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K McKern

Issue 39
9 February 2000

1. THIS WEEK: Proquest goes live
2. Informit Online
3. NewsText Content Expanded
4. News on the Web
5. Quick links
6. ilanetweb Developments
7. Genome update
8. Second Fall
9. How to subscribe to, and unsubscribe from, elogon & talk to ILANET
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THIS WEEK: Proquest goes live

Proquest, a major addition to our service suite was launched on 1 January
2001
and is now available from our International Database Page.
Proquest provides convenient search and retrieval of 8,000 publications,
with many in full text and full image format.

The medical library combines MEDLINE indexing with more than 200 key medical
titles in subjects including nursing, pediatrics, neurology, pharmacology,
cardiology,physical therapy, and others.
Newspapers on Proquest include the major North American Daily's.
The research Library includes over 2,000 academic quality periodicals in a
wide range of subject areas.

Much like NewsText and Dialog Select, you only pay when you click on your
search results so ILANET members can easily evaluate how this resource can
serve their needs.

Information about the databases available and individual titles can be
found at:

http://www.umi.com/cgi-bin/TitleForm

2. Informit Online

RMIT Publishing and ILANET are pleased to announce that we will offer
Informit Online, with its highly respected and very comprehensive Australian
content, on a pay-as-you-go basis from the 19 February 2001.

Charging will be activity based, with a flat fee of $1.50 per action.
"Actions" include logging on, selecting a database, sending a search
string, merging searches, requesting the emailing of results or similar
activity.

This will correspond to a charge of $10.00 to $16.00 dollars for a typical
search, irrespective of the database. The major benefit for ILANET members
is that you do not have to maintain a subscription to a database you might
use only occasionally.

Informit includes databases such as APAIS (Australian Public Affairs
Information Service),AGIS (Attorney-General's Information Service), IREL
(Australian Industrial Relations Database),AMI (Australasian Medical
Index), CINCH (Australian Criminology Database),FAMILY (Australian Family &
Society Abstracts), and TAXABS (Australian Taxation Abstracts).

3. NewsText Content Expanded

NewsText now carry the content of 160 Australian Newspapers and a number
of Newspapers from New Zealand, including:

Waikato Times (Waikato, The Daily News (Taranaki, Sunday Star Times
(Auckland, The Timaru Herald,The Southland Times,The Nelson Mail,The Evening
Standard(Manawatu, The Dominion (Wellington, The Press (Christchurch) and
the Evening Post (Wellington).

A full list can be found at:

http://www.ilanet.net.au/help/news_text_list.shtml

4. News on the Web

Rather than go to a single site to look for news items, it is possible to
search from internet based services that index all major news resources.

The Pandia newfinder searches through BBC, CNN, MSNBC, Yahoo, The
Washington Post, NewsHub and Moreover.

http://www.pandia.com/news/index.html

MoreOver specialise in providing news content for websites and have an
excellent search engine for current news.

http://www.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?o=portal&c=Top%20stories

5. Quicklinks

Suite 101 includes articles, discussions, and Internet resources of interest
to
librarians and information professionals.

http://suite101.com/welcome.cfm/librarians_information_science

Virtual Learning Resource Center has a search engine that searches the
following
resources:
About.com, Academic Info, InfoSeek Web Guide, Librarians' Index to the
Internet, My Virtual Reference Desk, Big Hub, Bibliomania, BUBL Information
Service, StudyWeb, Michigan Electronic Library, Smithsonian, Suite101,
InfoPlease.com, the LibrarySpot, the Awesome Library.

http://www.virtuallrc.com/

Selective subject guides to many disciplines, references, electronic texts
and tutorials that are both credible and annotated can be found at Academic
Info.

http://www.academicinfo.net/index.html

Oral history programmes made by the BBC since 1997. Includes
recollections of the British women's suffrage movement, the
Falklands war, WWI, Bedlam, WWII, etc.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/20cvox/audio.shtml

Reports from the National Information Standards Organization can be
downloaded for free. Available reports include Paper standards for
preservation,
Z39.50, guidelines for constructing thesauri and others.

http://www.techstreet.com/nisogate.html

University of California, California State University, and other university
and college librarians have contributed to building INFOMINE, an excellent
index to university grade resources.

http://infomine.ucr.edu/

6. ilanetweb Developments

A new ILRS  Code has been released by the National Library:

www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/ilrscode/ilrscode.html

The code has changed some of the existing principles and there are new
service levels. ILANET is currently redeveloping our ILL system to reflect
these changes. You will be able to easily identify requests as express,
rush,
priority, and core when it is sent to the lending library.

For more information contact support@ilanet.net.au

You can now search the ILANET domain via Google from:

www.ilanet.net.au/FREE/search.html

Training in the use of ilanetweb is currently available in Sydney,
contact the support desk for more information.

7. Genome Update

This week saw the first annotations to the draft of the human genome
recently concluded. Specifically, information as to the actual
number of human genes, a third of earlier estimates.

Analysis of the significance of this discovery:

http://www.celera.com/genomics/genomics.cfm

A timeline of acheivements in molecular biology:

http://www.sciencemag.org/genome2001/1195.html

A Key paper of this outstanding scientific effort:

http://www.sciencemag.org/genome2001/1304.html

8. Second Fall

In a challenging piece of "future history" Anatol Lieven, British journalist
and
senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment For International Peace takes a
look
at a world where the darker side of developments in science and soceity are
played out.
This article has recently been featured on Radio National's "Religion
Report" and
pictures a future we might wish to avoid.

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/highlights/essay_lieven_secondfall/index.
html

Prospect Magazine also has a number of other interesting articles:

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/highlights/index.html

9. How to subscribe to, and unsubscribe from, elogon & How to talk to
ILANET

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