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Online bibliographic searching

1. BIDS: Bath Information and Data Services
2. BOPAC2: Bradford OPAC 2
3. COPAC: University Research Library Catalogue
4. EDINA: Edinburgh Data and Information Access
5. JIBS: JISC Bibliographic Data Services User Group
6. MIMAS: Manchester Information and Associated Services (formerly MIDAS)
7. Research Assessment Exercise and Usage of BIDS-ISI
8. Survey on Attitudes to the Pricing of JISC-Funded Databases
9. UKeiG: UK eInformation Group
10. Zetoc

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BIDS: Bath Information and Data Services

BIDS is a national provider of network access to commercially supplied bibliographic database services for UK higher education and research. Many services require registration.
     Author: BIDS, Bath University
     Subjects: higher education research data, online bibliographic searching, scientific research uk, social science research
     DeweyClass: 025.04
     Resource type: bibliography, reference data

BOPAC2: Bradford OPAC 2

A project aimed at dealing with the problems of large and complex retrieval sets, possible from multiple databases, obtained via the Z39.50 protocol. The trial service allows cross-searching of at least 12 university library catalogues, using Z39.50 from within a Web browser.
     Author: University of Bradford Department of Computing
     Subjects: information retrieval, library catalogues in england, online bibliographic searching, z39.50
     DeweyClass: 025.04
     Resource type: opac

COPAC: University Research Library Catalogue

Internationally accessible union catalogue providing free access to the combined online catalogues from some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland.
     Author: Manchester Computing, Manchester University
     Subjects: higher education research data, library resource sharing, online bibliographic searching, research libraries
     DeweyClass: 025.3132
     Resource type: opac

EDINA: Edinburgh Data and Information Access

EDINA provides the UK Higher Education and research community with access to a library of data, information and research resources (requires registration).
     Author: EDINA, Edinburgh University
     Subjects: higher education research data, online bibliographic searching
     DeweyClass: 025.04
     Resource type: reference data

JIBS: JISC Bibliographic Data Services User Group

The User Group's principal purposes are to stimulate and maintain interest in the use of JISC supported online bibliographic services, to provide an effective and independent forum for discussion and information exchange between the users of these JISC services, and to influence collectively the development of them.
     Author: JIBS
     Subjects: online bibliographic searching
     DeweyClass: 020.6
     Resource type: documents

MIMAS: Manchester Information and Associated Services (formerly MIDAS)

MIMAS provides a range of national dataset services to the UK academic community. These include online access to strategic research and teaching datasets, specialist support (e.g. training courses and documentation), access to software packages and computing resources required for data storage.
     Author: MIMAS, Manchester University
     Subjects: higher education research data, online bibliographic searching, scientific research uk, social science research, uk population
     DeweyClass: 025.04
     Resource type: reference data

Research Assessment Exercise and Usage of BIDS-ISI

Compiled on behalf of the Database Resources Research Group (DDRG) who investigated the hypothesis that level of BIDS ISI usage is related to the criteria of research performance in universities. To do this, academic usage of the database was analysed in conjunction with institutional performance in the 1992 and 1996 Research Assessment Exercises (RAE).
     Author: Ajibade, Badekale & East, Harry, DRRG, City University.
     Subjects: higher education assessment, online bibliographic searching
     DeweyClass: 025.0
     Resource type: article

Survey on Attitudes to the Pricing of JISC-Funded Databases

This report presents the result of a survey concerning seven priced online services that are available to the academic community as a result of JISC initiatives. Compiled on behalf of the Database Resources Research Group (DRRG).
     Author: East, Harry & Leach, Kathryn
     Subjects: digital library use, higher education research data, online bibliographic searching
     DeweyClass: 025.0
     Resource type: article

UKeiG: UK eInformation Group

A well-established forum for all information professionals, users and developers of electronic information resources. It promotes and advances the effective exploitation and management of electronic information and offers a wide range of resources including seminars and workshops. Members can access its e-journal eLucidate and its popular series of Factsheets. It is a special interest group of CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals).
     Author: UKeiG
     Subjects: information retrieval, internet users, library organisations, online bibliographic searching
     DeweyClass: 020.6
     Resource type: institution

Zetoc

Provides access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. It covers 1993 to date, and is updated on a daily basis. It includes an email alerting service, to enable you to keep up-to-date with relevant new articles and papers. Records are freely available to UK further and higher educational institutions.
     Author: MIMAS, Manchester University
     Subjects: library catalogues in england, online bibliographic searching
     DeweyClass: 080
     Resource type: opac