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T -- PUBLICATION SERVICES UTILIZING AN EXISTING DATABASE OF ALL USGS PUBLICATIONS WORLDWIDE SINCE 1880 SOL 98HQSS1000 DUE 040698 POC Ann Liberatore (contact) Margaret S. Broadwater (CO) 648-7484 17. The U.S. Geological Survey has a requirement for publication services (research, compilation, verification, key boarding, editing, and proofing) to produce: (1) a catalog entitled "New Publications of the U.S. Geological" in a monthly, electronic version linked to the USGS home page and in a quarterly paper version without indexes; (2) an annual supplement entitled "Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey, (year)," in an electronic version linked to the USGS home page and in a paper version with subject and author indexes; and (3) an online data base consisting of all reports by USGS authors from 1880 to the present, fully searchable and linked to the USGS home page. These services require the use of a comprehensive data base of worldwide earth-science literature covering all such information from 1880 to the present, updated by professional scientific bibliographers and indexing staff, comprised of geologists and geophysicists, on a daily basis as publications worldwide are released or become available. The data base must include all U.S. Geological Survey publications (numbering more than 100,000 reports) from the first report in 1880 to those released through the current month in which an order is placed under the proposed contract, necessary to produce items (1) through (3) above. Most Catalogs, in addition to listings of U.S. Geological Survey reports, must include additional comprehensive listings of about 1,500 Articles/Reports/Abstracts by USGS authors in non-USGS publications (journals/books) published annually in various publications throughout the world, including abstracts of symposiums, meetings, and proceedings. IMPORTANT NOTE: The USGS shall not fund the recreation of a database as described above. All interested contractors must possess access to the full required database of more than 100,000 USGS publications with index, and growing at about 5,000 publications annually. Anticipated contractual period of performance shall be for one year with four optional years. Requests for Solicitation No. 98HQSS1000 shall be in writing and may be forwarded via regular mail; or, facsimile to (703) 648-7901 (telephone confirmation is recommended). Telephone requests will not be honored. ***** (0035)

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