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Public-Access Computer Systems News
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Volume 4, Number 12 (1993) ISSN 1050-6004
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Editors: Dana Rooks (LIBL@UHUPVM1) and Linda Thompson
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(LIB1J@UHUPVM1).
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Issued on an irregular basis by University Libraries, University of
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Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091.
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CONTENTS
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Dynamic Information Drops Price on Some Documents for Delivery, 1
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1994 OCLC On the Front Line Award Nominations Sought, 2
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RLG Adds British Library's New Table-of-Contents Database to
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CitaDel, 2
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EPIC Prices Standardized, 3
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The COOK Report on Internet, 4
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OCLC Awards Three Research Grants, 5
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Three Databases Added to FirstSearch and EPIC, 6
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DYNAMIC INFORMATION DROPS PRICE ON SOME DOCUMENTS FOR DELIVERY
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Dynamic Information, a document supplier for users of ArticleFirst
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on OCLC's FirstSearch Catalog, has lowered its price from $12.50 to
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$8 for some documents delivered by first-class mail. The price was
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dropped on documents that have lower royalty fees. Most documents
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supplied by Dynamic Information will be offered at the lower price.
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Articles in JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association are
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among those available for the $8 first-class mail delivery
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charge. Other titles with the $8 pricing include Byte,
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Transactions of the ASAE, Journal of the Acoustical Society of
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America, and Maclean's.
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The online document ordering option, part of the OCLC Dispatch
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Service, gives library patrons using OCLC's FirstSearch Catalog
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the ability to order serials articles found in a variety of
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databases.
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In addition to Dynamic Information, articles are being supplied
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on ArticleFirst by UMI Article Clearinghouse. UMI also supplies
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articles for Periodical Abstracts. Both document suppliers offer
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delivery by fax and overnight mail in addition to first-class
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mail. A link to PRISM/ILL is also available. More suppliers
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will be added, allowing users to choose among several suppliers
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offering the same article.
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For additional information, contact Daviess Menefee, 614-764-4358,
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or Nita Dean 614-761-5002.
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1994 OCLC ON THE FRONT LINE AWARD NOMINATIONS SOUGHT
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Nominations are now being accepted for the 1994 OCLC On the Front
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Line award. The OCLC On the Front Line award is presented each
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year to an outstanding reference librarian who makes effective use
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of electronic reference products in his or her daily work. The
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winner must demonstrate knowledge, creativity, and good humor on
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the job.
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A check for $1,000 and a memento of the achievement will be
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presented to the winner during the National Online Meeting in New
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York City next spring.
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For more information, or to receive a nomination application for
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the 1994 OCLC On the Front Line award, write: OCLC, Reference
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Services Division; MC 236; 6565 Frantz Road, Dublin, OH
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43017-0702.
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Deadline for nominations is March 1, 1994.
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RLG ADDS BRITISH LIBRARY'S NEW TABLE-OF-CONTENTS DATABASE TO
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CITADEL
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The Research Libraries Group (RLG) has mounted the British
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Library's new table-of-contents database on CitaDel, RLG's citation
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and document delivery service. Called Inside Information, the new
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database was launched by the British Library Document Supply Centre
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(BLDSC) in the UK during July and has been available on CitaDel
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since September 1.
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Inside Information provides author, title, and journal citation
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information for articles appearing in 10,000 of the most requested
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titles in the BLDSC's collection of 50,000 of the world's principal
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journals and magazines.
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As of September 1, Inside Information contained approximately
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900,000 citations from October 1992 onwards, with BLDSC estimating
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that more than 1 million citations will be added to the file every
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year. Daily updating is planned.
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Full text of every article cited will be available by document
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delivery through CitaDel. Delivery methods include air mail, fax,
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and RLG's Ariel (document transmission software for the Internet).
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Inside Information will be available free to institutions
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purchasing annual subscriptions to RLIN (the Research Libraries
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Information Network). For institutions not purchasing RLIN
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subscriptions, Inside Information will be available for a yearly
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fee as a stand-alone CitaDel file. (RLG member institutions
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automatically receive a 5% discount on all subscription fees.)
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Institutions purchasing annual subscriptions to RLIN or Inside
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Information will receive a free copy of the Ariel software.
