October 1996 Issue: 142

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 Full-Text Journals Available Campus-Wide!
Member News/Library News
Live From the Internet - Book Reviews
Librarian's Bookshelf
UNCLE Debuts on the World Wide Web
Renewal Form

Full-Text Journals Available Campus-Wide!

     Campus-wide access has been set up on an experimental basis for several full-text journals. To set up "institutional" level access to these particular titles, one or more of the UNC-Chapel Hill libraries must have an active subscription to the print version. In addition, library staff must supply information to the publisher that registers the campus as a site and enables the publisher to identify authorized users associated with that site. Without this link to a library subscription, users may not be able to get online access or may have to obtain a personal subscription or use a less powerful "guest" level of access.
    A list of and a link to electronic journals provided by the Academic Affairs Library may be found at http://www.unc.edu/lib/serials/ejournal/alpha.html. Many of these titles are available from UNC-Chapel Hill campus computers only, for example, JBC (Journal of Biological Chemistry) Online. Several selections require that you register for full access. Besides the title and the URL for each electronic journal, each listing contains information on how to access the site, including instructions on how to register for full access, and distribution information. Additional titles are being added to this list as more journals become available.
    Access to any Institute of Physics journals (http://www.iop.org) received at UNC-Chapel Hill libraries is free for rest of 1996. Online access is set up by Brauer (Math/Physics) Library staff. Connect to the site and click on the hot link for "Electronic Journals." For security reasons, you must get the Site ID and Password in order to register. You may get this information from the UNC-Chapel Hill institutional contact, Peggy Markham. A hot link to Peggy's email address has been set up for this purpose. After entering the Site ID and Password, you will be asked to complete a brief registration form, create a personal Username and Password, and accept the terms stated in the Copyright Notice. The Site ID and Password may also be obtained from the Health Sciences Library (email hslref@med.unc.edu). This site also permits browsing tables of contents for other IOP journals not received at UNC-Chapel Hill.
    The Health Sciences Library has set up access to the following journals through December 31, 1996.

*To abide by the licensing terms outlined in the User Agreement, email the Health Sciences Library (hslref@med.unc.edu) to get the institutional subscription number. They are not participants in the IPDR experiment.

Other full-text journals

    Full text access is available on a temporary basis for a number of other journal titles. For example, connecting to http://www.idealibrary.com/index. html allows you to register for Genomics, Neurobiology of Disease, and Cellular Immunology. At least one of these, Genomics, will require libraries to register the site to continue access after December 31, 1996.

Your comments, please!

    Decisions to continue campus-wide online access beyond that date are likely to be made on a case-by-case basis. Publishers are still experimenting with site registration, licensing terms, and pricing for online access. These arrangements are unique to each publisher. For example, some publishers have announced they will begin charging fees for online access rather than including it in the cost of the print subscription.
    You may address your comments or suggestions to the appropriate Academic Affairs bibliographer or departmental librarian. For health-related titles, you can contact Christie Degener (966-0612 or cdegener.hsl@mhs.unc.edu).

Submitted by Geneva Holliday &Christie Degener
Many thanks to Christie Degener for allowing me to revise her article which appeard in News & Views, Issue 287 (October 1996). Return to Table of Contents

Librarian's Bookshelf: Selected New Books

 Dolnick, Sandy (ed.) Friends of libraries sourcebook. 3rd ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1996. Z681.7.U5 F75 1996

Ferguson, Tom. Health online : how to find health information, support groups and self-help communities in cyberspace. Reading, MA : Addison-Wesley, 1996. R859.7.D36 F47 1996

Herron, Nancy L. (guest ed.) The social sciences: a cross-disciplinary guide to selected sources. 2nd ed. Library science text series. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1996. H61 .S642 1996

Metz, Ray E. and Gail Junion-Metz. Using the World Wide Web and creating home pages: a how-to-do-it manual. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 1996. Z674.75.W67 M48 1996

Robles, Kimberly and Neal Wyatt (compliers). Reference training in academic libraries. Chicago: College Library Information Packet Committee, College Libraries Section, Association of College and Research Libraries,1996 Z675.U5 C6463 no.24 Turock, Betty J. (ed.) Envisioning a nation connected: librarians define the public interest in the information superhighway. Chicago: American Library Association, 1996. Z674.8 .E87 1996

Wiegand, Wayne A. Irrepressible reformer: a biography of Melvil Dewey. Chicago: American Library Association, 1996. Z720.D5 W54 1996

For a list of new titles at the SILS Library visit http://sils.unc.edu/itrc/library/newbooks.html

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Live from the Internet and Beyond...

 Teaching Patrons to Evaluate Internet Sites With the Internet becoming a much used source for information, teaching patrons to critically look at the information they receive is crucial. The following list of sites give some pointers on how to teach students to evaluate Internet sources.

