Identifies four of the leading vendors of online public access catalogue (OPAC) interfaces. Outlines some of the features of the systems.
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Identifies four of the leading vendors of online public access catalogue (OPAC) interfaces. Outlines some of the features of the systems.
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Describes the Ovid Web Gateway which allows users to access Ovid and 239.50 databases using a Web browser. States that the Ovid Web Gateway is unique in that it keeps track of…
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Describes the Ovid Web Gateway which allows users to access Ovid and 239.50 databases using a Web browser. States that the Ovid Web Gateway is unique in that it keeps track of search histories and allows users to manipulate previous search sets.
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Outlines the work in interactive education of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. States that the $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation will launch a major project…
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Outlines the work in interactive education of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. States that the $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation will launch a major project, MathLinks, an electronic library of hypertext documents that link topics in mathematics, science and engineering.
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Being that this is my premier article for the newly named Academic and Library Computing, I thought I should discuss what you can look forward to in this section in the future.
Chadwyck‐Healey Announces the Patrologla Latina Database. The Patrologia Latina Database is a major text conversion and electronic publishing project. It is a complete…
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Chadwyck‐Healey Announces the Patrologla Latina Database. The Patrologia Latina Database is a major text conversion and electronic publishing project. It is a complete machine‐readable edition of the classic nineteenth‐century collection of texts edited by the ecclesiastical publisher Jacques‐Paul Migne.
During the past few months at Lafayette College, we've discussed the issues and process behind our decision to move e‐mail off our IBM minicomputer. Newsletter articles have…
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During the past few months at Lafayette College, we've discussed the issues and process behind our decision to move e‐mail off our IBM minicomputer. Newsletter articles have mentioned the slowness of the current system (LINC, Lafayette's Integrated, Networked Campus) as the reason for moving and that during the next couple of years we'll be moving the rest of the software off that system to the PC network. We also noted that there were two paths we could take in moving, e‐mail: one was to the PC network using a package like Lotus' cc:Mail; the second to move the e‐mail to another large system like the VAX or Unix systems and use POP Mail on the PC to provide an easy mail interface. In both cases, we would keep our existing IDs in LINC and forward LINC mail to the new mailer, allowing a slow transition from the old e‐mail address to the new one.
During the past few years, many professional groups, including academic computing and library personnel, have wrestled with the issue of high prices or nonexistent licenses for…
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During the past few years, many professional groups, including academic computing and library personnel, have wrestled with the issue of high prices or nonexistent licenses for using CD‐ROM databases over campus networks. While some progress appears to have been made over time, CD‐ROM vendors are not moving fast enough to change their antiquated pricing policies.
A Fundamental Change in Computing on Campus. For the first time in almost ten years of running collegiate computing departments, the promise of what computers were supposed to do…
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A Fundamental Change in Computing on Campus. For the first time in almost ten years of running collegiate computing departments, the promise of what computers were supposed to do in the first place is finally within sight. We've spent these last couple of decades equipping our faculty and students with hardware, teaching them about software, and sharing what people elsewhere were doing with all this equipment. But we were still following the traditional computing model: a central computing department was responsible for implementation, training, and most changes dealing with computing on campus. It's both exciting and scary that this fundamental change is taking place.
The national network connecting colleges, research institutions, and some businesses — the Internet is actually an amalgam of many smaller networks. Originally constituted by the…
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The national network connecting colleges, research institutions, and some businesses — the Internet is actually an amalgam of many smaller networks. Originally constituted by the government for its use (as ARPA‐net), the Internet connects state and regional networks together into one logical network. With the proper physical connections and software installed a mainframe, mini,or PC can be a node on this network.
An issue was raised in the Chronicle of Higher Education last January that could have severe implications for our campus. The article entitled, “Messages in Questionable Taste on…
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An issue was raised in the Chronicle of Higher Education last January that could have severe implications for our campus. The article entitled, “Messages in Questionable Taste on Computer Networks Pose Thorny Problems for College Administrators,” talked about electronic mail, bulletin boards, and discussion groups available through campus and international computer networks.