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UnCover

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Description:

UnCover, also known as CARL, is a database of current article information taken from 17,000 multidisciplinary journals. UnCover contains brief descriptive information about over 8,000,000 articles which have appeared since Fall 1988. Faculty and graduate students may create an UnCover profile and order articles from the database if the *** does not own them. The articles ordered are faxed to a number of your choice, and are usually delivered within twenty-four hours.

Articles under $35 (most articles fit into this category) are subsidized by the library, unless you have already ordered it. *** will not pay for you to order an article more than once, so please keep track of what you order.

UnCover also includes Reveal, a Table of Contents delivery service provided through your UnCover Account sent directly to your e-mail account.

For further information about Reveal, please see
http://uncweb.carl.org:80/reveal/.

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Access:

UnCover is available through the library's web site at ***

There are several methods of accessing UnCover; this email focuses on the simplest: the web version. You may search the UnCover database from anywhere, but you must be on campus (with an ip address ***) to order articles through UnCover.

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Setting Up a Profile

When you access UnCover through this url ***, click on the first link, "***" On the following screen, you should have two choices- use the first link if you wish to search the database without ordering anything. If you think you might order something, enter your id in form provided, and click on the icon to the right of the form.

When you first enter your id, UnCover should recognize who you are (you must be a graduate student or faculty member). If you get an error message, and you are a faculty member or a graduate student, please call *** at *** or email ***.

You will be asked to enter a new password. Enter a password that you will remember; you will have to use this password from now on when ordering from UnCover. You will be prompted to enter the password twice.

You will then be taken to the Search Screen, but before you perform a search you should establish your Profile. At the top of the screen, click on the "Edit Profile" button.

A form will be displayed and you will find that most of your information has been entered for you. Check the validity of this information and complete the blanks with the appropriate information.

Please enter your E-mail address: This is especially important in order to receive your Reveal results.

FAX Area Code and FAX Number: This FAX number should be one that is assigned to a FAX that is on 24 hours a day. If you do not have access to a FAX, you may use Interlibrary Borrowing's FAX: ***

Record the Profile Number that is located at the top of the page and keep it along with your password. This is UnCover's unique number for your account, if there are future problems with your account, this number will facilitate greater ease of service. You are now finished setting up your Profile. "Save Changes" button.

You are now ready to search.

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General Search Techniques:

Searching UnCover is not as sophisticated as some other databases available. Moreover, the web site can be very slow at times. I recommend using UnCover mainly for ordering articles you already have a citation for, and you know *** does not own.

UnCover does not usually provide abstracts of articles, so the keyword search is not as comprehensive as some other databases we have. The keyword search searches in the following fields: article title and subtitle, summary, journal title, and subject headings which describe the journal. The summaries are generally very short (one or two sentences). The "Search all Indexes" will search all the indexes, but then asks you to choose author or keyword. In other words, you cannot search by keyword AND author. Nor can you search multiple authors.

You may click on "UnCover Express" if you only want to retrieve articles that will be faxed to you within one hour.

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Ordering

Once you have found the article(s) you wish to order follow these steps:

From the list of articles page, click on the article title you would like to order.

At the full record of the article, check to see if this journal allows faxing of articles, as well as the price of the article. If it is under $35, and you have never ordered this article, the library will subsidize the cost.

At the full record of the article or from the article list, click the Mark for Order button. If the article is blocked because *** owns the journal (but not the issue you want), click on the "E-mail this citation" button. This will email the citation to the InterLibrary Loan office, and they will order it for you. Please include a note stating who you are.

Some of the articles will not have a "Mark for Order" icon. This is because some publishers do not allow faxing of articles due to copyright constraints. If this is the case, you must request the article through regular InterLibrary Loan.

From the list of articles page, click the Order from Marked List button.

From the list of marked articles, click the checkbox next to your article, then the Order Articles button.

You will then have a chance to edit your profile if necessary, when you are done click the Order Articles button. Please Note: Any changes you make to your profile at this screen will not be saved to your profile.

A page will appear telling you the article was successfully ordered. You should write down the article number to keep handy. You may also click the UnCover Reports button to verify that your article is being processed.

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As always, if you have questions about this database, feel free to e-mail or call me directly.

For more information about UnCover, please see ***

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