Thinking Critically about the World Wide Web
http://www.ucla.edu/campus/computing/bruinonline/trainers/critical.html

Resource Selection and Information Evaluation
http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~janicke/Evaluate.html

Evaluating World Wide Web Information
http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/research/classes/gs175/3gs175/evaluation.html

Evaluating Quality on the Net
http://www.tiac.net/users/hope/findqual.html

How to Critically Analyze Information Resources
http://urisref.library.cornell.edu/skill26.htm

Evaluating Information found on the Internet
http://milton.mse.jhu.edu:8001/research/education/net.html

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Member News/Library News

Davis Library

On Sept. 11, Natalia Smith presented the AAL digitization pilot project "Documenting the American South" at the Workshop organized by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC).

Marcia Tuttle's book, Managing Serials, published by JAI Press, is now out. It carries two chapters by Luke Swindler and two chapters by Frieda Rosenberg. The new work is a second edition of Marcia's 1983 Introduction to Serials Management.

As Chair of NCLA RTSS, Janet Flowers helped to organize the fall workshop, "The Interconnected Information Environment: Perspectives for Resources and Technical Services," which was held at the Friday Center on September 27. Joe Collins was a speaker at the workshop. The title of his presentation was "Using TSWs to Integrate Technical Services Operations."

Celine Noel, Helen Miller, Brenda Ambrose-Fortune, Elizabeth Meehan-Black, Anita Booth, Carol Pekar and Margaretta Yarborough attended the workshop.

Hsi-chu Bolick attended the Unicode Seminar for Scholars and Librarians in East Asian Studies which was held at UC Berkeley on September 7, 1996.

Health Sciences Library

Julia Shaw-Kokot has been elected Chair-elect of the Mid-Altantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association for 1997. She will preside over the Chapters activities in 1998. Julia also attended the CAUSE/CNI Southeast Regional Preconference in Roanoke, Virginia, September 11-13.

Institute for Academic Technology Library

The IAT's Web site was selected by InterNIC's Scout Report (http://rs.internic.net/scout/report/) as one of its featured sites for September 1996. Particularly mentioned was the "Cybrarian's Desk" page (http://www.iat.unc.edu/cybrary/cybrary.html), which Carolyn Kotlas, IAT Librarian, created and maintains.

Law Library

Lolly Gasaway served as an external reviewer for the University of Victoria, British Columbia September 22-24.

North Carolina Collection

On October 18, Neal Fulghum, Keeper of the North Carolina Collection Gallery, spoke at East Carolina University to members of the Society of North Carolina Archivists. His presentation, "Library versus Museum Exhibits: Public Perceptions, Professional Realities," included a slide show "tour" of the North Carolina Collection Gallery and discussions about the installation of exhibits, as well as educational and public relations advantages of presenting displays that combine historical objects with imprints and archival material.

Neil Fulghum recently installed in Wilson Library's lobby a new oil portraits of former UNC-Chapel Hill chancellors Christoper C. Fordham and Paul R. Hardin. These portraits join other works that depict earlier chancellors, including Robert House, William Aycock, Carlyle Sitterson, and Ferebee Taylor.

School of Information and Library Science

Evelyn Daniel, Professor, attended the International Federation of Library Associations in Beijing, China, in late August. She gave a paper on issues facing profession LIS schools and served as secretary of the Section on Education and Training and the Coordinating Board for Research and Education

Diane Sonnenwald, Assistant Professor, wrote "Optimizing Collaboration in Battalion Staff Elements" for the U.S. Army Research Laboratory.

Helen R. Tibbo, Associate Professor, attended the Society of American Archivists meeting in San Diego, Aug. 26-Sept. 1. While there she 1) chaired the Publications Board; 2) chaired an open forum for the Task Force on the Future of the American Archivist; 3) gave a paper at a session; and 4) attended a day-long preconference for archival educators.

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UNCLE Debuts on the World Wide Web

 http://www.uncle.unc.edu

    UNCLE, the University of North Carolina Literature Exchange, has made its debut on the world wide web. Users can now search MEDLINE, CINAHL, IPA, and more via the OVID Web interface. However, UNCLE has become more than just a few databases! UNCLE now offers access to the full-text of journals, internet health resources and some computer-aided instruction programs.
    UNCLE also provides an added benefit. Patrons accessing UNCLE from on-campus or using UniverCity or OIS will no longer need an ID or password. Those accessing UNCLE using a third party Internet Service Provider (InterPath or MindSpring) will need to have an ID and password.
    While the web version of UNCLE is a much heralded improvement, telnet access to the OVID databases is still available. Access via telnet still requires an ID and password. A celebration for UNCLE's new web interface is scheduled for the Fall.

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Don't Forget to Renew!

 Please remember to renew your LAUNC-Chapel Hill membership. Otherwise the LAUNC-Chapel Hill Newsletter and event announcements will not find you. To make renewal easier, please visit our renewal form on the web at http://www.lib.unc.edu/launcch/archives/memform.htm. Please print out the form and send with payment to the LAUNC-Chapel Hill Treasurer.

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