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Tue Jul 2 20:18:02 1996
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 12:20:16 -0500 (CDT)
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The MARS Local Systems and Services Committee is sponsoring an
open forum discussion at ALA on web interfaces to bibliographic databases,
primarily focusing on indexing/abstracting services and online catalogs.
The discussion will be held:
SATURDAY, JULY 5
11:30am - 12:30pm
Crowne Plaza 407
Please join us! We also encourage vendor representatives to attend.
Following is a list of URLs for several online catalog and
indexing/abstracting service sites that we encourage you to browse.
Even if you don't join us, you may find these sites helpful in evaluating
products and services. A web page with these sites (and new products as
they are developed) will be available shortly at the Local Systems and
Services homepage at: http://www.fcla.ufl.edu/RASD/local.html
ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS CATALOGS (OPACs)
Peter Scott and Doug Macdonald of the University of Saskatchewan have put
together an excellent guide to web-based online catalogs called "webCATS:
Library Catalogues on the World Wide Web" at:
http://library.usask.ca/hywebcat/
Here is a partial list of web-based OPAC vendors that have websites with
information on their product and in many cases, links to libraries using
their web catalog:
INNOPAC's WebPAC
http://www.iii.com/screens/opacintro.html
DRA's DRA Web
http://www.dra.com/products/draweb/draweb.HTM
VTLS' Virtua-Web Gateway
http://www.vtls.com/gateway.html
Ameritech's WebPac
http://www.als.ameritech.com:80/ISC37.HTM
SIRSI's WebCat
http://www.sirsi.com/webcatsites.htm
CARL Corporation's CARLweb
http://www.carl.org/carlweb/
INDEXING/ABSTRACTING SERVICES
Some of these companies have demo versions available at their sites as well
as general information on their web-based services.
OCLC's FirstSearch Web:
General information is at:
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/promo/9582fsweb/9582.htm
Access to NetFirst database:
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/netfirst/free.htm
Information Access Company's web version of Infotrac Searchbank
Information only:
http://www.iacnet.com/~lib/pressrel/alamwre.html
CARL UnCover
Information and access at:
http://www.carl.org/uncover/unchome.html
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts' IDS
General information at:
http://www.csa.com/ijs-desc.html
Demo version at:
http://www.csa.com/demo/demov2-reg.html
Ovid Technologies'Ovid Web Gateway
Information and demo at:
http://preview.ovid.com/libpreview/start.cgi
SilverPlatter's WebSPIRS (For ERLusers only)
General information at:
http://www.silverplatter.com/webspirs.htm
EBSCO's EBSCOhost
Information at:
http://www.epnet.com/host.html
Laurie Preston, chair
RASD MARS Local Systems and Services Committee
prestola@jmu.edu
