Virtual
Library of Veterinary Medicine and General Parasitology - Outline of Project
The library
of the School of Veterinary Medicine Hannover holds the German Research
Society’s Special Collection 22, Veterinary Medicine, General Parasitology
and in this function is responsible for the provision of literature. This
important task of science-and informationpolitical relevance shall be a
augmented by electronic documents In the project applied for there shall
be developed cooperation between those
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Learned
Societies
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Information
Centers
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Publishers
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Libraries
of relevance
for veterinary medicine and general parasitology which are making efforts
in the direction of
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Indexing
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Retrieving
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Providing
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Archiving
electronic
information and documents and offering an integrated package with. conventional
documents.
The library
maintains a homepage at:
http://www.tiho-hannover.de/index_e.htmservice/bib
/index.htm
with
links to our own subpages and others on the Internet. These links and those
to be added will have to be categorized. Here our "elib" (electronic library)
and online-contents will be kept. Besides these there will be links to
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An information-system
of veterinary medicine and general parasitology with an overview of its
subdivisions and the existing information tools therein (bibliographical
databases, subject based dictionaries, texts, topical servers etc.) with
direct access
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The integrated
subject oriented search in bibliographical databases with access to documents
and subjectbased internet search engines.
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The direct
search in general bibliographical holdings-systems (online catalogs, online-contents
databases etc.)
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Access to
gateways in the veterinary and biomedical sector – cooperation with VETGATE
and NOVAgate
Based upon
these profile- and alertservices are intended for a later date.
Cooperations
exist or are intended with the following institutions amongst others:
Deutsches Agrarinformationsnetz; NOVAgate; BIOME (here: Vetgate); Veterinary
Medicine Library of Virginia Polytechnic Insitute and State University,
Blacksburg, Virginia; Veterinary Medicine Library University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois; Bibliotheque de Medicine Veterinaire de L'Université
de Montreal; Flower-Sprecher Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York;
International Veterinary Information Service, Ithaca, New York; NETVET,
Washington, University, St. Louis, Missouri
Freely
available link collections on the internet will be screened, but inclusion
will be subject to evaluation criteria such as
http://www.who.int/hlt/virtuallibrary/English/evalulat.htm
resp.
http://
hitiweb.mitretek.org/docs/criteria.html
The establishment
of cooperations will be a major task in itself because of the technical
diversity and the differences in stage of development plus possible policy
restrictions.
Thee
Virtual Library of Veterinary Medicine and General Parsitology shall offer
a variety of data:
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Bibliographical data
in various formats
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Clasification
data
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Tables of
contents of journals
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Tables of
contents of congresses
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Abstracts
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Full texts
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Facts data
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