[Sigia-l] pre-written controlled vocabs?

[karl fast]

> A shot in the dark: Dialog has a database called ERIC, especially for
> Education. Don't know if they sell the ERIC *thesaurus* or not.

The ERIC thesaurus is not from DIALOG, it's from...well, ERIC--the
Educationl Resources Information Center. DIALOG simply licenses the
ERIC database (along with bazillion others).

ERIC provides search/browse access to the thesaurus online, and I
know that you can buy a printed copy. I would assume you can get an
electronic version but I dunno if it's free or not.

  http://www.askeric.org/


I think that each of these major thesauri is available from
individual vendors. The INSPEC thesaurus (which covers physics,
electronics, computers and IT) is available from IEE in both printed
and electronic forms.

  http://www.iee.org/publish/support/inspec/document/thes/

For medical, you probably want MESH (download electronic or order
printed version)

  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html


Someone who knows more about commercially available thesauri can
correct me on this.  


--karl