LIBPACS@UHUPVM1.BITNET (PACS Forum) (01/17/90)
Has anyone loaded any citation databases other than ERIC and MEDLINE into SPIRES? How difficult is it to load a new citation database? At various times I've talked with librarians who were investigating mainframe text management database systems as a way of loading citation or full-text databases (e.g., Data Retrieval's TextDBMS), but I've not heard of anyone actually doing it. Has anyone done it? Have you investigated it and decided not to do it (why?). Is anyone using software other than BRS/SEARCH, SPIRES, or a text DBMS for locally-mounted library databases? +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Phone: (713) 749-4241 | | Assistant Director For Systems BITNET: LIB3@UHUPVM1 | | | | University Libraries <<<<<<<<<<C>>>>>>>>>> | | University of Houston >>>>>>>>>>W<<<<<<<<<< | | Houston, TX 77204-2091 <<<<<<<<<<B>>>>>>>>>> | +----------------------------------------------------------+
USERVINO@SFU.BITNET (Walter Piovesan) (01/18/90)
----------------------------Original message---------------------------- We at SFU have loaded the grolier database and indexed ALL words in the articles. We are in the process of loading the MICROLOG Index, which is available from MicroMedia in Toronto. The load program is pretty straight forward. The beauty of using a DBMS like SPIRES is the one standard file def will suit many various database with slight modifications to account for different field names.
IZIE100@INDYVAX.BITNET (James Jay Morgan) (01/18/90)
----------------------------Original message---------------------------- In the medical community a lot of libraries have mounted data bases using the MUMPS programming language. MUMPS incorporates a lot of data management commands and thus has some of the attributes of a dbms. Public domain & shareware versions are available for various machines, and I understand IBM has developed a mainframe version. Most of the library applications use Minicomputer versions. The leader in the field has been Georgetown University which sells application programs for mounting medline, and more recently, ISI's Current Contents. Washington U. of St. Louis has a competing system. Most of these applications have been described in the medical and library literature; "mini-medline" is a useful keyword, and is the trademark of the Georgetown system. A sample citation is Broering, N.C., R.H. Larson, and H.E. Bagdoyan, "An Enhanced miniMedline System: Abstracts, More Journals, and CD-ROM", Serials Review, Summer & Fall 1986, pp.33-39. More recently Johns Hopkins has used MIIS, a dialect of MUMPS specific to Data General minis, to create the NLM TOXNET search software. They, with the University of Maryland have used this same software to mount Current Contents and Medline subsets. Further information about MUMPS may be had from the Mumps User Group. MUG has a newsletter, quarterly, and various shareware MUMPS programs available. MUMPS Users Group 4321 Hartwick Road, Suite 100 College Park MD 20740 (301) 779-6555, or FAX (301) 779-7674. Jim Morgan INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE LIBRARY