+ Page 1 + ---------------------------------------------------------------- Public-Access Computer Systems News April 24, 1991 Volume 2, Number 3 ISSN 1050-6004 Editors: Dana Rooks (LIBL@UHUPVM1) and Charles W. Bailey, Jr. (LIB3@UHUPVM1). Issued on an irregular basis by University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. ---------------------------------------------------------------- NOTIS 5.0 SHIPPED NOTIS Systems has completed its NOTIS Library Management System Release 5.0. The new release includes a completely new online public access catalog with labeled displays, cross references, and support for the Common Command Language (ANSI Standard Z39.58). Other new features include a menu-driven navigator for staff functions, an online system control file, support for the USMARC Format for Holdings and Locations, automated fiscal year closing routines for the acquisitions module, and enhanced global heading change capabilities. The release is already in production at the two beta test sites--Fort Hays State University (Kansas) and Purdue University (Indiana). Users of NOTIS' turnkey package, Key NOTIS, will receive many of the Release 5.0 features in Key NOTIS Release 1.1, scheduled for shipment in August 1991. For information, contact Stuart W. Miller, NOTIS Systems, Inc., 1007 Church Street, Evanston, IL 60201-3622, or call (708) 866- 0178. IAC TO DEMO FULL TEXT DATABASES ON TAPE A new line of full text databases on tape will be demonstrated by Information Access Company at the ALA Conference in Atlanta. The full text expansion of the Infotrac 2000 Database Licensing Program enables public and academic libraries to provide the full text ASAP files through existing online public access catalog systems. Initial full text databases available under the program will be Magazine ASAP, Computer Database ASAP, Trade and Industry ASAP, and Health Periodicals Database. For information, contact Todd Miller, IAC, 362 Lakeside Drive, Foster City, CA 94404, or call (415) 378-5000. + Page 2 + FREE TRIAL OF INFOTRAC 2000 IAC is offering a free 90-day trial of its new InfoTrac 2000 databases on tape. Under the program, libraries may access one of the ten InfoTrac 2000 databases on their online public access catalog systems for up to 90 days. The databases are available on tape or via the Data Research or CARL network gateways. The InfoTrac 2000 tapes are compatible with CARL, Carlyle, CLSI, Data Research Associates, Dynix, Geac, Inlex, Innovative Interfaces, NOTIS, Sirsi, and VTLS library automation systems. For more information on the free trial, call 1-800-227-8431 and ask for InfoTrac 2000. The offer expires July 31, 1991. RLG DEVELOPS NEW DOCUMENT TRANSMISSION SYSTEM The Research Libraries Group has developed a new document transmission system called ARIEL. Using an IBM PC/AT or compatible, H-P scanner, H-P laser printer, and RLG proprietary software, users can scan and store articles, photos, and similar documents, transmit the highly compressed images over the Internet to other workstations, and then print them on a laser printer. According to RLG, the system is faster, more reliable, and less expensive to use than fax and produces images of greater resolution and quality. The system has been tested at Colorado State University, Dartmouth College, University of California at Berkeley and Davis, University of Michigan, and University of Pennsylvania. For information, contact Marilyn Roche, RLG, (415) 691-2284, or e-mail bl.mxr@rlg.bitnet. U.S. PRESIDENTS CD-ROM FOR MAC Wayzata Technology, Inc. has developed a CD-ROM for the Macintosh on U.S. Presidents. The CD-ROM contains biographies and statistics for all forty-one presidents of the United States. TextWare, a high speed database search and retrieval engine is included in the $39.00 list price. Contact Mark Engelhardt, Wayzata Technology, Inc., P.O. Box 807, Grand Rapids, MN 55744, or call 1-800-735-7321. + Page 3 + III DEVELOPS EXPORT TO PRO-CITE Innovative Interfaces, Inc. is developing a direct-export feature that enables users of the INNOPAC online catalog to export catalog records into Pro-Cite databases. This feature transfers to a PC or a Mac used as a terminal on the INNOPAC system a file of records in the specific "comma-delimited" format required by Pro-Cite. After using the INNOPAC export command, users complete the process by executing the Pro-Cite import command. Users are not required to have Biblio-Link software in order to do this. With their data now in a Pro-Cite database, users can search, sort, index, manage and generate bibliographies formatted in any bibliographic style of their own selection of records derived from INNOPAC. Innovative will make available the new export command as an option in the upcoming Release 7 of the INNOPAC system. DIALOG EXPANDS ONDISC NEWSPAPERS COLLECTION Dialog Information Services, Inc. has announced the addition of the San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday and New York Newsday, and the Detroit Free Press to its line of CD-ROM newspaper products. Each product contains the full text of all stories, features, columns, editorials, and letters from the print editions. For pricing and additional information, contact Dialog Marketing at 3460 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, or call 1-800-334- 2564. ISI RELEASES NEW EDITIONS OF DATABASES ON DISKETTE The Institute for Scientific Information has announced the April release of Current Contents on Diskette with Abstracts in four multidisciplinary editions: Life Sciences; Agriculture/Biology and Environmental Sciences; Physical/Chemical and Earth Sciences; and Clinical Medicine. Weekly access is provided to the latest contents listings and abstracts. In addition, this enhanced version contains author- assigned keywords as well as ISI's KeyWords Plus, extracted from the references cited in each article. Current Contents on Diskette with Abstracts is available on 3- 1/2" and 5-1/4" high-density diskettes for IBM and 100% compatibles, and 3-1/2" high-density diskettes for Macintosh microcomputers. Customers receive weekly data diskettes, search and retrieval software, and a User Guide. Both single-station and network editions are offered. + Page 4 + For information, write to the Institute for Scientific Information, 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, or call 1-800-336-4474. CROSS-CULTURAL CD SilverPlatter has introduced Cross-Cultural CD, a series of 10 topical, full-text databases compiled from the Human Relations Area Files Archive. Two databases will be published each year for the next five years on five CDs. Volume 1, Human Sexuality and Marriage is now available. Part I of Volume 2, Family is also available with Crime and Social Problems to be published as the remainder of the second volume at a later date. Additional volumes planned are: Volume 3, Old Age and Death and Dying; Volume 4, Childhood and Adolescence and Socialization and Education; and Volume 5, Religious Beliefs and Religious Practices. Each database will contain from 6,000 to 12,000 pages of text, citations to source documents, and summaries on each of the 60 societies from around the world included in the HRAF Archive. For information, contact SilverPlatter, One Newton Executive Park, Newton Lower Falls, MA 02162-1449, or call (617) 969-2332. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (C) 1991 by the University Libraries, University of Houston. All rights reserved. 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