The Minnesota State University System's Project for Automated
Library Systems (MSUS/PALS) has announced an agreement with CARL
Systems, Inc. to establish a Gateway to provide access to CARL
System's UnCover database. UnCover provides access to nearly one
million journal articles, from over 9,500 individual titles with
access current within 24 hours of issue receipt. The agreement
will make UnCover available to the network of 44 Minnesota state
universities, community colleges, private colleges and State
Agency library members of MSUS/PALS.
For information about MSUS/PALS, contact Dale Carrison, MSUS/PALS
Office, Mankato State University, Box 19, Memorial Library,
Mankato, MN 56001 (507-389-5062). For information about CARL
Systems and UnCover contact Rebecca Lenzini, CARL, 777 Grant
Street, Suite 306, Denver, CO 80203 (303-861-5319).
IAC DATABASE ACCESS EXTENDED TO CARL USERS OUTSIDE COLORADO
The Information Access Company and CARL Systems, Inc. have
reached an agreement which allows other CARL System users or
Gateway participants with proper license agreements to access any
IAC databases on the CARL System. Currently available through
the CARL System's Public Access Catalog are Magazine Index (TM)
and Trade & Industry Index (TM). Linked to these databases are
online full-text articles from IAC's Magazine ASAP (TM) and Trade
& Industry ASAP (TM). Users of the CARL System can search the
online indexes, locate articles of interest, and then order those
articles to be delivered, either online to the screen or offline
through telefacsimile.
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Users are able to charge their document delivery orders using
VISA or MasterCard numbers, which are entered online to the CARL
System and validated immediately through a major Denver bank.
Access to the IAC databases have been available to Colorado users
since April of this year. This recent agreement allows both
organizations to extend this access beyond Colorado, providing
appropriate system usage and database license agreements have
been reached.
For more information about the IAC databases and licensing
agreements, contact Todd Miller at IAC, 362 Lakeside Drive,
Foster City, CA 94404 (415-378-5200). For more information about
the CARL System, contact Rebecca Lenzini at CARL Systems, 777
Grant, Suite 306, Denver, CO 80203 (303-861-5319).
COMPACT CAMBRIDGE ANNOUNCES NEW PRODUCTS
Compact Cambridge has announced, the availability of four new CD-
ROM databases:
(1) PolTox links seven pollution and toxicology databases
covering ten years of data with quarterly updates.
(2) IPA: International Pharmaceutical Abstracts is a compendium
of international pharmaceutical literature dating back to 1970.
Updated quarterly.
(3) The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature
(CINAHL) focuses on biomedical literature relevant to nursing and
allied health related issues. The database is updated monthly
and includes a thesaurus and backfiles to 1983.
(4) Health covers a ten-year period and provides access to more
than 350,000 records on non-clinical aspects of health care
delivery. Quarterly updates.
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Compact Cambridge has also announced an online connection to
Grateful Med and BRS which offers online updating of Compact
Cambridge searches. Compact Cambridge MEDLINE users will be able
to construct a search on CD-ROM, connect automatically to an
online service, and retrieve materials without changing search
languages. The new enhancement is expected to be available later
this year. For additional information call 1-800-843-7751 within
the United States and Canada.
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