***Apologies for cross-posting***

MIMAS, in association with the British Library and the JISC, is 
pleased to annouce the launch today, 26th September, of the new ZETOC 
service.  

ZETOC provides access to the British Library's Electronic Table of 
Contents database of over 15 million article titles derived from the 
20,000 most important research journals in the world, dating back to 
1993. It is updated daily with approximately 10,000 new additions. 
The database includes a unique collection of over 100,000 conference 
papers, indexed to title level.  

ZETOC is available via a web interface at htpp://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk 
and as a Z39.50 target, allowing searching via EndNote, Bookwhere 
etc. - see web site for more details.  

You may access the ZETOC database if you are a member of a UK Higher 
or Further Education institution. A list of eligible HE and FE 
institutions is available on the JISC Web site. (ZETOC is not 
currently available to the Research Councils, but discussions with 
the JISC are on-going.) The ATHENS administrator(s) at your site will 
have been notified of this new resource already.  

The British Library are funding the development of the service 
through to March 2001, thereafter, JISC have agreed to fund the 
running of the service until at least August 2003.  

Free training sessions, giving an overview of ZETOC and BL's own 
inside service, are currently being run at regional centres around 
the country - see the ZETOC web site for details.  

Note - During October, 'ZETOC Alerting' will become available - 
meaning you can choose to be emailed the table of contents from as 
many journals as you wish. These will be sent on the day the new data 
is loaded into the database, which can be just 72 hours after 
publication.

Regards,
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Alison Murphy
ZETOC Helpdesk            |  Tel: +44 (0)161 275 7919
Manchester Computing      |  Fax: +44 (0)161 275 6040
University of Manchester  |  Email: [log in to unmask]
Oxford Road
Manchester   M13 9PL
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