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books for the Orbis
Cascade Alliance
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New database serves to unite
libraries, increase materials
Summit,a new research
resource in University
libraries, grants access
to research materials
By Chelsea Duncan
News Reporter
A new Web resource at University li
braries provides students with an easier
way to access books from other libraries
and allows campus libraries throughout
the Northwest to cooperate
The resource, called Summit, offers
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students, staff and faculty access to
more than 22 million items in Ore
gon and Washington university and
college libraries.
John Helmer, executive director of
the Orbis Cascade Alliance, said the
service is more than just a new tech
nological advance.
"The only reason this works is be
cause these institutions banded to
gether to form an organization,"
Helmer said. "It's the right thing to do
to work together."
The Orbis Cascade Alliance is a
consortium with 27 member libraries
throughout the Northwest. Summit
combines the catalogues of these li
braries over the Web for students to
search for and borrow items that are
unavailable at their campus libraries.
The Summit catalogue provides access
to twice as many items than the Uni
versity offered with access only to the
Orbis catalogue.
The books usually arrive within two
or three days after students order them,
Helmer said. Students can access the
unique collections owned by each li
brary, which account for more than half
of the items available in the catalogue.
they would be things that are sort
of unique to their curriculum,"
I lelmer said. "The reality is there is
just so much published each year that
no one library can own everything."
Graduate student Kathy Burk said
she's been an avid user of Summit since
it became available during midsum
mer, ordering four or five books in the
last two months.
"I've been using it a lot," she said.
"I've found that it's been easier to find
stuff just in the last month."
With budget cuts and rising book
prices, Summit gives libraries a way to
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beat low funding by sharing books,
Helmer said. He added that although
Summit has been available for some
time now, the Web site will be sub
stantially finished on Wednesday
Along with the launch of Summit,
University libraries are offering a new
way to find full-text periodical articles
online. Director of Library Systems
Sara Brownmiller said that FindText
provides a comprehensive way to find
online text versions of articles instead
of searching for the printed versions.
The FindText Web site can be accessed
through each library7s home page.
Brownmiller said the service can
also be used with most of the library
databases such as Academic Search
Premier, a new version of Academic
Search Elite, which has increased the
electronic full-text availability by 30 to
40 percent.
"This is available to students any
time from anywhere," she said.
When students are searching in the
library databases for an article, the
FindText icon allows students to see
right away if the full text of the article
is available online as opposed to hav
ing to visit a journal's Web site to
search for it, Brownmiller said.
Junior Natasha Terry, who said
she's had trouble in the past finding
articles, tested the new service and
said she found it user-friendly. She
said she thinks it will be useful for fu
ture research.
"I've had times where I've found
stuff and times where I've found a
whole lot of nothing," she said about
past attempts to find articles without
the FindText service.
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