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Many features have made the Composite Index for CRC Handbooks, 3rd Edition an important reference resource for your institution. Its comprehensive index system facilitates access to over 140,000 pages of scientific information in more than 300 CRC Handbooks, thereby saving researchers valuable time. The Composite Index on CD-ROM taps into the power of automation and streamlines the research process even further through its superior word search, word sorting, browsing, and output capabilities. Now, Composite Index for CRC Handbooks, 3rd Edition: 1991 Supplement is available. This supplement consists of a bound volume featuring 51 additional back-of-the-book indexes from CRC Handbooks covering the fields of physical science, life science, and engineering. These individual indexes have been merged to form one unified index that provides some 42,000 new index entries, which will help researchers find information from an additional 28,000 pages in CRC Handbooks. An updated CD-ROM disk (Version 1.1) is included with the bound volume. On the CD-ROM, the new index entries featured in the bound volume have been integrated with entries from the original Composite Index for CRC Handbooks, 3rd Edition, providing a single source for automated searches. The software accompanying the CD-ROM has also been enhanced. The program's book decoding feature is improved, and an LOC field is now included on the bibliographic screen for libraries to provide their call numbers (or other information) using up to 50 characters. A separate program (included with the software) enables you to manually type call numbers into the LOC field. With 42,000 new index entries and exciting enhancements to the CD-ROM program, keep your Composite Index for CRC Handbooks, 3rd Edition up-to-date by purchasing the 1991 Supplement today.