Issue 5

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August 1996 " Issue Number 5

Journal Article Retrieval Made Easy With INFOTRAC Products

Beginning July 1996, after a one-year at a special laser printstation located at the Business ASAP. CD-ROM subscriptions
free trial period, Booth Library is offering Reference desk. These services also can for Dissertation Abstracts, GPO Index,
faculty and students easy, online access to be accessed from home or office through and Newspaper Abstracts will be canceled
thousands of general interest and business the Booth Library website: in favor of searching these databases
journal articles. Two InfoTrak products, http://www.eiu.edu/~booth. If you do through FirstSearch.
Expanded Academic Index ASAP and not have a web browser available, contact We will not lose access to these databases;
Business & Company ProFile/Business Reference Services for instructions on we are just changing the access route.
ASAP, provide powerful and efficient accessing through telnet. Savings realized by replacing the CD-
article retrieval by combining fast, easy ROM subscriptions with FirstSearch
search techniques with full-text printing. With exciting new services becoming access will nearly pay for access to
Yes, these are complete articles, not just available through the Internet, Booth Expanded Academic Index ASAP and
citations and abstracts. Library is moving away from CD-ROM Business & Company ProFile/Business
citation database subscriptions. Academic ASAP.
Expanded Academic Index ASAP Index on CD-ROM has been replaced by
provides indexing and abstracts for Expanded Academic Index ASAP. ABI- We encourage you and your students
articles from 1,620 academic journals, Inform has been replaced by Business & to learn about and use these exciting new
including 100 percent of the journal titles Company ProFile/ services. If you have questions about the
indexed by Humanities Index, Social new databases, please call Reference
Science Index, and General Science CarlUncover Services at 6072.
Index, plus the current six months of the continues free
New York Times. Full-text is available for access to once a week to identify new materials
articles from 600 journals. added to CarlUncover. Resulting records
REVEAL and ALERT and citations from both services are
Business & Company ProFile/ automatically e-mailed to your account.
Business ASAP provides indexing and Eastern Illinois University faculty,
abstracts for 950 business journals, plus staff, and students will continue to have To access these free services, enter
the Wall Street Journal, the New York free access to CarlUncover's Reveal and telnet database.carl.org at the eiu%
Times, and the Asian Wall Street Journal Alert services for the 1996-97 academic prompt. Then answer the questions
Weekly. The database also features year. The services are computer-based regarding setting up your user profile. Be
directory information for 180,000 public and the information is transmitted to your sure to record your assigned profile
and private companies, as well as e-mail account. Faculty may want to use number and the password which you
complete text of newswire stories about these services for research or general assign. Wait overnight while the system
those companies. Full-text is available for interest. verifies that you are authorized to receive
articles from 500 journals. this service. The following day you may
The Reveal service provides records execute the same telnet command and
At Booth Library, students, faculty of selected journals' tables of contents again follow instructions to tell the system
and staff members may print the text of each time a new issue is entered into the which journal titles you are interested in,
complete articles on attached printers or CarlUncover database. The Alert service for the Reveal service, and what search
download articles to computer disks. allows specific search terms to be entered terms you want in your profile, for the
Images, graphs and charts can be printed into a profile which you establish; using Alert service.
that profile, a search is performed
If you have questions, contact
Virginia Baldwin at Reference Services.

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C C Mooperative ollection anagement ill://www

The Illinois Cooperative Collection In other business, the committee Did you know that interlibrary loan and
Management Coordinating Committee agreed to invite all academic libraries in photocopy requests can be submitted
met in February, and selected grant Illinois which are members of ILLINET to through the World Wide Web and Booth
proposals to be funded. Fourteen commit themselves, along with the Library's home page?
proposals had been submitted for original 27 libraries already involved, to
consideration. cooperative collection development. The To do this, access our home page at
members felt that membership in http://www.eiu.edu/~booth and select
Decisions on funding were made after ILLINET implies that libraries will the appropriate request form (loan or
considering several factors. Members provide access to and share resources photocopy). You must fill in all fields on
reviewed each proposal and judged each throughout the state. the form. Be sure to include a mailing
one using a score sheet. The scoresheets address and provide as much
were tabulated by EIU's Testing Services. FREE SEARCHING bibliographic information as possible.
The proposals were then ranked by The more accurate and complete your
percent of cases selected, by mean Good news for all searchers! The citation, the faster we can process your
weighted score, and by each of the Illinois State Library is currently paying request.
variables contained in the score sheet. for free access to the following
Other factors considered were the needs of FirstSearch databases: WorldCat, ILL staff download, print and process
both researchers and the general public, Contents1st, FASTDOC, Article1st GPO, electronic requests on a daily basis, along
ease of access to materials, copyright MEDLINE, ERIC, Papers1st, and with requests submitted in person.
issues, overlap with other State of Illinois Proceedings1st. Full-text is available
initiatives, and innovation in the creation through Article1st and FASTDOC. If you have any questions about
of new sources of information. interlibrary loans, call us at 6074.
Another full-text database,
The following proposals were funded EBSCOMags, was added to the list for L O O K!
in whole or in part (some amounts are free access. EBSCOMags covers general
approximate): reference, business, news, science, social The Periodicals area recently
science, humanities, education, health, installed a new system to count
C $25,000 for Consumer Health; politics, public affairs, and current events, the use of journals. Each bound
as well as 700 full-text consumer health volume and loose journal now has
C $6,000 for Illinois Curriculum brochures and 3,500 full-text Magill book a barcode. As they are returned to
Materials Center Home Page; reviews. the shelf, the materials are
scanned by an electronic reader.
C $33,000 for ISI Local Journal We encourage all faculty to take This enables the staff to track
Utilization Reports; advantage of this free searching. The how often a particular journal or
service is accessed from all ILLINET magazine is used. In order to
C $32,636 for microfilm of Papers of the Online terminals in the library. maintain an accurate count,
NAACP; patrons are being asked to leave
If you have a web browser at home or materials on the reading tables
C $7,728 for Pet Information Database, a office, FirstSearch databases are available after using them. The staff will
community-based information service through Booth’s website: return the journals to the shelves.
model; http://www.eiu.edu/~booth. From telnet,
log on to your e-mail account and at the PLEASE
C $25,000 for Project Muse Access. eiu% prompt type: DO NOT RESHELVE
telnet fscat.oclc.org. To access the free
The following proposals are pending, databases, use the authorization number PERIODICALS!
depending on availability of funds and 100107187, and the password
clarification of certain issues: SMXRK2MUD. To access other
FirstSearch databases, stop by the
C $11,040 for Index of Ancient Art and Reference desk and pick up an
Architecture; authorization card.

C $31,430 for Readex United Nations If you need assistance with any of
Documents and Publications on your computer searching, contact
Microfiche, 1976-1981. Reference Services at 6072.