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Public-Access Computer Systems News
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Volume 3, Number 15 (1992) ISSN 1050-6004
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Editors: Dana Rooks (LIBL@UHUPVM1) and Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
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(LIB3@UHUPVM1).
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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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ONLINE JOURNAL OF CURRENT CLINICAL TRIALS IS DATABASE'S PRODUCT
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OF THE YEAR, 1
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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS TO PUBLISH POSTMODERN CULTURE, 2
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ESTABLISH SCHOLARLY ELECTRONIC TEXT
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SERVICE, 2
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FIRSTSEARCH AND EPIC ADD SOCIAL SCIENCES INDEX AND EVENTLINE, 3
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ONLINE JOURNAL OF CURRENT CLINICAL TRIALS IS DATABASE'S PRODUCT
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OF THE YEAR
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Database magazine has named The Online Journal of Current
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Clinical Trials (OJCCT) its Product of the Year. OJCCT is an
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electronic, full-text, peer-reviewed science journal that
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includes graphics.
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OJCCT, which began publication on July 1, is a joint venture
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between the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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(AAAS), which developed the editorial content and focus, and the
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OCLC Online Computer Library Center, which developed the
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interface and distributes the journal on its international
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telecommunications network.
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The electronic journal publishes medical findings as soon as they
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have been reviewed by medical experts, giving physicians faster
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access to results of research on new and re-examined medical
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treatments.
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Subscribers access the journal using GUIDON, a graphical user
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interface developed by OCLC. GUIDON supports searching by
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subject, title, author, keyword, date, and a full range of
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Boolean and proximity operators. It displays full text, figures,
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tables, and equations in quality that rivals the printed page.
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OJCCT is available on a subscription basis to individuals or
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institutions.
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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS TO PUBLISH POSTMODERN CULTURE
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Oxford University Press and Postmodern Culture have announced a
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new partnership in electronic publishing. Beginning in January
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1993, Oxford will publish Postmodern Culture.
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Postmodern Culture is a peer-reviewed electronic journal of
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interdisciplinary criticism on contemporary literature, theory,
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and culture. It is currently published at North Carolina State
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University, and it is supported by the NCSU Department of
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English, the NCSU Libraries, NCSU Campus and Engineering
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Computing, the NCSU College of Humanities and Social Sciences,
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and the NCSU Research Office. Postmodern Culture has appeared
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three times a year since September 1990. Currently, it has over
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2,300 subscribers in more than 40 countries.
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Oxford University Press established an electronic publishing
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research unit in late 1985 and released their first electronic
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products in 1988. Oxford currently publishes more than fifty
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electronic packages in science, medicine, general reference, and
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the humanities and social sciences: Postmodern Culture will be
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Oxford's first electronic journal and its first networked
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electronic publication.
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ESTABLISH SCHOLARLY ELECTRONIC TEXT
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SERVICE
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The Indiana University Libraries have recently established a
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Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS), coordinated by
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Mark Day, to provide a focus for the increasing number of faculty
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and students in the humanities who need to work with scholarly
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texts in electronic form.
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Among the first texts to be made available in electronic form
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are: (1) the Bible in a variety of English translations and in
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the original Greek and Hebrew; (2) the sacred writings of other
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religions, such as the Islamic Quran and Hadith; (3) the complete
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corpus of classical Greek literature from Homer up to 500 AD; (4)
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various editions of the complete works of Shakespeare; (5)
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numerous works by well-known American writers such as Jefferson,
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Emerson, Twain, and Cather; and (6) the literary output of many
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other world-famous authors, such as the complete works of the
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German author Johann Wolfgang Goethe.
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Numerous tools in electronic form for aiding scholars and
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students in their interpretation of these original sources also
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have been acquired. There are four basic types of tools: (1)
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reference works on computer, such as the Oxford English
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Dictionary Second Edition on Compact Disc; (2) writing tools,
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such as multi-lingual word processors that can work with a
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variety of non-Roman scripts; (3) text analysis programs that can
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manipulate natural language data and output scholarly aids such
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as a complete concordance of all the words used by a particular
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author; and (4) instructional programs that help students and
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scholars to study anything from a single text up to entire
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languages and cultures. An example of the later is the recently
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acquired multimedia Perseus Compact Disc for the Macintosh that
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provides an interactive gateway to ancient Greek literature,
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history, art and archaeology.
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In addition to facilitating the acquisition of these electronic
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texts and tools and the hardware needed to support them, LETRS
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also plans to provide: (1) basic assistance to patrons in their
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use on both PC and Macintosh computers at its central location in
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the Reference Department of the Main Library; (2) faculty and
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graduate student workshops on available electronic text resources
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as part of the Library's Instruction and Orientation program; (3)
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consultations with individuals on scholarly research projects;
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and (4) development of campus-wide network access to electronic
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texts when and where feasible.
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FIRSTSEARCH AND EPIC ADD SOCIAL SCIENCES INDEX AND EVENTLINE
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OCLC's online reference services, The FirstSearch Catalog and the
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EPIC service, now provide access to Social Sciences Index and
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EventLine.
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Produced by the H. W. Wilson Co., Social Sciences Index (SSI)
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covers 350 English-language periodicals that are considered to be
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the core of the social sciences literature, covering such fields
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as anthropology, economics, geography, international relations,
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political science, psychology, social work, and public welfare.
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EventLine, from the Elsevier Publishing Group, contains
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information on 120,000 international conferences, trade shows,
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symposia, workshops, and seminars. EventLine can be searched by
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the subject of the meeting, its location, or the time period. It
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is compiled from news of international meetings covered in
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Elsevier's 1,000 publications.
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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) 1992 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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