+ Page 1 + ---------------------------------------------------------------- Public-Access Computer Systems News August 27, 1990 Volume 1, Number 8 ISSN 1050-6004 Editors: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. (LIB3@UHUPVM1) and Dana Rooks. Issued on an irregular basis by University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. ---------------------------------------------------------------- UNCOVER GATEWAY ESTABLISHED IN MINNESOTA The Minnesota State University System's Project for Automated Library Systems (MSUS/PALS) has announced an agreement with CARL Systems, Inc. to establish a Gateway to provide access to CARL System's UnCover database. UnCover provides access to nearly one million journal articles, from over 9,500 individual titles with access current within 24 hours of issue receipt. The agreement will make UnCover available to the network of 44 Minnesota state universities, community colleges, private colleges and State Agency library members of MSUS/PALS. For information about MSUS/PALS, contact Dale Carrison, MSUS/PALS Office, Mankato State University, Box 19, Memorial Library, Mankato, MN 56001 (507-389-5062). For information about CARL Systems and UnCover contact Rebecca Lenzini, CARL, 777 Grant Street, Suite 306, Denver, CO 80203 (303-861-5319). IAC DATABASE ACCESS EXTENDED TO CARL USERS OUTSIDE COLORADO The Information Access Company and CARL Systems, Inc. have reached an agreement which allows other CARL System users or Gateway participants with proper license agreements to access any IAC databases on the CARL System. Currently available through the CARL System's Public Access Catalog are Magazine Index (TM) and Trade & Industry Index (TM). Linked to these databases are online full-text articles from IAC's Magazine ASAP (TM) and Trade & Industry ASAP (TM). Users of the CARL System can search the online indexes, locate articles of interest, and then order those articles to be delivered, either online to the screen or offline through telefacsimile. + Page 2 + Users are able to charge their document delivery orders using VISA or MasterCard numbers, which are entered online to the CARL System and validated immediately through a major Denver bank. Access to the IAC databases have been available to Colorado users since April of this year. This recent agreement allows both organizations to extend this access beyond Colorado, providing appropriate system usage and database license agreements have been reached. For more information about the IAC databases and licensing agreements, contact Todd Miller at IAC, 362 Lakeside Drive, Foster City, CA 94404 (415-378-5200). For more information about the CARL System, contact Rebecca Lenzini at CARL Systems, 777 Grant, Suite 306, Denver, CO 80203 (303-861-5319). COMPACT CAMBRIDGE ANNOUNCES NEW PRODUCTS Compact Cambridge has announced, the availability of four new CD- ROM databases: (1) PolTox links seven pollution and toxicology databases covering ten years of data with quarterly updates. (2) IPA: International Pharmaceutical Abstracts is a compendium of international pharmaceutical literature dating back to 1970. Updated quarterly. (3) The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) focuses on biomedical literature relevant to nursing and allied health related issues. The database is updated monthly and includes a thesaurus and backfiles to 1983. (4) Health covers a ten-year period and provides access to more than 350,000 records on non-clinical aspects of health care delivery. Quarterly updates. + Page 3 + Compact Cambridge has also announced an online connection to Grateful Med and BRS which offers online updating of Compact Cambridge searches. Compact Cambridge MEDLINE users will be able to construct a search on CD-ROM, connect automatically to an online service, and retrieve materials without changing search languages. The new enhancement is expected to be available later this year. For additional information call 1-800-843-7751 within the United States and Canada. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (C) 1990 by the University Libraries, University of Houston. All rights reserved. Copying is permitted for noncommercial use by computerized bulletin board/conference systems, individual scholars, and libraries. Libraries are authorized to add the journal to their collections at no cost. This message must appear on copied material. All commercial use requires permission. ----------------------------------------------------------------