference proceedings, research reports, business reports, theses and other non-conventional literature. Information is contributed to the database by professional organizations in 25 countries. Topics covered include design and CAD, construction, materials testing, structural engineering, maintenance and restoration, foundation engineering, building physics, municipal planning and development, energy saving, interior design, finance and management, construction equipment and methods. Projects cover all forms of building and civil engineering construction and a wide range of materials. Includes The Construction Index, an annotated index to over 45 leading construction industry journals, including ENR, Architecture Concrete Construction, The Magazine of Masonry Construction, Performance of Constructed Facilities, and the ASHRAE journal. Produced by Silver Platter.
Lighting Standards (IESNA) $950, plus annual updates
Full-text of all standards published by IESNA: Lighting Handbook, Committee Reports, Energy Management Services, Measurement and Testing Guides, and Recommended Practices. Also includes the Worldwide Standards Index.
Construction Criteria Base. $1,000 annual fee.
Published by the National Institute of Building Sciences, and containing 2,000 megabytes of information on four disks, the CCB includes virtually all Federal agency publications on construction, such as guide specifications from the Corps of Engineers, Naval Facilities Command, GSA, NASA, Dept of Veterans' Affairs; Federal construction cost-estimating systems; design guidelines; CAD Libraries, engineering manuals; OSHA regulations; Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board Uniform Accessibility Standards; EPA regulations, and more. Also includes construction documents from the private sector, including reference standards from nearly 100 construction trade associations. An encyclopedia of references and standards.
Design Automation Library (CD). $1,499
Provides the design automation professional with research and reference tools that will immeasurably improve both the speed and accuracy of literature searches. Contains full text of the papers as well as images of each of the more than 37,000 pages that appeared in key electronic design conference proceedings. Users can see exact reproductions of original pages. One disc contains the full text, without page images, of all papers in the DALibrary. DALibrary contains the complete text of the following conference proceedings volumes and periodicals: Design Automation Conference (DAC), 1964-90; European Design Automation Conference (EDAC), 1990; International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 1983-1990; International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD),1983-1990; Transactions on Computer- Aided Design (TrCAD), 1982-1990; SIGDA Newsletter (as page images only), 1970-1990; Twenty-five Years of Electronic Design Automation, 1988.
Citis CD-Rom. $2,015
Contains two databases. International Civil Engineering Abstracts (ICEA), abstracts articles from engineering journals worldwide from 1972 to date. Software Abstracts for Engineers (SAFE) is the largest database of computer programs for the construction industry and related fields, available anywhere. In addition this database includes abstracts of articles on computer applications. Also includes increased coverage of all British Standards relating to the construction industry.
TLN-HOTEL (CD). $400 initial subscription $300 annual renewal
Contains in-depth coverage of over 22,000 hotels in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Southeast Asia. Features data search on a variety of fields including: points of interest, meeting facilities, square feet and capacity of largest meeting room, total hotel capacity, number of rooms, rates, hotel facilities and services (e.g room service, health club, house security, guest fax, etc.), location, ZIP code, street name, telephone number or prefixes. Contains hundreds of full color photographs and six screens of information per individual hotel member.
Compiled by Jeanne Brown, Architecture Studies Librarian 11/30/93, rev. 8/94 coll devt:archwish