Searching LISA on the SilverPlatter CD‐ROM system Available to Purchase

Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA) became available on CD‐ROM in May 1987. Officially, the database consists of a complete file of LISA, from its launch in January 1969 to December 1986 but a further 3 months' data have been added to compensate for production delays and consequently the file is current to March 1987. The CD‐ROM contains over 82,000 references to the literature of librarianship, information science and related subjects and roughly corresponds to the DIALOG and ORBIT files although the latter are more current. It is planned to update the file annually, but changes in production economics might allow a more frequent service in future. The following does not pretend to be an exhaustive account of the general features of the SilverPlatter system since this is given an excellent treatment in their own manual: Getting Started.