From: "Judith C. Eannarino" <jce_at_nlm.nih.gov>
National Library of Medicine to Unveil New Online Catalog, LOCATORplus, on
the Web on Monday, April 12
On Monday, April 12, the National Library of Medicine will unveil its new
web catalog, called LOCATORplus, which will allow anyone with Internet
access to find out what books, journals, audiovisuals, manuscripts, and
other items are contained in the world's largest medical library.
Many exciting new features will be available via LOCATORplus. Customers
using the catalog from the Web can search by author, MeSH subject, title,
conference name, keyword and many other specific fields, then e-mail the
results to themselves. Current receipts of both serial and monograph
material will be displayed along with information about material which is on
order or available electronically. Hotlinks to online journals will be
available from many records. Direct access to a variety of other resources
will be available from LOCATORplus including MEDLINE, MEDLINEplus, Images of
the History of Medicine, TOXNET, HSTAT, and other U.S. medical library
catalogs.
LOCATORplus is part of NLM's new integrated library system (ILS) which was
installed for in-house use in November 1998. The ILS is being used for
acquisitions, serials control, cataloging, collection management,
circulation and preservation. LOCATORplus is the ILS's online public access
catalog and serves as the retrieval engine for the Library's cataloging
records, replacing existing online access methods, such as Locator, CATLINE,
AVLINE and SERLINE. LOCATORplus brings together a number of previously
disparate databases, along with information formerly available only to
staff, using state-of-the-art information retrieval technology.
Beginning April 12th, NLM's LOCATORplus can be found at:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/locatorplus/
The site is updated daily.
For a preview of the system a Quick Start Tutorial can be found at:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/locatorplus/tutorials/quickstart/sld001.htm
Received on Sun Apr 25 1999 - 17:56:10 EDT