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Public-Access Computer Systems News
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August 27, 1990 Volume 1, Number 8 ISSN 1050-6004
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Editors: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. (LIB3@UHUPVM1) and Dana Rooks.
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Issued on an irregular basis by University Libraries,
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University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091.
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UNCOVER GATEWAY ESTABLISHED IN MINNESOTA
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The Minnesota State University System's Project for Automated
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Library Systems (MSUS/PALS) has announced an agreement with CARL
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Systems, Inc. to establish a Gateway to provide access to CARL
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System's UnCover database. UnCover provides access to nearly one
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million journal articles, from over 9,500 individual titles with
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access current within 24 hours of issue receipt. The agreement
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will make UnCover available to the network of 44 Minnesota state
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universities, community colleges, private colleges and State
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Agency library members of MSUS/PALS.
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For information about MSUS/PALS, contact Dale Carrison, MSUS/PALS
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Office, Mankato State University, Box 19, Memorial Library,
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Mankato, MN 56001 (507-389-5062). For information about CARL
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Systems and UnCover contact Rebecca Lenzini, CARL, 777 Grant
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Street, Suite 306, Denver, CO 80203 (303-861-5319).
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IAC DATABASE ACCESS EXTENDED TO CARL USERS OUTSIDE COLORADO
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The Information Access Company and CARL Systems, Inc. have
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reached an agreement which allows other CARL System users or
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Gateway participants with proper license agreements to access any
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IAC databases on the CARL System. Currently available through
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the CARL System's Public Access Catalog are Magazine Index (TM)
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and Trade & Industry Index (TM). Linked to these databases are
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online full-text articles from IAC's Magazine ASAP (TM) and Trade
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& Industry ASAP (TM). Users of the CARL System can search the
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online indexes, locate articles of interest, and then order those
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articles to be delivered, either online to the screen or offline
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through telefacsimile.
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Users are able to charge their document delivery orders using
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VISA or MasterCard numbers, which are entered online to the CARL
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System and validated immediately through a major Denver bank.
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Access to the IAC databases have been available to Colorado users
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since April of this year. This recent agreement allows both
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organizations to extend this access beyond Colorado, providing
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appropriate system usage and database license agreements have
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been reached.
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For more information about the IAC databases and licensing
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agreements, contact Todd Miller at IAC, 362 Lakeside Drive,
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Foster City, CA 94404 (415-378-5200). For more information about
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the CARL System, contact Rebecca Lenzini at CARL Systems, 777
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Grant, Suite 306, Denver, CO 80203 (303-861-5319).
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COMPACT CAMBRIDGE ANNOUNCES NEW PRODUCTS
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Compact Cambridge has announced, the availability of four new CD-
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ROM databases:
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(1) PolTox links seven pollution and toxicology databases
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covering ten years of data with quarterly updates.
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(2) IPA: International Pharmaceutical Abstracts is a compendium
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of international pharmaceutical literature dating back to 1970.
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Updated quarterly.
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(3) The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature
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(CINAHL) focuses on biomedical literature relevant to nursing and
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allied health related issues. The database is updated monthly
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and includes a thesaurus and backfiles to 1983.
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(4) Health covers a ten-year period and provides access to more
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than 350,000 records on non-clinical aspects of health care
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delivery. Quarterly updates.
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Compact Cambridge has also announced an online connection to
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Grateful Med and BRS which offers online updating of Compact
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Cambridge searches. Compact Cambridge MEDLINE users will be able
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to construct a search on CD-ROM, connect automatically to an
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online service, and retrieve materials without changing search
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languages. The new enhancement is expected to be available later
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this year. For additional information call 1-800-843-7751 within
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the United States and Canada.
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Copyright (C) 1990 by the University Libraries, University of
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Houston. All rights reserved.
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Copying is permitted for noncommercial use by computerized
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bulletin board/conference systems, individual scholars, and
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libraries. Libraries are authorized to add the journal to their
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collections at no cost. This message must appear on copied
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material. All commercial use requires permission.
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