When searching the database, it is possible to search either individual publications or clusters of related sources, such as a number of newspapers from a region. For example; you can search a group of Australian news publications, or restrict your searching to the Melbourne Age. You can search the full text of articles by keywords, or search nominated parts of the documents, (eg: headlines).
The Monash University Library has brought a subscription to the service which will allow fifteen users to connect to the system at any one time. Access will be possible via the AARNet from networked terminals in academics' offices, or mediated by your subject librarian. Training for academic staff will be available from the library after 1st of June. The database is easiest to search if you use its own search software, which is available free from the library. Alternatively you can simply Telnet to the remote system.
Included with this issue of Library News is a brochure giving information on this database service. For further information please contact your Subject Librarian.
Here is a sampling of the many useful publications which are available from the service. In most cases coverage begins in the late 1980's.
The Age
AI expert
Australian financial review
BBC summary of world broadcasts
Byte
Economist
Harvard business review
Kremlin international news broadcasts
MacUser
New York times
PC magazine
Scientific american
South China morning post
Sydney morning herald
The Times (London)
Who's who in Russia and the C.I.S.
Xinhua (new China) news agency
To activate the filter which removes unwanted control characters from the records to be downloaded, log in to the ABN system as vtsofi.
When ready to download records, use the /f command. Select the download option and specify which records are to be downloaded. Select the required fields and the appropriate format (either plain text or NLM Medline format.)
The capture facility of your communications software should be turned on, and later turned off on completion of downloading.
Further records can be added to an existing file by repeating this process.
Please do not access the "Request for document by InterLibrary Loan" or "Display locations (holdings) in libraries" options from the /f menu, as there are problems associated with them.
Contact your Subject Librarian for help with the CAUL Current Contents system.
Swift is best known as the author of "Gulliver's Travels" (1727). Monash has a large collection of works by and about Swift, in the original editions. Monash held an exhibition of this material in 1990, and free catalogues are still available. The forthcoming exhibition will feature Swift's major works such as "Gulliver's Travels" and "A Tale of a Tub", but will also highlight the other writers of the early 18th century. The intention is to place Swift among his circle of friends, enemies, influences and acquaintances.
The exhibition will include examples of the philosophy, theology, politics and literature of the time. Highlights include a first edition of Pope's "The Rape of a Lock", John Gay's "The Beggars' Opera", early eighteenth century books on magic, and such curiosities as the "Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus"(1729).
The exhibition will open on the 1st of June and continue until the 30th July. An extensive catalogue will be available free. For further information, please contact Richard Overell, Rare Books Librarian, ph: 905 2689 or Email Richard.Overell@Lib.Monash.edu.au.
In 1995, to offset the cost of the added hours of opening on Sundays, the Library proposes to close at 10 pm on weekdays rather than at 10.30 pm as at present. Library staff believe that students attending lectures until 10 pm are anxious to set off for home and prefer to borrow library materials during the breaks in lecture sessions, hence would not be disadvantaged by the proposed change.
This task has proved to be fraught with problems. Indeed, we are still experiencing major difficulties in providing reliable communications access to the system from both on and off campus.
As part of our efforts to resolve the problems we have been obliged to reduce temporarily the number of terminals that can access the system simultaneously and to give priority to workstations and OPAC terminals that are located within the Library and its branches. As a result people trying to access the system from remote workstations (e.g. from their offices on-campus, from their homes via dial-in modems or via AARNet) may experience frequent problems in connecting to the system.
Please be assured that the Library fully appreciates the importance attached by academic staff to the remote access of SESAME2 (PALS). Many people are working very hard to resolve the problems and we hope that a satisfactory level of service can be restored soon. There is certainly no intention to abolish or reduce this service. Unfortunately, at this stage it is not possible to predict when the problems will be solved..
Meanwhile I apologise for the difficulties that you and other users are experiencing and would be grateful for your understanding and tolerance.
Edward Lim
University Librarian
Articles cited in UnCover are available for purchase through UnCover2. Users can perform searches, place orders and handle payments from their homes, offices or libraries. A full text copy of an article may be ordered online and delivered to a specified fax number within 24 hours.
CARL also provides access to the serials database of the British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC). This means that articles from the BLDSC collection may also be requested online to be delivered to a local fax number.
Users may decide to pay by personal credit card (VISA, MASTERCARD or AMERICAN EXPRESS) then, in some cases, apply to their faculty for reimbursement of costs. The Library is again supporting the use of this new service with a 12 month offer to reimburse some of the costs (up to a designated amount) for the delivery of articles from the UnCover database.