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For more information, please contact the RLIN Information Center at
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1-800-537-7546; email bl.ric@rlg.bitnet or bl.ric@rlg.stanford.edu
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(Internet); FAX 415-964-0943.
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EPIC PRICES STANDARDIZED
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As part of OCLC's overall pricing simplification plan, some
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connect-hour and display-format charges for the EPIC service
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changed as of July 1, 1993. The changes are being made primarily
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to allow libraries to more easily predict search costs and to
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remember prices across databases.
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Highlights of the changes:
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o database connect-hour charges are now multiples of 10:
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$30, $40, $50, etc.
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o record-display charges are now standardized across
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databases
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o online and offline record-display charges are now the
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same
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o practice database connect-hour prices are now all $10 per
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hour
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o display list is the free display format for browsing
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search results
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For most databases on EPIC, charges for connect time have either
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stayed the same or decreased. They were increased for 11
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databases. Record-display prices, which varied widely, will
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increase somewhat for most databases. Prices for most databases
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added since January 1993 have followed the new pricing standard.
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Copies of the new EPIC price list are available from
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OCLC-affiliated regional networks or OCLC reference services.
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For additional information, contact Tam Dalrymple, 614-761-5054, or
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Nita Dean, 614-761-5002.
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THE COOK REPORT ON INTERNET
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The COOK Report is a monthly newsletter focusing on the policy
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complexities of NREN, and National Information Infrastructure (NII)
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development as well as Internet commercialization. Published by
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the former Director of a US Congress Office of Technology
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assessment of the NREN, who is beholden to no federal
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agencies or private companies for funds, it contains views not
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generally found within the community of NREN and NII "boosters."
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The COOK Report helps subscribers:
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o to understand the so far, convoluted evolution of Federal Policy
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toward the commercialization and privatization of the
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Internet, the creation of an NREN and a National Information
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Infrastructure;
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o to understand the economic trends linking the development of
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multi-protocol routers and public network transport
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technologies from Federally sponsored testbeds to commercial
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implementation;
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o to understand whether commercial internet providers can satisfy
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corporate needs to link LANs over a wide area network;
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o to understand developments and issues affecting K-12 and library
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access to the network infrastructure;
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o to understand the commercialization's impact on the cooperative
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nature of the Internet and its standards process;
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o and to track changes in policy by the new administration.
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Subscriptions available for volume one at slightly reduced prices
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or starting with volume two (April 1993).
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Price List for one year subscription (effective April 1993)
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Individual: $85
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Non-Profit, Small Government Agency, or Corporation: $175
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(Site License $300)
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University or college library: $175 (subscriptions available
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through Readmore and Faxon)
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Corporate (revenues greater than $10 million a year) or
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Cabinet Level Agency: $350
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Corporate Site License (hardcopy and electronic with right to
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redistribute within corporation): $500
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Foreign Subscriptions: add $50 in each category
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Call, write or email: Gordon Cook, COOK Network Consultants,431
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Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618; 609-882-2572; Internet:
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cook@path.net
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OCLC AWARDS THREE RESEARCH GRANTS
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The OCLC office of research has awarded three Library and
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Information Science Research Grants (LISRG) to university
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researchers for 1993.
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The grant recipients and their projects are:
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o Carolyn O. Frost, Ph.D., associate dean, School of
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Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan: "An
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Empirical Test of Gopher Searching Using Three Organization
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Schemes"
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Gopher is an example of a commonly used protocol for
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searching networked information. Although the use of
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networked information is proliferating at an astounding
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rate and is providing unprecedented access to
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information, the organization of this information has
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not kept up with its use. Likewise, there is need for a
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greater understanding of information searching in order
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to design better searching tools, organize networked
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information more effectively, and assist information
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providers in the mounting of networked sources. There
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has been little research on how people use Gopher, or
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its effectiveness as a searching tool. The proposed
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project will study Gopher users' information searching
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behavior, identify patterns and problems in the
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searching behavior or with the information retrieval,
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and recommend changes for improvement.
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o Richard P. Smiraglia, Ph.D., associate professor, Palmer
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School of Library and Information Science, Long Island
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University: "Toward the Bibliographic Control of Works:
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Derivative Bibliographic Relationships in the Online Union
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Catalog"
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The purpose of this project is to further the
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bibliographic control of works by verifying the extent
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of derivative bibliographic relationships in the OCLC
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Online Union Catalog and by testing a conceptual model
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for a database of bibliographic works. The methodology
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employed will be descriptive survey research of a random
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sample of bibliographic families from the Online Union
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Catalog and qualitative examination of the most complex
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families to assess the efficacy of the conceptual model.
