TOWARD AN ELECTRONIC JOURNAL ARTICLE DELIVERY SERVICE

APPENDIX A: GLOSSARY

• AAAS-American Association of Applied Science

• Ariel-Software developed by RLG to facilitate the transmission of journal articles over the Internet.

• ASCII-American Standard Code for Information Interchange; the standard for machine-readable coding of text data (alpha/numeric and special characters).

• ASTI-H.W. Wilson's Applied Science and Technology Index; journal article citation database

• BAI-H.W. Wilson's Biological and Agricultural Index; journal article citation database

• BI-Information Access Corporation's Business Index; journal article citation database.

• bit-mapped-The technique for digitizing print information as pictures rather than as machine-readable image character data. Bit-mapped data cannot be indexed or displayed on text-oriented terminals.

• CARL-Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries; for-profit organization that creates and markets journal article citation and abstracting databases.

• client/server-Structuring of software so that programs that interact with the user are separate from architecturethe programs responsible for managing the data; the two types of programs communicate through a standard interface.

• CD-ROM-Compact Disk-Read Only Memory; medium which is used by many information vendors for data storage and indexing; usually accompanied by vendor's proprietary user interface and access software. Requires a PC to access.

• Dialog-For-profit company that provides online search access to hundreds of commercial citation and information databases on a charge per connect-hour basis.

• EAI-Information Access Corporation's Expanded Academic Index; journal article citation database

• ERIC-Educational Resources Information Clearinghouse; indexes to the journal and report literature in education.

• FAXON-For-profit organization that creates and markets journal article citation and abstracting databases, and provides other services related to serials acquisitions and management.

• FCLA-Florida Center for Library Automation; SUS agency charged with supporting SUS-wide library automation needs.

• FIRN-Florida Information Resources Network; an agency of the Florida Dept. of Education which supports a telecommunications network accessing a variety of K-12, Community College and SUS information resources.

• IAC-Information Access Corporation; for-profit organization that creates and markets journal article citation and abstracting databases; also markets full-text article databases.ILL Inter-Library Loan; the policies and procedures through which librar ies borrow and lend books and photocopies of journal articles. Requires compliance with the copyright laws; can have fees associated with process; is feasible only for relatively low-demand items since the fees, staff resources and delivery time can inhi bit access for heavily used reference and undergraduate-oriented materials.

• Internet-A network of networks connecting academic and research institutions nationally and internationally.

• LMS-Library Management System; components of a library automation system that support the traditional functional areas of a library: public catalog, cataloging, acquisitions, and circulation.

• LUIS-Library User Information Service; the public access component of the services provided by FCLA to the SUS libraries.

• NERDC-Northeast Regional Data Center (Gainesville); the SUS agency that provides mainframe and network support services to FCLA.

• OCLC-Online Computer Library Center; a membership organization of 15,000 libraries which has built large bibliographic databases of library holdings and journal citations.

• RLG-Research Libraries Group; a library membership organization which has built large bibliographic databases of library holdings and journal citations.

• T1-Trunk group 1; bundling of telephone wires that collectively transmit up to 1.54 megabits of data per second (as compared to 9.6 or 56 kilobits in traditional lines).

• UMI-University Microfilms Inc.; for-profit organization that creates and markets journal article citation and abstracting databases; also markets bit-mapped image article databases and various microform products and services.