The Foreign Traders Directory, also known as the Export Connection searches for foreign trade contracts awarded by the US government to companies worldwide. The CD-ROM version of the American Geological Institute's geoscience database containing over 1.5 million records. Has coverage of North America since 1785, and other areas of the world since 1933. Historical Abstracts on Disk Covers the world's scholarly literature in history with abstracts of journal articles and citations to books and dissertations on the history of the world, excluding US and Canada from 1450 to the present. NTDB National Trade Databank Searches recent trade promotions, how-to and international economics data, covering over 1,000,000 documents.
Users can access country marketing research reports by commodity or industry.
The CD-ROM version of the famous OED, a 20 volume reference work on the origins of words in the English language. The number of simultaneous users is limited, so you may not get connected on your first try. An advantage of this method is you can use a CSUnet node at a Cal State that is possibly closer to your home and thus save on long distance charges. Among the many information resources on the Internet are guides to the Internet itself. Many of these guides are included in the Clearinghouse for Subject-oriented Internet Resource Guides, which is located on a Gopher at the University of Michigan.