Gilreath, 'About UnCover', NCSU Libraries Newsletter v19n06 (April 1992)
 
_The NCSU Libraries Newsletter_
Volume 19 no. 6
April 1992
Gilreath, Charles L.02
"About UnCover"


Beginning this month, the Triangle Research Libraries Network 
(TRLN)--the libraries at NCSU, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Duke--is 
providing to users an electronic table-of-contents service 
called UnCover.  This service is created and marketed by CARL, 
Inc., the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries.  The database 
is built from the periodical holdings of CARL libraries such as 
the University of Colorado, University of Denver, and Denver 
Public.  Subject coverage is very broad, ranging from 
agriculture and engineering to literature, fine arts, and social 
sciences.

The database can be searched by author's name, article 
keyword, and journal title.  The vast majority of the journals 
included in the UnCover service are owned by one or more of 
the TRLN libraries and copies can be obtained locally.  CARL, 
Inc., however, also provides a for-fee document expediting 
service called UnCover2, through which users can place online 
orders for articles and have them faxed to them.  Costs for 
this service from UnCover2 vary, depending on the copyright 
royalty fees charged by journal pubishers, but they are 
typically about $9.50 per article.

A brief guide to the Uncover service is attached to this issue 
of the _Newsletter_.  For the present, the service is available 
to users who have Telnet capabilities.  The address for the 
service is TRLN.LIB.UNC.EDU.  The machine running the gateway 
software is currently resident at UNC-Chapel Hill, but within 
the next several weeks the equipment running the software 
will be moved to this campus.  At that time the Telnet address 
will change to UNCOVER.LIB.NCSU.EDU.  We are working as 
quickly as possible to provide access through the dataswitch 
as well.  If you have questions regarding the UnCover service, 
please call the Reference Department at ext. 5-2935.