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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 17:39:42 CDT
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From: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <LIBPACS@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
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Subject: Public-Access Computer Systems News 5, no. 3 (1994)
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Public-Access Computer Systems News
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Volume 5, Number 3 (1994) ISSN 1050-6004
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Editors: Linda Thompson (LIB1J@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU) and Ann Thornton
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(AThornton@UH.EDU).
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Issued on an irregular basis by University Libraries, University
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of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091.
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CONTENTS
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Internet Book Shop Opens for Trade, 1
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New ERIC Monographs, 1
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Leading Immunology Journal to Go Online in 1995, 2
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Antiquarian Bookshop on the Internet, 3
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Chapman & Hall Purchases Online Journal of Current Clinical
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Trials, 4
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OCLC Electronic Journals Online to Offer Current Opinions
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Journals, 5
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INTERNET BOOK SHOP OPENS FOR TRADE
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A new service has been set up to allow you to browse/buy books
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online. It is totally free to users, and represents all of the
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information that book publishers would normally put into their
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catalogs.
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So far, Blackwell Publishers (Oxford, UK, and Cambridge, MA) have
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agreed to start the ball rolling, and their entire geography
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catalog has been mounted for you to look at. There are 120 books
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and journals dealing with ecology, pollution, land formations
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etc. If you would like to check it out, then access via WWW to
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URL : http://www.demon.co.uk/bookshop/
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NEW ERIC MONOGRAPHS
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Two new monographs which highlight current communications
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technologies and how they are affecting curriculum, the economy,
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and society have been published by the ERIC Clearinghouse on
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Information & Technology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New
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York. A brief overview of each monograph follows:
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o "An Educator's Guide to Electronic Networking: Creating
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Virtual Communities" by Barbara Kurshan and Marcia
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Harrington offers network novices an introduction to the
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Internet and the benefits of network resources, a comparison
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of 28 commercial and non-commercial service providers, and
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an extensive glossary of more than 200 common networking
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terms. This guide assists teachers and administrators in
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making informed decisions prior to implementing network
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technologies in their schools. 118 pp., 8.5" X 11", tables,
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glossary, $10 plus $2 shipping.
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o Christina Doyle's "Information Literacy in an Information
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Society: A Concept for the Information Age," recognizes the
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change in American society from an industrial economy to an
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economy based in services and information. This monograph
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encourages educators to prepare students for success in the
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new working environment by teaching them to access,
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evaluate, and use information from a variety of sources. 84
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pp., 5.5"x 8", $8 plus $2 shipping.
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If you would like to examine these publications, contact Sue
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Wurster, Editing Specialist/Marketing Assistant,
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swurster@ericir.syr.edu.
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LEADING IMMUNOLOGY JOURNAL TO GO ONLINE IN 1995
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Elsevier Science and OCLC will launch Immunology Today Online in
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January 1995 on OCLC's Electronic Journals Online (EJO) system.
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Immunology Today Online will join several other journals already
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available through EJO, including the Online Journal of Current
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Clinical Trials, Electronics Letters Online and the Online
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Journal of Knowledge Synthesis for Nursing.
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Immunology Today is the first of the high-profile science review
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magazines published by Elsevier Trends Journals to become
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available online. The launch is part of a series of strategic
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initiatives in electronic publishing to be taken by Elsevier
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Science.
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Immunology Today Online will build on the strengths of Immunology
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Today, the world's leading immunology review journal, offering
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scientists and students instant desktop access to the world of
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immunology through OCLC's highly intuitive graphical interface,
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Guidon.
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Immunology Today Online contains many new features complementary
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to the print version. The features include:
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o Users will be able to access current and past articles of
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interest with the browsable "Table of Contents" or
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sophisticated search and retrieval facilities, and comment
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on topics and controversies online.
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o Full hypertext functionality allows users to move through
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related articles at the click of a button.
