Searching CD‐ROM databases for non‐English‐speaking users Available to Purchase

Describes how access to English‐language information by non‐English‐speaking students and faculty at a Middle Eastern university is being facilitated by making available a variety of machine‐readable sources, particularly CD‐ROM, and how not only searching of these sources but also use of the information retrieved are made possible by several means including: the provision by faculty and library staff of translations into English of information requests made in Arabic; the publication of bilingual dictionaries covering a wide range of scientific, technological and other disciplines; and the recent development, by other institutions, of a number of online, multilingual databases covering computer terms and a wide range of science and technology fields, accessible via Gulfnet and the Internet. Anticipates the development of an all‐sources database accessible through all public search‐and‐retrieval terminals.