In response to requests from FirstSearch users, OCLC FirstSearch has expanded linking options from various external sources directly to individual articles in its FirstSearch service. This added flexibility is particularly valuable to academic institutions that wish to connect students to full-text articles from a professor's Web course syllabus, reading lists or electronic reserve lists on a library's Web site.
Users have the ability to directly access full-text content regardless of their physical location.
Direct article access is available to libraries that provide automatic log-on access to FirstSearch via IP address recognition. There is no separate charge for this feature, which does not involve using any of the library's FirstSearch ports nor opening an active FirstSearch session. Grolier Introduces Lands and Peoples Online Grolier Educational has introduced a new online database that is based on its Lands and Peoples six-volume encyclopedia of countries, cultures and geography. A weekly spotlight on three current events stories and a Lesson Plan for some. An interactive feature combining and associating maps, flags and fact boxes.