The growing number of military technology CD-ROMs has recently been joined by Global Defence Information, a combination of DefenseNet and United States Naval Institute Military Database. DefenseNet contains abstracts of military related publications from 1986 to date while the USNI Military Database describes the armed forces in over 150 countries. It's produced by Teldan and costs GBP3,335 annually. The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 1992 editions will be on a single disk early 1993. Like the other quality British newspapers, it's distributed by Chadwyck-Healey.
Price is yet to be determined.
It costs USD850. This has recently been joined by Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts from the American Meteorological Society. The disk contains 130,000 references to the literature and translated abstracts from non-English papers. It contains 60 sets of historic climatic data on indicators such as clouds, solar irradiance, upper air temperature and greenhouse gases. It's published by Sony Electronic Publishing.