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> I have saved some of the earlier discussion on the merits of BHA
> on cd. However, does anyone have any experience with BHA on
> Questel/Francis, and which is the better deal, financially
> speaking?
>
> I would prefer BHA on cd, particularly since it can be networked
> widely at no extra charge, but in our situation, we don't have
> room on our networked pc's (c. 12 workstations, that have many
> high use cd's like Eric and Psychlit, etc.), which means that BHA
> would compete with other single products on a standalone
> workstation in a general reference area, and our users would also
> not have remote access. By comparison, we have purchased a
> limited number of searches on Artabstracts via the OCLC package,
> and this can be accessed via the introductory screen of our
> online catalog (Clavis, a Sirsi unicorn system) by student ID and
> password. So far, this has not been used heavily, and the wide
> availability makes it attractive. If it becomes heavily used, we
> would probably cancel the print version to make the online
> version more affordable.
>
> Does anyone have any figures for BHA searches on Francis, how
many searches they average, and what their costs are?
> Any advice will be appreciated.
>
> Kathy Zimon
>
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