ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries April 1 9 9 7 / 2 3 7 New s f r o m th e Field M a r y Ellen D avis P en n s y lv a n ia A cadem ic L i b r a r y C o n n e c t io n In itia tiv e fo rm e d A grassroots federation of 36 academic libraries, the Penn­ sylvania Academic Libraries Connection Initiative (PALCI, pronounced PAL-see), has been formed to spur the de­ velopment of library coop­ eration within the Common­ wealth. The initial focus will be to create a virtual online union catalog using a Web- b ased in terface en ablin g Z39.50 searches across multiple vendor systems. Searches will be conducted concurrently and the system will enable direct borrowing of materials by library clients at member libraries. PALCI is expected to be one of the largest Z39.50-based online statewide union catalogs. An additional goal is to negotiate and provide member purchasing of online resources and databases such as abstracting and indexing ser­ vices, and electronic journals and other full- text databases. PALCI is funded through membership fees and is believed to be the first grassroots effort in the country organized and completely self supported by its own membership. Formed dur ing the fall of 1996, the membership has com mitted to an initial project life span of two years, after which members will reevaluate the pro gram and determine its future. Sara Randall, previously o f Am eritech’ NOTIS system, has been named executive di rector. Further information about PALCI ma be found at http://www.lehigh.edu/~arh5 palci.htm. ACRL C o p y rig h t C o m m itte e w a n ts y o u r co m m en ts on f a ir use The ACRL Copyright Committee is solicitin your input on the fair use guidelines that hav been developed and proposed through th Conference on Fair Use (CONFU). The las scheduled meeting of CONFU is May 19, 1997 The proposed guidelines are available vi the ACRL Web page at http://www.ala.org acrl.html. Comments about the proposed guideline can be directed to any ACRL Copyright Com mittee member (listed on the ACRL Web page) ­ ­ ­ s ­ y / g e e t . a / s ­ . Should any reader lack Web access, contact Erika Linke, chair o f the ACRL Copyright Committee, for copies; e-mail: Erika.Linke@ cmu.edu; phone: (412) 268- 2447; fax: (412) 268-6944. H a v e rfo rd C ollege publishes fin d in g aid s on th e W e b Haverford College has pub­ lished detailed guides to its collections on its Web site at http://www.haverford. edu/library/sc/aids.html. The finding aids cover Haverford’s many large collections of Quaker family and personal papers and future plans call for mounting col­ lections of Quaker Yearly Meeting papers. Top­ ics covered in these papers and in the finding aids include those of interest to Quakers from the late 17th century through the late 20th cen­ tury: social reform, social justice, spirituality, abolitionism, education, Native Americans, and peace studies, as well as many private family matters such as financial and legal records. The project has received five years of sup­ port from the Pew Charitable Trust as well as private donations. Haverford plans to add ap­ proximately 1,500 pages of “precomputer” text finding aids on the Web. Each finding aid in­ cludes biographical information, a summary of collections, information on arrangement of the collections, and related collections, as well as a few images. F o rty jo u rn a ls n o w a v a ila b le o n lin e th ro u g h Project M use Project Muse, an electronic scholarly publish ing venture of the Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP), now offers 40 academic journal titles on the Web. The project, located at http: //muse.jhu.edu/, recently added P ostm odern Culture, America’s first peer-reviewed electronic humanities journal, and launched T heory & Event, another electronic-only title. JHUP and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library launched Project Muse in 1995 to enable world­ wide networked access by subscription to the full text of the press’ scholarly journals, and to make works of scholarship more widely avail­ able within the individual university communi­ http://www.lehigh.edu/~arh5/ http://www.ala.org/ http://www.haverford 2 3 8 / C&RL News ties by using online technology to produce af­ fordable electronic journals. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Project Muse offers materials relevant to the core curricula in major subject areas and is one of very few elec­ tronic journal resources in the humanities. “While our initial schedule called for us to reach the 40-journal milestone at the end of 1997, we accelerated our production to begin the year with all forty journals online,” explained Ellen Sauer, project manager. “By offering a comprehensive database for a full calendar year while we still have grant assistance, we will have the opportunity to observe market reac­ tion to our model, gather usage statistics, and make informed projections regarding the fu­ ture potential of electronic publishing at the Johns Hopkins University Press.” More than 260 campuses and institutions have subscribed to the full Project Muse data­ base, including the entire Virginia state academic library system, the University of California sys­ tem, the California State Universities, and the Library of Congress. A Project Muse institutional subscription of­ fers access to the full text of all 40 JHUP jour­ nals, along with advanced search functions that allow for searching by author, title, or keyword; in the tables of contents or full text of the jour­ nals; and across all the journals in Muse or just selected titles. When an academic library sub­ scribes to Project Muse, access is provided to the entire campus through any computer con­ nected to the campus network. From within the Internet domain of the subscribing cam­ Compilers needed for lists of Internet resources C&RL News seeks compilers to continue its series of articles providing subject lists of In­ ternet resources such as the one prepared by Fred Jenkins and Nancy Courtney on classics that appears on page 255 of this issue. If you would like to prepare a brief resource list in your area of expertise send an e-mail message outlining your topic and your background to: Tara