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o James H. Sweetland, Ph.D., associate professor, and Judith J.
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Senkevitch, Ph.D., assistant professor, School of Library and
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Information Science, University of Wisconsin at Madison:
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"Evaluating Public Library Fiction Collections: Is There a
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Core List of Classics?"
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The project will address the following research
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questions: Is there a core of widely held adult fiction
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in the OCLC database which can be used as a list of
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classics? Does this core list relate to standard lists
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of recommended fiction supposedly relied upon by public
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libraries in selection and evaluation? Can one or more
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standard lists be recommended as those most likely to
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predict librarians' behavior? Is it feasible for OCLC
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to consider using the core list concept to develop a
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machine-readable product to assist public librarians in
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evaluating their fiction collections?
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The OCLC Library and Information Science Research Grant program
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awards grants of up to $10,000 to help foster quality research by
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faculty in schools of library and information science. Projects
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are generally completed within one year, and findings are published
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in the OCLC Annual Review of Research and in other scholarly
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communications. Application materials for 1994 will be available
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this November. For more information, contact the office of
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research.
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THREE DATABASES ADDED TO FIRSTSEARCH AND EPIC
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OCLC has recently added three databases to its online reference
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services, The FirstSearch Catalog and the EPIC service.
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MEDLINE, the well-known index for all areas of medicine; Education
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Index, covering all aspects of education; and Biological &
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Agricultural Index, which indexes journals ranging from the popular
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to the professional, bring the total number of databases available
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on FirstSearch to 36, and on EPIC to 40.
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MEDLINE, produced by the National Library of Medicine, indexes over
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3,500 journals published in many countries. In addition to
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clinical and experimental medicine, MEDLINE provides citations,
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many with abstracts, to materials in dentistry, nursing, veterinary
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medicine, nutrition, pathology, psychology, and other
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health-related fields. Its coverage on FirstSearch and EPIC runs
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from 1985 to the present, and it is updated monthly on both
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services.
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Education Index is the online version of the H.W. Wilson Co.'s
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printed database of the same name. It indexes articles from over
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400 English-language periodicals and yearbooks as well as selected
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series and supplements. Education Index covers all levels and
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sectors of the education community from preschool and kindergarten
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to special education, high school, and college. Its coverage on
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FirstSearch and EPIC runs from June 1983 to the present, and it is
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updated monthly on both services.
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Biological & Agricultural Index is also an online version of a
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Wilson index. It cites articles from more than 240 periodicals
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published in the United States and elsewhere and also provides
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coverage of biographical sketches, reports of symposia and
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conferences, review articles, selected letters to the editor,
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special issues, and abstracts. Almost half of the citations relate
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to agriculture. The rest cover fields such as animal husbandry,
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botany, ecology, food science, forestry, horticulture, and zoology.
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Its coverage in FirstSearch and EPIC goes from 1985 to the present,
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and it is updated monthly on both services.
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The FirstSearch Catalog is designed for library patrons, with an
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end-user interface that allows patrons to move easily through the
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online search process in just a few simple steps, without training
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or online searching experience.
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EPIC, a full-featured online reference system that provides subject
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access, and keyword and Boolean searching to a variety of
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databases, is designed for librarians and experienced searchers.
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For additional information, contact Tam Dalrymple, 614-761-5054, or
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Nita Dean, 614-761-5002.
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Public-Access Computer Systems News is an electronic newsletter
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that is distributed on BITNET, Internet, and other computer
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networks. There is no subscription fee.
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To subscribe, send an e-mail message to LISTSERV@UHUPVM1 (BITNET)
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or LISTSERV@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU (Internet) that says: SUBSCRIBE PACS-P
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First Name Last Name. PACS-P subscribers also receive two other
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electronic serials: Current Cites and The Public-Access Computer
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Systems Review.
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Public-Access Computer Systems News is Copyright (C) 1993 by the
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University Libraries, University of Houston. All Rights Reserved.
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Copying is permitted for noncommercial use by academic computer
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Libraries are authorized to add the journal to their collection, in
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