(With apologies for cross-posting)
COPAC Update: New Libraries Available
COPAC is an internationally accessible catalogue giving unified free
access to some of the largest university research library collections
in the UK and Ireland. A *new release* of COPAC has just been made
available containing a number of changes:
1. New libraries:
The online catalogues of two more libraries are now available on COPAC.
* The Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine
* The University of London Library
This brings the number of library catalogues on COPAC up to eight,
with more to be added shortly.
2. Local data:
More local data is available eg. details of which branches of a library
have copies of a document.
3. Improved currency:
Update files are being added as they are supplied by the libraries,
ensuring the currency of the database. On the Web Interface a Library
Update page is changed automatically whenever new records are loaded
into COPAC, allowing you to check when records were last added for a
particular library.
4. Extended search facilities:
You can now search for: a specific library eg. Cambridge
a much wider range of languages
5. Web Interface only - Download record display:
When carrying out a Web Interface search you can now choose between
the usual Brief Display and a Download Display. The latter displays
100 records at a time, in a format designed for easy incorporation of
the records into personal bibliographic software. You can use your
browser's own download facility to save the records.
It is already possible to download records via email in the Text
Interface.
6. Searching COPAC
To access COPAC you can use the Web Interface at:
http://copac.ac.uk/copac/
or the Text Interface using telnet:
telnet copac.ac.uk
username and password are both copac
For further information or assistance contact the COPAC Helpdesk:
Email [log in to unmask]
Tel: 0161 275 6037
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Dr. Shirley Cousins - The COPAC project is
COPAC Help Desk ([log in to unmask]) funded by JISC and uses
COPAC Project, Manchester Computing, data supplied by CURL -
University of Manchester
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Fax: 0161 275 6040 Tel: 0161 275 6037
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