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RR 2003/288 Fulltext Sources Online
Editor-In-chief Mary B. Glose Information Today, Inc. Medford, NJ URL: http://www.fso-onlIne.corn 2003 to date Single individual subscriptions start at $249, a single-site subscription with multiple users ranges In price from $448 to $1,995 Last visited March 2003
Keywords Directories, Journal publishing, Electronic publishing
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120310490354
Fulltext Sources Online (FSO) is a directory of over 18,000 publications: magazines, journals, newspapers, newsletters, newswires, and transcripts that are accessible online in full text from over 25 aggregator databases. Published and produced by Information Today, FSO is available for subscription in both print and Web-based versions. The print directory is produced twice a year, in January and July, while the online version is updated weekly. Information Today offers many different subscription options for its online directory, as further detailed above. A site license is also available for in-house use of an alternative product version called FSO/e. However, this is not a viable option for most libraries, since delivery of this is via e-mail of zipped files in a comma-delimited ASCII file format and requires import into spreadsheet or database management software.
FSO's selection of aggregators and the...