Weikum, editorial assistant, tweikum@ala. org. Suggestions received by May 10 will re­ ceive first consideration. Topics covered by C&RL News prior to 1995 may be re-covered due to the dynamic nature of the Internet. pus, users are granted unlimited Web access to journal articles on the Muse file server. Sub­ stantial discounts on the $2,500 subscription list price are available. Sample issues can be found at http://muse.jhu.edu/ or contact Melanie Van derm ark at m e la n ie @ jh u p re s s .jh u .e d u for additional information. U C -lrvine a d o p ts exp ress checkout The University of California at Irvine (UCI) Li­ braries inaugurated an express self-checkout system in the Main and Science Libraries in Feb­ ruary. UCI staff report being pleased with this new technology developed by 3-M because it frees them from the more routine tasks of check­ ing out books. The system also enhances secu­ rity and helps prevent loss of materials because it links ANTPAC, the libraries’ existing circula­ tion system, with the security system. The Ex­ press Checkout stations guide users through each step of the transaction with on-screen prompts and graphics, that fully explain the process, eliminating the need for assistance. Users place their active UCI library card on the unit and enter their ANTPAC Personal Identifi­ cation Number. The system then accesses the user’s circulation records, validates the library card in ANTPAC, and prompts the user to place the first item to be checked out on the unit. An internal scanner reads the item ’s barcode, records the transaction, and prepares the item to be taken out of the library. After the user has completed checking out all the items, Express Checkout prints a transaction record. DIALOG@CARL fe a tu re s in te rfa c e fo r lib r a r y users CARL Corporation introduced DIALOG@CARL, a Web-based interface to DIALOG databases available exclusively from CARL Corporation. With DIALOG@CARL, information users can search more than 300 DIALOG databases quickly and easily through the graphical inter­ face of the Web and powerful search capabili­ ties. Prior to the introduction of DIALOG@CARL, the information resources required a familiarity with DIALOG search language to navigate the databases. Full-text articles are provided from more than 3,000 journals and 100 newspapers with more than 100 million records online. DIALOG@CARL is available for a flat annual fee beginning at $12,500 per connection for unlimited use of the databases on a per simul­ taneous user connection basis. http://muse.jhu.edu/ mailto:melanie@jhupress.jhu.edu April 1 997 / 239 CARL and the Research Libraries Group (RLG) have entered a partner­ ship to expand DIALOG@CARL to include RLG’s CitaDel databases and the RLIN Bibliographic Database. The CitaDel files are a set of international article-citation files that index and ab­ stract journals, conference proceed­ ings, books, and dissertations. The RLIN Bibliographic Database is a combined catalog created by more than 250 university libraries, muse­ ums, and archives containing more than 27 million titles. EBSCO a n d Faxo n o ffe r n e w services Under separate agreements, both the Faxon Company and EBSCO Infor­ mation Services will offer expanded subscrip­ tion services for electronic journals available via the new OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Col­ lections Online service. Under the agreements, a library will be able to subscribe through ei­ ther EBSCO or Faxon to a journal or a group of journals available via Electronic Collections On­ line, just as it would a print journal. Account information will be relayed by Faxon or EBSCO to OCLC, which will provide the library with access to the journal through the Electronic Collections Online account. Through a single Web interface the library will have access to full text from the journals it subscribes to as well as citations from all available journals. EBSCO will also provide its customers with a Web interface to its EBSCOnet databases of more than 256,000 serial titles available in vari­ ous formats from more than 49,000 publishers worldwide. EBSCO currently has approximately 1,000 online journals. M e n to r p ro g ra m r e a d y fo r ALA atten d ees in San Francisco ALA’s New Members Round Table is sponsor­ ing a mentor program to help new conference attendees make the most of the opportunities to learn, network, and participate at ALA’s con­ ference. If you would like to feel more com­ fortable attending conference or if you are a seasoned conferencegoer who would like to share your knowledge and experience by help­ ing someone negotiate a path among the many meetings, programs, exhibits, and acronyms, the Conference Mentor Program wants to hear from you. Mentors should plan to meet with mentees at least once during the conference, but more contact is encouraged. The participation form is available on the W eb at h ttp :/ / 128.118.90.101/ ala-n m rt/ mntrprg.html, or by contacting Emerita Cuesta, assistant dean of access services, Axinn Library, 123 Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11550- 1090; (516) 463-5076. OCLC a n d JSTOR to co o p erate in jo u rn a l sto rag e a n d access JSTOR, a nonprofit organization providing elec­ tronic access to backfiles of periodicals, and OCLC have agreed to cooperate to help the scholarly community take full advantage of tech­ nologies in disseminating academic research. As a first step, JSTOR and OCLC will work to­ gether to implement a disaster recovery plan for the JSTOR database which presently con­ tains more than one million pages of archival journal literature. ACRL “ G uidelin es fo r the P re p a ra tio n o f Policies on L ib rary Access” on W e b ACRL’s “Guidelines for the Preparation of Poli­ cies on Library Access,” prepared by ACRL’s Access Policies Guidelines Task Force, are now on ACRL’s homepage at http://www.ala.org/ acrl.html (under Publications, select Standards and Guidelines). The guidelines were approved at the 1993 ALA Annual Conference. Members of the task force included: Kathleen Gunning, chair, Peter V. Deekle, Helen B. Josephine, Nancy P. O’Brien, Carolyn Robison, and Na­ talie Schatz. 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