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- I'm a little under the weather so I'm sending this from home.
- That's the amazing thing about networkinig--this entire
- course could be transacted from the comfort of my bedroom.
-
- NAVIGATING THE INTERNET: AN INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP
- Richard J. Smith
- University of Southwestern Louisiana
- rs@usl.edu
-
- This week we'll use remote machines by "tenetting" across the U.S..
-
- CARL SYSTEM'S UNCOVER2
-
- The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries developed and CARL
- Systems Inc. provides Internet access to a host of services
- and databases. Access to many library systems, both within and
- without of CARL members, is possible through the CARL system. The
- Full text of Online Libraries and Choice book reviews,
- are accessible through CARL. Today we
- will concentrate on the CARL System's UnCover2 document delivery
- service. The following is a description from the CARL promotional
- handout. The workshop participants of Navigating the Internet: An
- Interactive workshop have been given a password to access and test
- this service. CARL's telnet Internet address is pac.carl.org, and
- the UnCover2 password, that will be valid for several weeks, is
- "navigate". Next session will demonstrate a CARL UnCover2 search
- session.
-
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- CARL Systems' UnCover database provides article level access
- to the journal collections of selected CARL System libraries.
- Begun in late 1988, UnCover is an example of CARL Systems' support
- for unique and powerful non-traditional services. In its first
- phase, UnCover made available article records taken from (and
- corresponding to) the tables of contents of all journals received
- by seven members of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries.
- By fall of 1991, the database encompassed 10,600 unique
- multidisciplinary journals. It can be augmented by other
- institutions to reflect their special collections so this is
- certainly not an upper limit. Article citations, taken from the
- tables of contents of each issue, are entered into the database,
- along with descriptive information or abstracts appearing on the
- contents page. The searcher can retrieve articles on any topic of
- interest, or "recreate" the table of contents of specific journals.
-
- Thus UnCover provides a "user-driven" current awareness service
- accessible in the comfort of the users home or office, or in any
- CARL System library.
-
- The database in continually updated when it was
- received or when it is expected in the library.
-
- There are two ways to approach UnCover. First, the user may
- search the database for a particular journal title, which gives
- the chance to examine the issue information for the title he
- selects. From the issue screen, he can select an individual issue
- and look at its recreated table of contents. From here, he can
- take the final step, which is to look at the article level record.
-
- (This approach is good for the user who has specific titles which
- he follows, enabling him to browse the contents that interest him.)
-
- The other approach, a key word search on a subject of interest,
- retrieves all the articles on the subject that appear in any of the
-
- journals in UnCover.
-
- UnCover2 introduces an important new service to UnCover:
- document delivery. UnCover2 makes use of optical scanning
- technology, disk storage, and telefacsimile delivery to supply
- copies of articles from UnCover within 24 hours, and often much
- sooner. Copyright royalties are carefully tracked and paid to
- publishers. Fees can be conveniently charged to any valid VISA or
- MasterCharge card, or deposit accounts can be set up for libraries,
- departments, or individual users.
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-
- The next session will provide a sample search of UnCover2; however,
- only by telneting to CARL and using the system will the full value
- of such a service be apparent.
-
-
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- Navigating the Internet: An Interactive Workshop
- Copyright (C) 1992 by Richard J. Smith, All Rights Reserved.
- Permission granted for individual usage.
-