Most faculties have a CARL UnCover Liaison person who will be able to provide guidelines on usage limits and eligibility for reimbursement of costs.
A new brochure has been produced to provide information on accessing the database; search procedures; order, delivery and payment details. A copy is included with this issue of Library News, others will be available through your library.
It should be noted that, as well as providing an option for reimbursement for those electing to pay by personal credit card, Monash libraries run deposit accounts with CARL for the supply of documents from UnCover. Requests may therefore be put through your Interlibrary Loan Office to be billed in the usual way for overseas requests.
Further inquiries may be made to Judith Greenaway in the Main Library (phone: 54800 or email: judgreen@lib.monash.edu.au) or by contacting your subject librarian.
There is no charge for the email table of contents service. Articles ordered by reply email will be delivered for a flat rate of US$8.50 plus copyright fee, and a fax surcharge if applicable.
For more information contact Judith Greenaway in the Main Library on phone: 905 4800 or email: Judith.Greenaway@lib.monash.edu.au) or by contacting your subject librarian.
You may search a wide variety of journal titles ranging from Business History to Brain Research. Using a computer, and appropriate communications hardware and software, you can access UnCover and search for articles on particular topics (word searching), on known authors of articles (author searching), or from particular journal titles (title searching). You may also search for a journal title and then "recreate" the table of contents of a particular issue.
The database is continually updated at the rate of 3 to 4 000 articles per day and is current within 24 hours of the receipt and processing of the journal issues. Title records also include information on the status of each journal issue, when it was received or when it is expected in the library.
Once you have identified an article of interest you may decide to order the article and have it faxed to your personal fax number. Once ordered, articles usually take only twenty four hours to be delivered (this time varies in some cases).
Copyright royalties are carefully tracked and paid to publishers. Costs can be charged to any valid VISA or MASTERCARD. Alternatively, you may decide to complete an Interlibrary Loan Request Form (for those eligible), submit the request through your Interlibrary Loan Office and have your department charged for the usual cost of an overseas request.
database.carl.org
Once connected, the system asks for the terminal type to be identified. Usually this will be,
5. VT100
This selection should work in most instances, however, if you suspect your terminal is not a VT100 terminal, you may have to seek further advice from your faculty technical supervisor or the Computer Centre.
The CARL System offers several databases for use:
To use UnCover select,
1.UnCover (Article Access and Delivery)
To use British Library Document Supply Centre database,
First select,
7.Other Information and Article Databases
Then,
42.British Library Document Supply Centre (Article Delivery)
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Use WORD search to identify articles
or journal titles containing a keyword.
Use AUTHOR search when you know the
author of an article.
Use TITLE search to browse by a known
journal title. From here you may
RECREATE and BROWSE the CONTENTS
PAGE of a specified issue.
Basic MENU options for searching are :
N for NAME search
W for WORD search
B for BROWSE by journal title
S to STOP or SWITCH to another database
Type the letter for the kind of search you want, end each line
by pressing
//N - NAME search, eg., //npeter drucker
//W - WORD search, eg., //wozone
//T - TITLE browsing, eg., //ttime
NAME SEARCH
NAMES in the UnCover database are usually authors of articles.
If there are multiple authors listed on the Table of Contants
page, they are all searchable in the NAMES file.
For example, use NAME searching to find articles or material
BY -- J.K.Galbraith
BY -- Chomsky, Noam
BY -- Germaine Greer
OR, use QuickSearch command from any prompt:
//ngermaine greer
WORD SEARCH: WORDS can be words from the title, or from sub
-titles, summaries or abstracts that appear on the Table of
Contents page for each journal. A WORD search may also return
NAMES of people who are discussed or referred to in the
articles. You may also supply the name of a journal in your
search in order to limit your results to that publication.
For example,
postmodernism and women
green politics
australia asia business
OR, use QuickSearch command from any prompt:
//wgreen politics
BROWSE SEARCH
TITLE BROWSE allows you to scan the collection in JOURNAL TITLE
order. You should enter a title in its exact form.
For example,
New Statesman Society
Journal of Industrial Relations
Technology and Culture
OR, use QuickSearch command from any prompt:
//ttechnology and culture
Payment can be made by using a MASTERCARD, VISA or AMERICAN EXPRESS. If you do not create a Profile, or if your Profile is incomplete, during the ordering process, you will be prompted for a name, phone number fax number, and any routing information to get the fax to the correct location. If you choose to order the item through your Interlibrary Loan Office, the fax will be directed through that office in the first instance.