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COPYRIGHT 2001 American Library Association
State Geography. [Internet database]. 2001. ABC-CLIO, $499 [http://stategeography.abc-clio.com].
With these three titles designed for grades six through twelve, ABC-CLIO enters the online subscription market. Familiarity with the look and feel of such ABC-CLIO CD-ROM products as Exegy: Current County Profiles [RBB F 15 00] makes for an easy transition to the company's online environment. All three products have the same basic construction of a clean layout with tabs, buttons, and areas of the screen assigned to special features consistent across the product line.
The databases contain various kinds of materials: encyclopedia-type articles, abstracts, news items, images, quotes, bibliographies, audio and video clips, and more (but no magazine articles). American Government (AG) has more than 10,000 entries, including essays, maps, video clips, and so on, as well as other features. State Geography (SG) offers, among other items, 50 state overviews, biographies of all current governors and senators, images of state flags and symbols, and each state's constitution and latest State of the State address. World Geography (WG) has more than 20,000 encyclopedic entries plus...
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