APPENDIX H:  CURRENT ACCESS AND DELIVERY SYSTEMS

CD-ROM available in the Library:
Some of these titles are available to single users and are mounted on machines at the Library, while others are available to the University community via the Local Area Network (LAN).

Single user:

• CANSIM - Canadian statistical data from census returns
• 1991 Census Profiles, Atlantic Region
• Grolier Encyclopedia
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Prophone Canada
• World Book Information Finder

Networked on the LAN:

• CBCA - Canadian Business and Current Affairs, an index to articles in Canadian journals and newspapers
• General Science Index - an index to articles in science journals
• Global Books in Print
• Humanities Index - an index to journals in the Humanities
• Social Sciences Index - an index to journal articles in the Social Sciences
• WAVES - an index to material produced by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans

CD resources awaiting installation on the LAN:
    Continuing type:

• Actualite Quebec - index and full-text for Canadian French language journals and newspapers, 1994-
• Canada News Discs - full-text for several Canadian newspapers, 1994-
• KIOSK - indexing and abstracting for 9 daily newspapers, 500 periodicals and contains the full-text of 120 titles
• MuSe - Music Search, which includes (1) Repertoire International des Litteratures Musicales and (2) Library of Congress Music database.

    Single purchases:

• Canada - Quebec Constitutional Debates
• Science Navigator
• Map and Facts

On the Internet via the University of New Brunswick consortium:

• ERIC from 1982
• PsychLit from 1974
• MLA from 1963 - an index to the annual bibliographies of the Modern Languages Association

Available through the OPAC:

• ERIC from 1982 - index to Education material
• Masterfile 650 - Index and abstracts for 1200+ journals and full-text for 650 of these

External databases:
    Chemical Abstracts

• the cost of student and faculty searches on the Chemical Abstracts database is paid for by the Library.

    Biological Abstracts

• the cost of student and faculty searches on Biological Abstracts is paid for by the Library.

    SwetScan

• Indexing to tables of contents of over 17,000 journals.  The Library pays a subscription fee for 100 users, and as a result the cost of each article delivered to users is a flat rate of $7.50.  Faculty are responsible for the cost of delivery.

    CarlUncover

• Indexing provided to the tables of contents of over 16,000 journals by the Colorado Association of Research Libraries.  The Library pays the annual subscription fee for faculty, but they are charged the fees set by CARL for the delivery of all material.

    ILLO

• The costs associated with operating the Interlibrary Loan system are subsidized by the Library.  Locating and ordering titles is cost-free to all users.  While students receive all titles free of charge, charges made by lending libraries are passed on to members of faculty and other patrons.

Margaret Fancy
April 1996

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