University at Buffalo: Reporter

ELECTRONIC HIGHWAYS
BISON: A Work in Progress

O where, o where did Readers' Guide go? And ERIC, PsycLIT, General Science Abstracts, Humanities Index, Social Sciences Index, Applied Science & Technology Abstracts? You'll find these or equivalent databases on BISON II's "Online Resources" homepage. BISON II, the University Libraries website, was inaugurated at the beginning of the fall semester. Its predecessor, BISON, was for a number of years the site of a wide variety of databases such as the ever-popular ones listed above. As the University Libraries moves forward to develop an integrated unix-based graphical system, the index databases are migrating over to the ever-developing BISON II.

ERIC (educational resources) is now available on BISON II's deluxe OVID search system. Unlike other licensed information resources, ERIC can be accessed by those logging on the BISON II from outside the UB network by typing the ID: eric and the PASSWORD: ericovid. Other BISON databases that have migrated to OVID on BISON II include Art Index and PsycLit.

The University Libraries no longer subscribe to the online Wilson indexes Readers' Guide Abstracts, Applied Science & Technology Abstracts, General Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Index and the Social Sciences Index. Rather, the contents of these databases, and much more, including many actual full-text articles are available on BISON II's Infotrac SearchBank databases General Reference Center and Expanded Academic Index.

You can reach these BISON II index databases from your home or offices provided you have a UB computer account and are coming in with the domain buffalo.edu. Though you might want to come into the University Libraries and test drive one of our beautiful new Sun workstations! The URL for BISON II is http://bison2.lib.buffalo.edu. If you do not have a graphical browser such as Netscape or Internet Explorer, you can search the plain text version of BISON II by typing lynx bison2.lib.buffalo.edu at your computer account system prompt. For questions concerning the index databases, contact Mike Lavin, mrlavin@acsu.buffalo.edu, Lockwood Library, 645-2611. For information on accessing BISON II with the domain buffalo.edu, contact the Computing Center Help Desk at 645-3542.

­ Gemma DeVinney and Don Hartman, University Libraries

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