It has been our goal for a long time to have Facts On File available on FirstSearch because so many of our customers prefer FirstSearch for database access. Digest is now available on the OCLC FirstSearch service. Facts On File editors use more than 100 of the world's top news sources to create original, concise, authoritative stories written specifically for reference. The 70,000-record database contains the complete full text of Facts On File since 1980.
Hypertext linking allows developments to be traced back in time through see also references.
Half a dozen state consortia have already expressed interest in this delivery. It provides the authoritative who, what and when for librarians as well as end users. Facts On File News Services is no longer connected with Facts On File Inc., the book and CD-ROM publishers.