+ Page 1 + ----------------------------------------------------------------- Public-Access Computer Systems News Volume 5, Number 3 (1994) ISSN 1050-6004 Editors: Linda Thompson (LIB1J@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU) and Ann Thornton (AThornton@UH.EDU). Issued on an irregular basis by University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. ----------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS Internet Book Shop Opens for Trade, 1 New ERIC Monographs, 1 Leading Immunology Journal to Go Online in 1995, 2 Antiquarian Bookshop on the Internet, 3 Chapman & Hall Purchases Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials, 4 OCLC Electronic Journals Online to Offer Current Opinions Journals, 5 INTERNET BOOK SHOP OPENS FOR TRADE A new service has been set up to allow you to browse/buy books online. It is totally free to users, and represents all of the information that book publishers would normally put into their catalogs. So far, Blackwell Publishers (Oxford, UK, and Cambridge, MA) have agreed to start the ball rolling, and their entire geography catalog has been mounted for you to look at. There are 120 books and journals dealing with ecology, pollution, land formations etc. If you would like to check it out, then access via WWW to URL : http://www.demon.co.uk/bookshop/ NEW ERIC MONOGRAPHS Two new monographs which highlight current communications technologies and how they are affecting curriculum, the economy, and society have been published by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. A brief overview of each monograph follows: + Page 2 + o "An Educator's Guide to Electronic Networking: Creating Virtual Communities" by Barbara Kurshan and Marcia Harrington offers network novices an introduction to the Internet and the benefits of network resources, a comparison of 28 commercial and non-commercial service providers, and an extensive glossary of more than 200 common networking terms. This guide assists teachers and administrators in making informed decisions prior to implementing network technologies in their schools. 118 pp., 8.5" X 11", tables, glossary, $10 plus $2 shipping. o Christina Doyle's "Information Literacy in an Information Society: A Concept for the Information Age," recognizes the change in American society from an industrial economy to an economy based in services and information. This monograph encourages educators to prepare students for success in the new working environment by teaching them to access, evaluate, and use information from a variety of sources. 84 pp., 5.5"x 8", $8 plus $2 shipping. If you would like to examine these publications, contact Sue Wurster, Editing Specialist/Marketing Assistant, swurster@ericir.syr.edu. LEADING IMMUNOLOGY JOURNAL TO GO ONLINE IN 1995 Elsevier Science and OCLC will launch Immunology Today Online in January 1995 on OCLC's Electronic Journals Online (EJO) system. Immunology Today Online will join several other journals already available through EJO, including the Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials, Electronics Letters Online and the Online Journal of Knowledge Synthesis for Nursing. Immunology Today is the first of the high-profile science review magazines published by Elsevier Trends Journals to become available online. The launch is part of a series of strategic initiatives in electronic publishing to be taken by Elsevier Science. Immunology Today Online will build on the strengths of Immunology Today, the world's leading immunology review journal, offering scientists and students instant desktop access to the world of immunology through OCLC's highly intuitive graphical interface, Guidon. Immunology Today Online contains many new features complementary to the print version. The features include: + Page 3 + o Users will be able to access current and past articles of interest with the browsable "Table of Contents" or sophisticated search and retrieval facilities, and comment on topics and controversies online. o Full hypertext functionality allows users to move through related articles at the click of a button. o Hypertext links to abstracts of cited papers, from the Excerpta Medica bibliographic database, will reduce time spent finding primary papers for further reading. o Articles from _Immunology Today_ will be supplemented with news items and an online "Product Finder" that will enable users to access relevant product information as they need it. o A "Bookstore" will provide information and ordering procedures for new books and journals. o Online "Job Trends" will list the latest vacancies for immunologists around the world. Selected subscribers to the print edition will be offered access to Immunology Today Online for a full year in return for providing detailed feedback to the publisher. OCLC's Electronic Journals Online offers fast publication; a graphical user interface that displays full-color figures, tables, and equations; immediate access to timely information available online seven days a week; access from the office, laboratory or library; and optimal searching capabilities. Other features include an extensive help system, toll-free telephone support and comprehensive user documentation. For more information contact Susan Gatell, Elsevier Trends Journals, +44 223 315961, s.gatell@elsevier.co.uk; or Andrea Keyhani, OCLC, +1 614 764 6474, andrea_keyhani@oclc.org. ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSHOP ON THE INTERNET Meyer Boswell Books, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has put a catalogue of its books on the Internet. The bookshop, which specializes exclusively in rare and scholarly law (including constitutional law), has been in business since 1979, and is a member of the American Association of Antiquarian Booksellers. Its catalogue consists of the approximately 6,000 books presently in its inventory, and is easily searchable by e-mail; orders for the books may also be placed. + Page 4 + To receive a Help file which describes both how to search and how to order, send an e-mail message to rare-lawbooks@netcom.com. In the subject field put the word help, and likewise in the message field put the same word. Your message will thus read: To: rare-lawbooks@netcom.com Subject: help Message: help For those who would care to dive right in, here is an example of a basic but powerful search for every book we have in stock by or about Blackstone: To: rare-lawbooks@netcom.com Subject: search Message: search Blackstone Here is another example, this time of a basic subject search: To: rare-lawbooks@netcom.com Subject: search Message: search constitutional law After you have sent your e-mail message, we will send you an e-mail reply; this usually takes a few minutes (depending where you are). In the case of a search, you will receive back a list of those books which satisfy your search. Please also feel free to call or write: Meyer Boswell Books, Inc. 2141 Mission Street San Francisco CA 94110 415 255-6400 FAX 415 255-6499 CHAPMAN & HALL PURCHASES ONLINE JOURNAL OF CURRENT CLINICAL TRIALS Chapman & Hall has purchased the Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Based in London since 1830, Chapman & Hall has become a major international scientific, technical and medical (STM) publisher owned by the International Thomson Publishing Group. Chapman & Hall established a North American presence in 1992 to develop books, journals and electronic products in science and medicine. Editorial, marketing and promotion responsibilities for the Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials will be executed from the New York office of Chapman & Hall. + Page 5 + The Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials is distributed through the OCLC Electronic Journals Online service, which provides full-text searching, hypertext linking capabilities, related document linking, and access 23 hours each day to the journal via dial access or through the Internet. OCLC's Guidon interface software presents the full text of the journal, including figures, tables, and equations, in a quality that rivals the typeset page. The Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials is the first electronic product in Chapman & Hall's expanding journals program that includes American Journal of Therapeutics, Journal of Wilderness Medicine, Microcirculation, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Physics, Biology, and Medicine. Chapman & Hall plans to pursue more electronic publishing opportunities in the future. For subscription inquiries, call Dean Smith at 212-564-1060, ext. 232. For editorial and production issues, call James Geronimo at 212-564-1060, ext. 225. Chapman & Hall can be reached by fax at 212-564-1505. For additional information, contact Nita Dean, 614-761-5002, nita_dean@oclc.org; or Dean Smith, 212-564-1060, ojcct@chaphall.com. OCLC ELECTRONIC JOURNALS ONLINE TO OFFER CURRENT OPINIONS JOURNALS Six Current Opinions journals in the biological sciences and 24 Current Opinions journals in clinical medicine will be available electronically through the OCLC Electronic Journals Online service. The Current Opinions journals, from the Current Science Group, will be organized in two "clusters" for electronic delivery. Current Opinions in Biology, from Current Biology Ltd., and Current Opinions in Medicine, from Current Science Ltd., will be available in early 1995. The Current Opinions journals were developed out of the recognition that it is increasingly difficult for specialists and researchers to keep up to date with the expanding volume of information published in their respective subject areas. Current Opinions in Biology and Current Opinions in Medicine keep subscribers current by providing: the views of experts on the latest advances in a clear and readable form; selections, annotated by experts, of the most interesting papers from the great wealth of original publications; and comprehensive bibliographic listings from several hundred journals. + Page 6 + With the OCLC Electronic Journals Online service, the Current Opinions journals will be available to readers just 48 hours after acceptance. With a single subscription, subscribers can browse the contents of journals, or search the entire collection by a variety of indexes, Boolean operators, wildcard and proximity indicators. The Current Opinions journals also offer unlimited SDIs, and links to the MEDLINE database from the FirstSearch service, an OCLC online reference service. Subscribers to the electronic journal clusters access the journals with Guidon, Windows-based software developed by OCLC that combines intuitive, full-text browsing or searching with sophisticated color and halftone graphical images and equations in the same typeset quality presentation that one would expect to have in scholarly print publications. Institutions can subscribe to either journal cluster directly from OCLC, or through OCLC's regional networks. Subscriptions for the Current Opinions in Medicine and Current Opinions in Biology electronic journal clusters will be offered at substantial cost savings over the print versions. Current Opinions in Biology includes the following journal titles: Biotechnology Immunology Cell Biology Neurobiology Genetics and Development Structural Biology Current Opinions in Medicine includes the following journal titles: Anaesthesiology Obstetrics & Gynecology Cardiology Oncology Cosmetic Dentistry Ophthalmology Critical Care Orthopedics Dermatology Otolaryngology & Head & Neck Surgery Endocrinology & Diabetes Pediatrics Gastroenterology Periodontology Hematology Psychiatry Infectious Diseases Pulmonary Medicine Lipidology Rheumatology Nephrology & Hypertension Surgical Infections Neurology Urology For more information on the Current Opinions electronic journal clusters, call 800-848 -5878, ext. 6251, in the United States. Asia Pacific users should call 614-764-6189. OCLC Europe can be reached at +44-21-456-4656. + Page 7 + ----------------------------------------------------------------- Public-Access Computer Systems News is an electronic newsletter that is distributed on Internet and other computer networks. There is no subscription fee. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to LISTSERV@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU that says: SUBSCRIBE PACS-P First Name Last Name. PACS-P subscribers also receive two other electronic serials: Current Cites and The Public-Access Computer Systems Review. Public-Access Computer Systems News is Copyright (C) 1994 by the University Libraries, University of Houston. All Rights Reserved. Copying is permitted for noncommercial use by academic computer centers, computer conferences, individual scholars, and libraries. Libraries are authorized to add the journal to their collection, in electronic or printed form, at no charge. This message must appear on all copied material. 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