THIS WEEK: Dialog1 and ABR now available
Dialog1, which uses a simple forms based format and doesn't require users to be familiar with the Dialog command line syntax, is now available via ilanetweb.
ABR, which offers an extensive range of business and company information services including the the Australian Securities and Investments Commission databases, REVS, the Australian Population index and ASX databases has also been available from ilanetweb since 1st February. ABR also offers access to the State Land Titles databases and a number of proprietary credit databases. These services will be available to ILANET members directly shortly and if, in the meantime, you need to access these services, contact the support desk.
Scientific American
The site of the this magazine reflects the quality of the print edition, which has been in existence since 1845.
Some of the more interesting recent items and articles include:
The collapse of Larsen B, the largest single event in a 30-year series of ice shelf retreats in Antarctica, which appears to be the result of rapid warming there.
http://sciam.rsc03.net/servlet/cc?lJpDUWErLOpgFpsHgLmDgLmDHNE0EXCZ
Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor
http://www.sciam.com/2002/0202issue/0202kubey.html
The Social Psychology of Modern Slavery
http://www.sciam.com/2002/0402issue/0402bales.html
Interlibrary Loan System Upgrade
The ILANET Interlibrary Loan system has been upgraded. Conforming to current national standards, the new ilanetweb ILL System offers a range of "Service levels". The new service level options are:
Core (within 5 days)
Priority (within 48 hours)
Rush (Fast Track)
Express (Premium)
These levels appear in the subject line of the email ILL request. More information on the Australian Interlibrary Resource Sharing (ILRS) Code is available form the National Library.
http://www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/ilrscode/ilrscode.html
In response to requests from members, a subject request form has been added in addition to the monograph and periodicals templates.
Kinetica adds access to CURL and WorldCat
The UK Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL) has established a database of bibliographic records that is now available to Kinetica customers. CURL will appear as a new choice on the Kinetica database selection screen. Tips for how to search CURL can be found at: http://www.nla.gov.au/kinetica/manuals/guide11.html http://www.curl.ac.uk/search/tips.html WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalogue) contains over 44 million bibliographic records dating back to the 11th century and includes holdings information from libraries in 45 countries. A guide for using WorldCat via Kinetica can be found at: http://www.nla.gov.au/kinetica/manuals/guide10.html Please note that while the above resources are available on Kinetica via ilanetweb, access to OCLC WorldCat via Kinetica is intended only for ILANET members from special, school and public libraries. Academic and State libraries should contact OCLC's Australian agent DA Information
Services to discuss their requirements.
Visual Interfaces to Web based Searches HighWire Press has a new layout supporting a Topic Map; a graphical browsing tool that lets you navigate through the HighWire contents (301 full-text journals) by viewing all the indexed topics as coloured boxes. Web Brain allows you to search a "concept space" of subjects with the results for a particular search shown as hyperlinks below.
http://www.webbrain.com/html/default_win.html The Vivismo search engine is a metasearch service that presents results in an interesting format much like Northern Lights's folders: http://vivisimo.com/html/index.html Quick links
On March 9, 2002, the Los Angeles Times revealed the Pentagon's secret war plans for developing, deploying, and using a new breed of nuclear weapons against seven countries. Based on the leaked classified U.S. Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), this document shows that the possible use of nuclear weapons remains on the agenda of the remaining superpower.
http://www.psr.org/NPRfactsheet.html
A searchable directory of images, visualisations and animations of the earth.
SciDev.net is a new non-profit free online source of science news and research relevant to sustainable development.
The timeline for the future according to futurologist Ian Pearson.
http://www.btexact.com/white_papers/downloads/WP106.pdf
Thousands of "free research tools" for journalists
The Koha Open Source Library System is a full catalogue, OPAC, circulation and acquisitions system distributed and developed by the Horowhenua Library Trust.
The Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) is a new initiative to provide free or nearly free access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences, to public institutions in developing countries. Journal abstracts are available to all users, without registration.
http://www.healthinternetwork.org/scipub.php
The Australian Drug Information Network (ADIN) provides a central point of access to quality Internet-based alcohol and drug information provided by prominent organisations in Australia and Internationally. Email alerts and quality sites make this site an important resource for informed debate on this important issue.
http://www.adin.com.au/index.html
An author has written a book that condems America's libraries for destroying archives of newspapers and books. Excerpts and reviews of the book "Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper" by Nicholson Baker (Random House) can be read at:
http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/04/27/baker/
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/baker-fold.html
Humour never goes astray and "The Warrior Librarian Weekly" for "librarians that refuse to be classified" may provide some.
http://www.geocities.com/bibliophist/
Free trial of ProQuest Learning:
During April, ProQuest Information and Learning, in conjunction with iSELECT, a State Library of New South Wales ILANET/Infocus joint venture, are offering Free Trials for each of the ProQuest Learning products.
ProQuest Learning: Literature gives pupils the opportunity to compare different interpretations of texts, find out about authors' lives and complete writings, hear poems being read, and grasp the meaning of literary terms, movements and genres.The service currently contains over 106,000 works of poetry, prose and drama and a wealth of secondary, contextual materials including images, video and audio files.
ProQuest Learning: History offers a vast collection of digitised sources. Here you can find newspaper clippings, rare books, parliamentary papers, journal articles, video clips, criminal trial records, diaries, and a bookshelf of respected reference titles and historical journals. ProQuest Learning: History currently contains almost 3,000 primary-source documents and another 2,500 journal articles supporting 200 widely studied curriculum topics.
Simply register at the following URL:
http://www.ilanet.net.au/FREE/evaluation.cfm
The Scientific World & Corante
The Scientific World provides acess to sciBASE, content derived from databases created by the British Library, the U.S. National Library of Medicine (MEDLINE®), PASCAL, major scientific publishers and other leading data providers. sciBASE features immediate digital delivery of full-text articles from over 700 scientific journals, as well as a copyright cleared document delivery service for other items. Searching is simple and convenient, with direct email or web delivery of purchased articles.
At ILANET we have set up a trial of this service and you can access it by using the logon kevin@ilanet.net.au and the password ilanetweb
To evaluate this service go to the following URL and select "member log-in."
http://www.thescientificworldjournal.com
Corante offer searching of more than 3,000 newspapers, magazines, wire services, and trade and medical journals. Use IntelliSearch® to get access to over 14 million articles from over 3,000 sources. With IntelliSearch® you get access to all kinds of newspapers, magazines, trade publications, journals and other copyrighted materials.
For a free 14-day trial go to:
http://www.corante.com/services/intellisearch/
You can examine the service without registration by going to the following URL and logging on with the user ID ilanetweb and the password member.
http://www.intellisearchnow.com/login.scml
ILANET-INFO
ilanetweb is a unique subscription based portal that gives members pay-as-you-go-access to a comprehensive suite of information sources and tools to help the information professional.
Information Request Management Tools:
A free ILL system for managing outgoing requests. Automated ILRS lookup. Resource Locator.
Database Services:
ABIX (Australasian Business Intelligence)(ASCOT) (ASIC corporate information)ABR (Australian Business Research) Informit Online (RMIT Publishing's Online Database Suite), Kinetica, News Store (Fairfax publications full text), NewsText (News Ltd Publications -full text inc. NZ), DataStar (web and Classic),Dialog (Classic, Classic Web,Select and Dialog1 ), EINS, Lexis-Nexis, OCLC FirstSearch, OVID Web, ProQuest & TradStat Web.
Document Delivery Servces:
CISTI, ABIX and Infotrieve.
You can sign up for a free trial of the service (please note our terms and conditions) at:
http://www.ilanet.net.au/FREE/t2.cfm
Training is available in the use of ilanetweb, for more information see:
http://www.ilanet.net.au/member/?goto=/member/training.cfm
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