"FACTS.com brings together
complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest since
1950 and selected content from six other core reference databases
to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of
the last 50+ years.
FACTS.com also delivers in-depth features on
"Historic Events" drawn from the 60-year Facts On File
archive.
FACTS.com comes "highly recommended"
by Library Journal (June 15, 1999), The Book Report (September
1999), Multimedia Schools (September/October 1999) and Reference
Books Bulletin (October 1, 1999).
The six databases from which content has been selected are
Issues and Controversies On File
Today's Science On File
Editorials On File
Reuters On-Line News Service
The World Almanac and Book of Facts. The World Almanac
Encyclopedia (Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia)
Full content of four of these databases--Issues and
Controversies On File, Today's Science On File, The World Almanac
and Book of Facts, and The World Almanac Encyclopedia--is
available on other modules at FACTS.com.
FACTS.com also delivers additional special features
including maps, photographs, historic documents, and overviews of
key issues, newsmakers and events since 1950.
FACTS.com connects all the relevant material in the
database using approximately half a million internal hyperlinks.
FACTS.com is updated every week. In addition,
headline news stories from Reuters are updated every hour."
-Facts.com