Number 10, September 1994
This fall the Library is making available to all faculty two information services from the UnCover Company.
The first, UnCover's new Reveal service, allows faculty to receive through electronic mail the table of contents listings of selected journals. Faculty who wish to use the service set up a simple profile that contains their electronic mail address and a list of journals they wish to monitor. They choose the journal titles from the UnCover database, which contains bibliographic information for over 17,000 current scholarly journals in all subject fields. The table of contents of each new issue of those journals is then sent to the faculty member automatically by electronic mail soon after its publication.
The second service is an expansion of the subsidized document delivery service that was begun on an experimental basis with selected science departments last year (Perspectives, May 1994). With this service faculty can order electronically the full text of journal articles they identify by searching the UnCover database or using the Reveal table-of-contents service. Articles are transmitted to a fax machine of their choice within twenty-four hours.
Since this latter service does incur an expense for the Library, faculty should use it only when they urgently need an article from a recent journal that the library does not own and there is not sufficient time for it to be delivered through normal interlibrary loan channels.
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