• Business & Management Practices, by Responsive Database Services, focuses on practical business management in the for-profit, not-for-profit and nonprofit worlds. Content emphasizes functions and issues.

• Alt-HealthWatch, by SoftLine Information, Inc., is a full-text and image database that focuses on complementary and alternative approaches to health. It includes peer-reviewed journals, reports, proceedings, association and issue-oriented newsletters, professional publications, consumer magazines, pamphlets and reference materials, many unique to this database.

SilverPlatter Offers New Wilson Databases

• Wilson Biographies Plus provides in-depth profiles on historical figures, from antiquity to the present, from some 4,000 serials. Updates are monthly. BCR's price is $921 compared with $945 list price.

• Wilson Biographies Illustrated includes biographical information from Wilson Biographies Plus with links to photographs. The price is not yet available.

• Wilson Biographies Plus/Illustrated contains both links to current full-text data and photographs. The price is not yet available.

• Wilson OmniFile V: Full Text covers business, humanities, science and social studies journals, Readers' Guide Abstracts and core journals in diverse disciplines such as art, architecture, engineering, library and information sciences, pure and applied sciences and more. Coverage is 1994 to the present with indexing back to August 1982. Updates are daily. BCR's price is $7,512, compared to $7,705 list price.

• Wilson's Short Story Index Electronic Edition will soon be available from SilverPlatter Information via the Internet and CD-ROM. The database features more than 65,000 entries for short stories, written or translated into English, published in collections and periodicals. Users will also find the full text of nearly 1,000 stories. Coverage is 1984 through 1998. BCR's price is $487.