MELVYL (R) System - The University of California Catalog _A_d_d_r_e_s_s: Division of Library Automation University of California Office of the President 300 Lakeside Drive, 8th floor Oakland, California 94612-3550 _E_m_a_i_l: melvyl@dla.ucop.edu _P_h_o_n_e: (510) 987-0555 (MELVYL Catalog Helpline) FAX: (510) 987-0328 _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n The MELVYL catalog is a computer-based library catalog of over 7 million unique book titles representing more than 11 million holdings of all libraries in the nine-campus UC sys- tem and the California State Library. The catalog contains records of book and periodical (serial) holdings, and other materials such as maps, films, musical scores, and sound recordings. Collections strengths include agriculture, dry lands, oceanography, entomology, performing arts (especially film and television), photography, Californiana, materials on Mexico and Central America, 17th and 18th century British literature, health sciences, science fiction, and many oth- ers. The periodical file, containing more than 640,000 unique titles of newspapers, journals, proceedings, etc., includes the holdings of Stanford University, the University of Southern California, the nineteen-campus California State University system, and selected other libraries. The MELVYL catalog also includes two article abstracting and indexing files-MEDLINE and Current Contents. Use of these files, unlike the books and periodicals files, is restricted to the UC community. The MELVYL MEDLINE database contains the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database, which _________________________ The information in this section is provided in accor- dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front of this guide. December 17, 1992 NNSC Section 2.2, Page 1 includes article citations indexed from health sciences journals from 1966 to the present. The Current Contents file, from the Institute for Scientific Information, con- tains citations to journals in seven disciplines. Other databases include some IAC files and Inspec. The "DLA Bulletin" and "Mynd of the MELVYL Catalog", two publications describing the online catalog and its develop- ment and use, are also available online. The MELVYL Online Catalog also provides TELNET access to other remote library systems. _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _A_c_c_e_s_s The system is on the Internet, on host "melvyl.ucop.edu" (192.35.222.222). _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _t_h_e _C_a_t_a_l_o_g The MELVYL Online Catalog and CALLS are universally avail- able. Access to MEDLINE and Current Contents files are res- tricted under a license agreement to the University of Cali- fornia faculty, staff, and students. _M_i_s_c_e_l_l_a_n_e_o_u_s For additional information, contact: Clifford Lynch, Director (calur@uccmvsa.bitnet, lynch@postgres.berkeley.edu) (510) 987-0522 Mike Berger, Assistant Director for Planning (mgbuc@uccmvsa.bitnet) (510) 987-0563, (510) 642-3466 Mary Engle, Programmer/Analyst (meeur@uccmvsa.bitnet, engle@cmsa.berkeley.edu) (510) 987-0552 Laine Farley, MELVYL User Services (lxfol@uccmvsa.bitnet) MELVYL is a trademark of the Regents of the University of California. December 17, 1992 NNSC Section 2.2, Page 2