+ Page 1 + ----------------------------------------------------------------- Public-Access Computer Systems News Volume 6, Number 3 (1995) ISSN 1050-6004 Editors: Linda Thompson (LIB1J@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU) and Ann Thornton (AThornton@UH.EDU). Issued on an irregular basis by University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. ----------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS SIRSI Releases ProCite Export Options, 1 New UnCover Contributor Library to Deepen Scientific Collection, 2 VTLS InfoStation to Run on NeXT, Intel, HP, Sun, and DEC, 2 UnCover Announces Access on World Wide Web, 3 UMI's New Document Delivery System Nominated for Computerworld/Smithsonian Award, 4 Network Version of NoveList Now Available, 4 SIRSI RELEASES PROCITE EXPORT OPTIONS Adding to its line of client service capabilities, SIRSI has released the ProCite Interface for UNICORN/STILAS users. With UNICORN/STILAS Version 7.1, users will be able to use UNICORN/STILAS bibliographic records with ProCite bibliographic management software. SIRSI's new E-mail and Download Marked Results options convert UNICORN/STILAS bibliographic records to the ProCite format. The converted records can then be used to create databases, bibliographies, and item lists. When searching the UNICORN/STILAS database, users are able to flag records using the MARK button. Marked citations can then be downloaded using the E-mail or Download Search features of UNICORN and STILAS. Unlike other library systems, UNICORN/STILAS provides for all of the bibliographic work forms offered in ProCite. The entire process is completely automated. Users spend no time manually rekeying information. Once bibliographic records are in ProCite, users have tools for generating and printing various types of bibliographies and lists. Information can be presented as needed using any of ProCite's 28 different bibliographic styles, including University of Chicago, Turabian, and American Psychological Association. Other bibliographic styles can also be added. + Page 2 + SIRSI's ProCite Interface software is available for purchase with the 7.1 release of UNICORN and STILAS. For a limited time, customers purchasing the ProCite Interface will receive a coupon redeemable with PBS, Inc., for a 25% discount on ProCite. For more information, contact Greg Hathorn at (205) 922-9825. NEW UNCOVER CONTRIBUTOR LIBRARY TO DEEPEN SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION The Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (MBL/WHOI) has just become UnCover's newest contributing and supplying library. The MBL/WHOI Library supports the research efforts of scientists from two private laboratories and two federal government facilities located in Woods Hole, a village in the Town of Falmouth on the southwestern corner of Cape Cod. Because of the diversity of the research conducted in Woods Hole, the library collection includes a wide variety of scientific materials. Journals from areas as diverse as marine biology, radioanalytical chemistry, fisheries, geology, pesticides, physics, natural history, and petroleum geology are included in their collection. Teresa Mullins, Database Development Coordinator for UnCover, is in the process of examining the list of their holdings, and will begin adding new titles to the database during the spring of 1995. The MBL/WHOI Library will begin supplying articles as soon as equipment has been installed. For more information, call UnCover at (303) 758-3030. VTLS INFOSTATION TO RUN ON NEXT, INTEL, HP, SUN, AND DEC The VTLS InfoStation, a multimedia information access system and front end to online public access catalogs, will soon be running on two more major hardware platforms. Currently, InfoStation runs on Motorola-based NeXT hardware, on Intel-based 486 and Pentium machines, and on RISC-based Hewlett-Packard 700 series workstations. InfoStation will soon be running on SPARC processor-based hardware from Sun Microsystems, Inc., and on Alpha AXP-based hardware from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). The multimedia VTLS InfoStation features hypermedia links and annotative and authoring capabilities for library automation. It provides seamless integration between bibliographic and multimedia information, letting online public catalog users retrieve audio, textual, graphical, animated, and full-motion video objects linked to cataloged items. In addition, users can access information on the World Wide Web. + Page 3 + Integrated fully with image scanners and OCR software, the InfoStation can also serve as an image browser for an online catalog linked to scanned documents. With the browser, users can search for, view, magnify, and edit scanned images that reflect a variety of image formats and compression schemes. The InfoStation supports multiple distributed databases via TCP/IP and multimedia objects on the network via NFS, FTP, and Novell NetWare. It will soon support the z39.50 protocol. Clients currently using the VTLS InfoStation include Princeton University, National Agricultural