6.0206 Rs: OED2; CETEDOC; CDs in General (5/79)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 24 Aug 1992 15:44:30 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0206. Monday, 24 Aug 1992.


(1) Date: Wed, 19 AUG 92 16:56:54 BST (20 lines)
From: RGLYNN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK
Subject: OED2 on CD-ROM

(2) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 19:49:21 CST (13 lines)
From: (James Marchand) <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: OED2

(3) Date: 17 Aug 92 21:41:32 EST (11 lines)
From: James O'Donnell
<JODONNEL@PENNSAS.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: 6.0199 Rs: OED; CETEDOC; CALL; Guys

(4) Date: 18 Aug 1992 11:50:35 EST (19 lines)
From: wilm@legacy.Calvin.EDU
Subject: Re: 6.0199 R: CETEDOC

(5) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 12:49:42 CST (16 lines)
From: (James Marchand) <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: OED2 on CD-ROM

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Date: Wed, 19 AUG 92 16:56:54 BST
From: RGLYNN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK
Subject: OED2 on CD-ROM


I have just seen the query on the availability of OED on CD-ROM
(I've been out of the office for a week), so here it is straight
from the horse's mouth:

The Second Edition of the OED on CD-ROM was published in June in
the single-user version (the network version is about to be beta-
tested and should be available at the end of September). It costs
495 pounds or 895 US dollars. To get your detailed brochure contact
my colleague here Janet Caldwell (email OUPJSC, same address as mine)
or ring Royalynn O'Connor at our New York office (212-670-7300).

Ruth Glynn
CD-ROM Project Manager
Electronic Publishing
Oxford University Press
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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 19:49:21 CST
From: (James Marchand) <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: OED2

I just wanted to mention that the last issue of BYTE contains a review of
OED2 on CD-ROM. The review is useless, but the info that Oxford is now
selling it for $850.00 is welcome, since that means that the price is
coming down and that the street price will be somewhat less. It is a
splendid instrument, and so much better than our online version which has
overlaps and no fonts. I should imagine, however, that most universities
have it online in some form, and for only occasional use, one would prefer
using that to an outlay of $800 + and having to contend with Windows.
Jim Marchand
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Date: 17 Aug 92 21:41:32 EST
From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: 6.0199 Rs: OED; CETEDOC; CALL; Guys (7/103)

My friend Owen Cramer has confused the benevolent gnomes of Louvain and
CETEDOC (selling price, $3000 or so, second and later copies to the same
institution at half price) with the *other* gnomes of Chadwyck-Healey, who
charge $60,000 for something that doesn't quite exist yet.

Jim O'Donnell
Classics, U. of Penn.
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Date: 18 Aug 1992 11:50:35 EST
From: wilm@legacy.Calvin.EDU
Subject: Re: 6.0199 R: CETEDOC (7/103)

I believe that Owen Cramer was incorrect in quoting the price of the CETEDOC
cd-rom as
around $60,000. He was thinking of the fabulously expensive Chadwyk-Healey
cd-rom of
Migne; the CETEDOC cd is "only" around $3,000, and individual scholars whose
institutions
acquire the cd for the full price may buy their own copy for half-price. We
have it here and
are very pleased with it. Now if I can only find that rich uncle of mine....
===
Mark F. Williams Internet: WILM@calvin.edu
Classical Languages Voice: (616) 957-6293
Calvin College FAX: (616) 957-8551
Grand Rapids, Michigan
USA 49546
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 12:49:42 CST
From: (James Marchand) <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: OED2 on CD-ROM

A good source for most PC CD-ROMs is the Bureau of Electronic Publishing,
141 New lRoad, Parsippany, NJ 07054. 1-800-828-4766. They offer the OED
for $895. The OED on CD-ROM which I have works only with Windows and is
a little cranky to install, but it is great. You can install all the fonts
and not have garbage on your screen. Their manual is not always so good,
so I got also The Research Potential of the Electronic OED2 Database at
the University of Waterloo: a Guide for Scholars, by Donna Lee Berg, from
the UW Centre for the New OED. This is probably on line somewhere. On what
databases are available on CD-ROM, I had on HUMANIST somewhere a bibliography
of CD-ROM for the humanist. If there were any interest I could update it,
the list-owners willing.
Jim Marchand