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o Hypertext links to abstracts of cited papers, from the
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Excerpta Medica bibliographic database, will reduce time
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spent finding primary papers for further reading.
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o Articles from _Immunology Today_ will be supplemented with
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news items and an online "Product Finder" that will enable
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users to access relevant product information as they need
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it.
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o A "Bookstore" will provide information and ordering
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procedures for new books and journals.
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o Online "Job Trends" will list the latest vacancies for
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immunologists around the world.
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Selected subscribers to the print edition will be offered access
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to Immunology Today Online for a full year in return for
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providing detailed feedback to the publisher. OCLC's Electronic
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Journals Online offers fast publication; a graphical user
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interface that displays full-color figures, tables, and
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equations; immediate access to timely information available
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online seven days a week; access from the office, laboratory or
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library; and optimal searching capabilities. Other features
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include an extensive help system, toll-free telephone support and
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comprehensive user documentation.
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For more information contact Susan Gatell, Elsevier Trends
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Journals, +44 223 315961, s.gatell@elsevier.co.uk; or Andrea
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Keyhani, OCLC, +1 614 764 6474, andrea_keyhani@oclc.org.
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ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSHOP ON THE INTERNET
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Meyer Boswell Books, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has put
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a catalogue of its books on the Internet. The bookshop, which
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specializes exclusively in rare and scholarly law (including
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constitutional law), has been in business since 1979, and is a
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member of the American Association of Antiquarian Booksellers.
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Its catalogue consists of the approximately 6,000 books presently
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in its inventory, and is easily searchable by e-mail; orders for
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the books may also be placed.
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To receive a Help file which describes both how to search and how
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to order, send an e-mail message to rare-lawbooks@netcom.com. In
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the subject field put the word help, and likewise in the message
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field put the same word. Your message will thus read:
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To: rare-lawbooks@netcom.com
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Subject: help
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Message: help
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For those who would care to dive right in, here is an example of
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a basic but powerful search for every book we have in stock by or
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about Blackstone:
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To: rare-lawbooks@netcom.com
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Subject: search
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Message: search Blackstone
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Here is another example, this time of a basic subject search:
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To: rare-lawbooks@netcom.com
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Subject: search
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Message: search constitutional law
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After you have sent your e-mail message, we will send you an
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e-mail reply; this usually takes a few minutes (depending where
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you are). In the case of a search, you will receive back a list
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of those books which satisfy your search.
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Please also feel free to call or write:
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Meyer Boswell Books, Inc.
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2141 Mission Street
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San Francisco CA 94110
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415 255-6400
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FAX 415 255-6499
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CHAPMAN & HALL PURCHASES ONLINE JOURNAL OF CURRENT CLINICAL
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TRIALS
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Chapman & Hall has purchased the Online Journal of Current
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Clinical Trials from the American Association for the Advancement
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of Science (AAAS). Based in London since 1830, Chapman & Hall
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has become a major international scientific, technical and
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medical (STM) publisher owned by the International Thomson
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Publishing Group. Chapman & Hall established a North American
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presence in 1992 to develop books, journals and electronic
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products in science and medicine. Editorial, marketing and
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promotion responsibilities for the Online Journal of Current
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Clinical Trials will be executed from the New York office of
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Chapman & Hall.
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The Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials is distributed
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through the OCLC Electronic Journals Online service, which
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provides full-text searching, hypertext linking capabilities,
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related document linking, and access 23 hours each day to the
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journal via dial access or through the Internet. OCLC's Guidon
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interface software presents the full text of the journal,
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including figures, tables, and equations, in a quality that
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rivals the typeset page.
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The Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials is the first
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electronic product in Chapman & Hall's expanding journals program
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that includes American Journal of Therapeutics, Journal of
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Wilderness Medicine, Microcirculation, and Magnetic Resonance
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Imaging in Physics, Biology, and Medicine. Chapman & Hall plans
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to pursue more electronic publishing opportunities in the future.