Library, National Library of Switzerland, and the Library of Virginia. For more information, contact Gail Gulbenkian, VTLS, Inc., at (703) 231-3605. UNCOVER ANNOUNCES ACCESS ON WORLD WIDE WEB The UnCover Company has now made access to its UnCover database and other services available via a home page on the World Wide Web. UnCover provides table of contents indexing from nearly 17,000 journals worldwide. In addition to database access, UnCover's home page provides information about services, pricing, and a copy of the current UnCover Update newsletter as well as back issues. A list of all UnCover titles is also there and will be updated on a monthly basis. This list can even be downloaded via FTP. Future plans include a glossary of UnCover terminology and a quick guide for using UnCover. UnCover's home page address on the World Wide Web is http://www.carl.org/uncover/unchome.html. For more information, contact Brenda Bailey, The UnCover Company, at (303) 758-3030 or send e-mail to uncover@carl.org. UMI's NEW DOCUMENT DELIVERY SYSTEM NOMINATED FOR COMPUTERWORLD/SMITHSONIAN AWARD UMI's new Advanced Document Delivery System (ADDS) has been nominated for the Computerworld/Smithsonian Award, widely recognized as one of the premier awards programs in the information technology industry. ADDS is a new document delivery system that opens up access for researchers, students, and business people to a large amount of information, including magazine articles, news transcripts, newspaper stories, dissertation summaries, and more. Users access ADDS with a personal computer and modem and dial in to UMI's client-server host located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The system, which debuts this summer, is scheduled for 24-hour availability. + Page 4 + What differentiates ADDS from other services is the fact that users have unparalleled flexibility in how they view and have information delivered. Articles can be ordered in abstract-only form, full text, full image (a complete scan of the original article) or full text with graphics. And users can then dictate how they want their information delivered, whether by fax, express mail, electronic mail, or regular mail. The Computerworld/Smithsonian Award was started in 1989 as a means to recognize corporations, organizations, and individuals who are changing society through innovative uses of information technology. Finalists will be announced at the end of April and will be honored along with the winners at the seventh annual awards dinner at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., on June 5, 1995. For more information, contact Jonathan K. James, UMI, at (800) 521-0600, x3340. NETWORK VERSION OF NOVELIST NOW AVAILABLE CARL Corporation's new electronic readers' advisory resource, NoveList, is now available for networks. NoveList can now be loaded on most local area networks (LANs) or any shared file server system, such as Novell networks and LANtastic. The new Windows- based version of NoveList with a graphical user interface will also be available for LANs or any shared file server system. NoveList is an online readers' advisory resource that helps readers find books based on books they've read or topics in which they are interested. Readers enter a title or author they like or describe a book they would like to read, and NoveList finds books in its database with matching subject headings. NoveList provides enhanced subject access to approximately 34,000 adult fiction titles. NoveList's enhanced subject access is provided by the Hennepin County Public Library. In addition, over 3,000 full-text book reviews are also included in the NoveList database. These reviews are supplied by Booklist, the American Library Association's reviewing journal. In addition to these sources, the Windows-based version of NoveList also includes the 4th edition of Genreflecting by Diana Tixier Herald (1995, Libraries Unlimited). NoveList allows local users to modify and enhance the product's database through the use of editing utilities. These utilities allow for the addition of authors and titles that are popular locally as well as provide a means for a library's adult fiction experts to incorporate their knowledge into the product. Individuals interested in learning more about NoveList should contact Duncan Smith at (919) 416-0908; e-mail: dsmith@carl.org. + Page 5 + ----------------------------------------------------------------- Public-Access Computer Systems News is an electronic newsletter that is distributed on Internet and other computer networks. There is no subscription fee. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to LISTSERV@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU that says: SUBSCRIBE PACS-P First Name Last Name. Public-Access Computer Systems News is Copyright (C) 1995 by the University Libraries, University of Houston. All Rights Reserved. Copying is permitted for noncommercial use by academic computer centers, computer conferences, individual scholars, and libraries. 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