






                  The University of California MELVYL (R) Catalog


            _A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
            Division of Library Automation
            University of California
            Office of the President
            300 Lakeside Drive, 8th floor
            Oakland, California 94612-3550

            _E_m_a_i_l: lynch@postgres.berkeley.edu

            _P_h_o_n_e: (415) 987-0555 (MELVYL Catalog Helpline)


            _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n

            The MELVYL catalog is a computer-based  library  catalog  of
            more  than  5.5  million  unique book titles representing 11
            million holdings of all libraries in the nine-campus UC sys-
            tem  and the California State Library.  The catalog contains
            records of book and periodical (serial) holdings, and  other
            materials  such  as  maps,  films, musical scores, and sound
            recordings.  Collections strengths include agriculture,  dry
            lands, oceanography, entomology, performing arts (especially
            film and television), photography,  Californiana,  materials
            on Mexico and Central America, 17th and 18th century British
            literature, health sciences, science fiction, and many  oth-
            ers.

            The periodical file, containing  more  than  640,000  unique
            titles  of newspapers, journals, proceedings, etc., includes
            the holdings  of  Stanford  University,  the  University  of
            Southern  California,  the  nineteen-campus California State
            University system, and selected other libraries.

            The MELVYL catalog also includes two article abstracting and
            indexing  files-MEDLINE  and Current Contents.  Use of these
            files, unlike the books and periodicals files, is restricted
            to  the  UC community.  The MELVYL MEDLINE database contains
            the current  five-year  file  of  the  National  Library  of
            Medicine's   MEDLINE   database,   which   includes  article
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            The information in this section is provided  in  accor-
            dance  with the copyright notice appearing at the front
            of this guide.




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            citations  indexed  from  health  sciences  journals.    The
            Current  Contents  file,  from  the Institute for Scientific
            Information, contains one year of citations to  journals  in
            seven disciplines.

            The _D_L_A _B_u_l_l_e_t_i_n and _M_y_n_d _o_f _t_h_e _M_E_L_V_Y_L _C_a_t_a_l_o_g, two  publi-
            cations  describing  the  online catalog and its development
            and use, are also available online.  The MELVYL catalog also
            provides TELNET access to other remote library systems.

            _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _A_c_c_e_s_s

            The system is  on  the  Internet,  on  host  melvyl.ucop.edu
            (31.1.0.1, 31.0.0.11, 31.0.0.13, 31.1.0.11)

            _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _t_h_e _C_a_t_a_l_o_g

            The MELVYL Online Catalog and CALLS are  universally  avail-
            able.  Access to MEDLINE and Current Contents files are res-
            tricted under a license agreement to the University of Cali-
            fornia faculty, staff, and students.

            _M_i_s_c_e_l_l_a_n_e_o_u_s _I_n_f_o_r_m_a_t_i_o_n

            For additional information, contact:

            Clifford Lynch, Director
            (calur@uccmvsa.bitnet,  lynch@postgres.berkeley.edu)   (415)
            987-0522

            Mike Berger, Assistant Director for Planning
            (mgbuc@uccmvsa.bitnet) (415) 987-0563 (415) 642-3466

            Mary Engle, Programmer/Analyst
            (meeur@uccmvsa.bitnet, engle@cmsa.berkeley.edu)  (415)  987-
            0552

            Laine Farley, MELVYL User Services
            (lxfol@uccmvsa.bitnet)

            MELVYL is a trademark of the Regents of  the  University  of
            California.









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