The firstBASE web pages and database are now in place.

THANK YOU to those organisations and individuals who have contributed new references on:

• Pharmacy
• Religion
• Optometry
• Freemasonry

There are also significant numbers of references for these firstBASE subject headings:

• Customs and Cultural Traditions
• All food and drink-related subject headings
• Death, Burial and Commemoration
• Laundering
• Sex
• All clothing-related subject headings
• Games
• All health and health service related subject headings

There are bibliographic references entered in many other subjects. Try using the free text search in your specialist area.

To make it easy to see what is new on firstBASE, this list will be updated as soon as new data has been entered. FirstBASE will be updated regularly between now and July and, from July, on a quarterly basis.