Subject: IRDIGEST October 6, 1999 Issue
From: Sue Cady (sac0@Lehigh.EDU)
Date: Tue Oct 05 1999 - 17:28:28 EDT
IRDIGEST - October 6, 1999 - Lehigh University Information Resources CONTENTS -- TELEPHONE, LAN, VOICE MAIL WORK ORDER REQUEST FORMS NOW ON WEB -- NEW SOFTWARE ACQUISITIONS -- Y2K: ARE YOU READY? -- MICROSOFT ACCESS 2000 -- CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY LIBRARY ADDED TO VIRTUAL LIBRARY DATABASES -- NEW ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIAS -- ACADEMIC UNIVERSE (LEXIS-NEXIS) -- ACM PUBLICATIONS ONLINE -- SCIENCE DIRECT EXTENDS ACCESS TO ELSEVIER JOURNALS Subscription, archive and contact information are at the bottom of this digest. TELEPHONE, LAN, VOICE MAIL WORK ORDER REQUEST FORMS NOW ON WEB Faculty and staff may now submit telephone and LAN work orders via the web at http://www.lehigh.edu/~intel/workorder.html. Please note that this form should not be used to request repairs; as usual, please call TLINE (x.85463) to report phone problems and contact your IR computing consultant for help with LAN problems. Faculty and staff can also request voice mail via the web at http://www.lehigh.edu/~intel/vmmain.html. NEW SOFTWARE ACQUISITIONS by Doris Oravec During each academic year, the Software Advisory Committee reviews many requests for software. This committee has a limited budget available for the purchase of software that will be used by the academic community. A complete list of the PC and workstation software approved by this committee during the past year is available at: http://www.lehigh.edu/~ludoc/user_services/software/new/newsoft98-99.html Y2K: ARE YOU READY? by Stacey Alderfer Information Resources is offering a seminar titled "Y2K: What you can do. This seminar will discuss hardware testing and its results, application software available to test the Y2K problem, the effects of personal files, and the location of information supplied by Lehigh and Microsoft. This two-hour seminar is being presented on November 3 at 1:10pm and again on November 11 at 10:10am. Please make time in your schedule for this important seminar (only 92 days to go!) MICROSOFT ACCESS 2000 by Stacey Alderfer Are you considering an upgrade to Office 2000? Do you use Microsoft Access? If so, please contact your Enterprise Information consultant before upgrading. There are compatibility issues with Microsoft Access 97 databases and Access 2000. Enterprise Information Consultants: Debbie Feldman 84751 df04 Jane Frounfelker 84007 jlf3 Gail Fullman 83113 gaf5 CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY LIBRARY ADDED TO VIRTUAL LIBRARY DATABASES CQ Weekly on the Web at http://libraryip.cq.com focuses on American politics and the activities of Congress. The Web version includes access to the full text of all articles published since 1983. Past articles may be searched by topic, date, bill number, committee name or other criteria, and there is a searchable archive of floor votes. The CQ Researcher at http://libraryip.cq.com is a weekly publication offering quick and reliable information, bibliographies and links to additional resources on a range of hot issues. The service is especially useful for undergraduates requiring an accessible and authoritative source for a speech or brief essay. Some recent examples of topics include hospital finances, medical marijuana, the global refugee crisis, boys emotional needs, and endangered rain forests. Users may browse through articles in the current issue or search for past articles using words, dates or other criteria. CQ Weekly on the Web and CQ Researcher online replace the print services of the same name. Contact Roseann Bowerman at rb04 or 83053. NEW ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIAS In addition to the Encyclopaedia Britannica Online at http://www.eb.com:180/, Lehigh has recently added the online versions of the Encyclopedia Americana and the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (http://www.lehigh.edu/~inref/databases/grolier.html). The online versions of these reference works combine authoritative information and currency for all levels of academic users. Articles are richly augmented by illustrations, maps, audio and video clips. An important feature is extensive hyperlinking to related articles, and links to additional Web sites that have been selected, rated and reviewed for their value to researchers. Special features from the Americana include the Americana Journal, a searchable database of current event news items compiled weekly and illustrated with AP photographs, and the Wall Street Almanac complete with articles, tables and graphs. Contact Kathe Morrow at kem6 or 83041. ACADEMIC UNIVERSE (LEXIS-NEXIS) On August 20, 1999 a newly designed version of the LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe product was released to subscribers. This redesign includes a variety of new features. The most sought after change is the enhanced searching option that allows a search to be conducted in the full-text of the contents rather than limited to the Headline- Lead Paragraph fields. The entire product has a new look and feel. You will discover that research categories have been collapsed into five major areas: News, Business, Legal research, Medical and Reference in an effort to be less confusing. This interface also provides the ability to link seamlessly to the Congressional Universe sister product for researching Congressional Information. Other enhancements include additional content for legal materials including U.S. patents, European Union legal information, state attorneys general opinions and assorted Martindale-Hubbell publications. Legal information researchers will appreciate the ability to search for case law citations across levels of courts or geographic districts. Many users will also be pleased to be able to E-mail search result citations to yourself or to even E-mail single documents in full-text version directly from the product. To try out this newly enhanced LEXIS-NEXIS product specifically designed for the academic community, connect to http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe or find it on the Library Services Web page under Databases. Contact Roseann Bowerman at rb04 or 83053. ACM PUBLICATIONS ONLINE The recently-acquired ACM Digital Library provides any Lehigh user, on or off campus, access to full-text [Adobe Acrobat PDF files] of all the ACM journals/transactions since 1991. As we write, ACM is converting more articles, so that coverage will eventually begin with 1985. Through ASA, the online catalog, users can link directly to specific ACM journals, scan them year-by-year, and view/print individual articles. Alternatively, users can go to the ACM Digital Library site at http://www.acm.org/dl/Search.html and search the entire collection by author, title, publication, keywords, or ACM categories. The ACM publications are obviously of particular interest to those in computer science/engineering, but are also useful for those working in business management, security, and graphics design. Speaking of graphics: the full-color illustrations are part of the package. Contact Sharon Siegler at sls7 or 83068. SCIENCE DIRECT EXTENDS ACCESS TO ELSEVIER JOURNALS >From early 1998 through August 31, 1999, Lehigh was an enthusiastic participant in the University of Michigan's PEAK program, which offered electronic access journals published by Elsevier Science, the world's largest science publisher. This program continues with Elsevier's ScienceDirect. Science Direct offers unlimited electronic full text access to all titles to which Lehigh holds print subscriptions and includes limited desktop document delivery of articles from additional Elsevier titles. Selected links to PEAK journals in the ASA catalog have been replaced with ScienceDirect links. Seminars for faculty and graduate students on ScienceDirect will be offered on November 3 and 9 (seminar signup: http://www.lehigh.edu/ir/irhelp/ir_seminars.html). Contact Christine Roysdon at cmr0 or 83049. Send your comments or suggestions for future topics by replying directly to the list. ******************************************************* TO SUBSCRIBE TO IRDIGEST: Send email to: listproc@lehigh.edu Type in the body of the message: subscribe irdigest <your name>. Call the IR Help Desk (84357) if you have any difficulty in subscribing. IRDIGEST archives are located at: http://www.lehigh.edu/lists/archives/irdigest
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