From: "Elizabeth Wahl" <BL.ESW_at_RLG.ORG>
Web Browser Access and New, International Files Added to RLG's
CitaDel Service
The Research Libraries Group (RLG) recently added another set of
important scholarly files to its article-level information discovery
and delivery service, CitaDel; and in January 1997, RLG will be
offering multiuser subscription access to all CitaDel files through
its new "Eureka on the Web" searching interface.
(RLG will continue to provide the telnet version of Eureka,
currently the most widely used searching option for CitaDel files.)
Two dozen RLG members have already started using Eureka on the Web,
which combines Eureka display designs and overall methodology with
the point-and-click convenience of a Web browser.
Five new or enhanced files significantly increase the number of
unique CitaDel resources, bringing the carefully selected file array
to 24 and giving it an increasingly international focus.
In August and September, RLG released two files from the French
Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST):
FRANCIS (FRA)--over one million records culled from 3,000 journals,
books, dissertations, and other documents in the humanities and
social sciences; and PASCAL (PAS)--more than three million records
covering major French and international research in science and
technology. Together these represent the world's largest
collections of multilingual, multidisciplinary sources for
international research.
In October, RLG installed a third file, Inside Information Plus (IIN
Plus), an enhanced version of CitaDel's current awareness file,
expanded to cover all 21,000 most frequently requested periodicals
from the British Library's Document Supply Centre.
In December, RLG unveiled the Bibliography of the History of Art
(BHA)--a critical tool for art historical research produced by the
Getty Information Institute (GII) in collaboration with INIST. The
unique CitaDel version of BHA integrates its predecessor art
indexes--RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) and
RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie).
BHA provides extensive subject access (including abstracts) to the
current literature on European and American art from the 4th century
to the present, both books and articles. It is the first GII
art-related file to be made available online by RLG through the
RLG-GII Distributed Database Initiative announced last March. (See
www.rlg.org/strat/projahip.html for more information.)
Coming in spring 1997 is an expanded version of CitaDel's History of
Science and Technology (HST) file, incorporating the Italian
National Bibliography of the History of Science (Bibliografia
Italiana di Storia della Scienza).
Other national science and technology bibliographies are expected to
follow, ultimately making HST an international bibliographic
database of the history of science, technology and medicine, as
recommended by the Commission on Bibliography and Documentation of
the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science
(IUHPS).
More information on CitaDel and Eureka on the Web can be found at
RLG's Web site: www.rlg.org.
Received on Thu Dec 19 1996 - 16:54:08 EST