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For subscription inquiries, call Dean Smith at 212-564-1060, ext.
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232. For editorial and production issues, call James Geronimo at
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212-564-1060, ext. 225. Chapman & Hall can be reached by fax at
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212-564-1505.
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For additional information, contact Nita Dean, 614-761-5002,
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nita_dean@oclc.org; or Dean Smith, 212-564-1060,
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ojcct@chaphall.com.
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OCLC ELECTRONIC JOURNALS ONLINE TO OFFER CURRENT OPINIONS
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JOURNALS
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Six Current Opinions journals in the biological sciences and 24
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Current Opinions journals in clinical medicine will be available
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electronically through the OCLC Electronic Journals Online
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service. The Current Opinions journals, from the Current Science
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Group, will be organized in two "clusters" for electronic
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delivery. Current Opinions in Biology, from Current Biology
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Ltd., and Current Opinions in Medicine, from Current Science
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Ltd., will be available in early 1995.
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The Current Opinions journals were developed out of the
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recognition that it is increasingly difficult for specialists and
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researchers to keep up to date with the expanding volume of
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information published in their respective subject areas. Current
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Opinions in Biology and Current Opinions in Medicine keep
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subscribers current by providing: the views of experts on the
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latest advances in a clear and readable form; selections,
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annotated by experts, of the most interesting papers from the
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great wealth of original publications; and comprehensive
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bibliographic listings from several hundred journals.
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With the OCLC Electronic Journals Online service, the Current
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Opinions journals will be available to readers just 48 hours
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after acceptance. With a single subscription, subscribers can
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browse the contents of journals, or search the entire collection
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by a variety of indexes, Boolean operators, wildcard and
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proximity indicators. The Current Opinions journals also offer
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unlimited SDIs, and links to the MEDLINE database from the
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FirstSearch service, an OCLC online reference service.
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Subscribers to the electronic journal clusters access the
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journals with Guidon, Windows-based software developed by OCLC
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that combines intuitive, full-text browsing or searching with
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sophisticated color and halftone graphical images and equations
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in the same typeset quality presentation that one would expect to
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have in scholarly print publications.
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Institutions can subscribe to either journal cluster directly
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from OCLC, or through OCLC's regional networks. Subscriptions
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for the Current Opinions in Medicine and Current Opinions in
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Biology electronic journal clusters will be offered at
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substantial cost savings over the print versions.
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Current Opinions in Biology includes the following journal
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titles:
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Biotechnology Immunology
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Cell Biology Neurobiology
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Genetics and Development Structural Biology
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Current Opinions in Medicine includes the following journal
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titles:
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Anaesthesiology Obstetrics & Gynecology
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Cardiology Oncology
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Cosmetic Dentistry Ophthalmology
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Critical Care Orthopedics
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Dermatology Otolaryngology & Head & Neck Surgery
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Endocrinology & Diabetes Pediatrics
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Gastroenterology Periodontology
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Hematology Psychiatry
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Infectious Diseases Pulmonary Medicine
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Lipidology Rheumatology
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Nephrology & Hypertension Surgical Infections
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Neurology Urology
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For more information on the Current Opinions electronic journal
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clusters, call 800-848 -5878, ext. 6251, in the United States.
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Asia Pacific users should call 614-764-6189. OCLC Europe can be
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reached at +44-21-456-4656.
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Public-Access Computer Systems News is an electronic newsletter
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that is distributed on Internet and other computer networks.
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There is no subscription fee.
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subscribers also receive two other electronic serials: Current
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Cites and The Public-Access Computer Systems Review.
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Public-Access Computer Systems News is Copyright (C) 1994 by the
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University Libraries, University of Houston. All Rights
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Reserved.
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Copying is permitted for noncommercial use by academic computer
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centers, computer conferences, individual scholars, and
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libraries. Libraries are authorized to add the journal to their
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