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Most useful services provided by the Science and Engineering Library:

• Virgo
• INSPEC
• LEO
• Science Citation Index

Virgo, the University of Virginia Library's Online catalog system, includes six databases:

1. VCAT - UVa Library Catalog
   VCAT provides holdings information about books, journals, audiovisuals, government documents, and special collections.
2. WILS - Wilson Periodical Indexes
   WILS provides citations to journal articles from the following indexes: Applied Science and Technology, Art, Biological and Agricultural, Business Periodicals, Education, General Science, Humanities, Readers' Guide Abstracts, and Social Sciences. WILS is updated monthly.
3. CART&CCON - Current Contents
   CART contains citations with abstracts for recent articles in journals indexed by Current Contents, an index to recent issues of over 6500 scholarly journals. CCON provides the contents pages for each journal issue. CART and CCON are updated weekly.
4. ABII - ABI Inform Business Abstracts
   ABII provides citations with abstracts for articles in approximately 800 business journals. ABII is updated monthly.
5. NABS - Newspaper Abstracts
   NABS provides citations with abstracts for articles in 28 major newspapers. NABS is updated weekly.
6. VIRTUAL - Other Library Catalogs
   VIRTUAL provides access to online catalogs from other libraries such as GMUL, George Mason University Library, and VCUL, Virginia Commonwealth University Library.

Accessing Virgo

Via Internet: http://virgo.lib.virginia.edu

The INSPEC database is an abstracting and indexing service produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers. It provides access to the world's literature on all aspects of physics, electronics, and computing.

There are several methods of accessing INSPEC:

1. Dialog Database - accessible in any UVa library, and you must ask library staff to log you on. Covers 1969-present. Updated weekly.
2. First Search Database - accessible in any UVa library, and you must ask library staff to log you on. Covers 1987-present. Updated weekly.
3. CDROM - accessible in any UVa library, on an Argus workstation or networked CDROM workstation. Covers 1991-present. Updated Quarterly.

The following information was taken from a handout in the library on INSPEC on CDROM.

Subjects

Physics, electronics, electrical engineering, computer science, control, and information technology.

Contents/Coverage

• contains citations of journal articles, conference proceedings, books, technical reports, and dissertations
• English-language index, with abstracts
• covers 1991-present and is updated quarterly

Searching Pointers:

• you can search only one year at a time
• Esc will return you to the previous level; it also aborts a search that is taking too long.
• truncate a root or term with a question mark to retrieve all variants.
  animat? retrieves animation, animators, animating
• boolean operators can be used:
  and will narrow your search, e.g. cat and mouse
  or will widen you search, e.g. radio or television
• to help you form a search statement, press F6. Many types of index terms will display, including: authors, title words, treatment terms, document type, conference title, conference location, etc.

LEO is a service which links the resources of many university libraries together into a single resource pool. Items you find using Virgo, INSPEC, or the Science Citation Index, may not be physically located at UVa. In order to obtain the resource, you need to request it via Interlibrary Loan from another library. You can use the ILL/LEO electronic service (log in as leo) to submit your request electronically or fill out one of the yellow ILL/LEO request forms available at all University libraries. The latency time between when you fill out your request and when you receive the resource varies, but it usually takes longer than a couple of weeks. If you know you will be needing a resource for a deadline, it is better not to procrastinate if you will be using LEO to get it.

As the Guide to CD-ROM Resources on the Network Science and Engineering Libraries pamphlet states, the Sicence Citation Index is an...

Index to feature articles and significant items (notes, letters, editorials) from journals in the sciences. It covers 33,000 major journals across 100 scientific disciplines such as agriculture, biology, chemistry, environmental sciences, engineering and applied sciences, medicine, and physics. In addition to conventional author, title, and subject indexes searches, it provides citation index search for the references cited in the articles.

If you need help with this tool, or any other at the library, then email the Library Systems Office. Note that the Science Citation Index is available on PCs, and it is also available in books at the library. Keep in mind that just because you find the perfect article in the Index, it`s not necessarily in any library here at The University. The best way to see if its here is to use Virgo