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- Sept. 07
- Issue: 215
RLG Eureka Databases to Move to OCLC FirstSearch This Month
On September 16, 2007, all twelve databases that were formerly available on the Research Library Group’s (RLG) Eureka platform will be moved to the OCLC FirstSearch platform. These databases are:
- Anthropological Index
- Anthropological Literature
- Anthropology Plus
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
- Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
- Chicano Database
- FRANCIS
- Hand Press Books
- History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
- Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals
- Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies
- SCIPIO
Content will be available on both platforms from September 1-30, 2007. On October 1, the Eureka platform will be put to rest. Libraries that currently subscribe to any Eureka database need to know the following:
- OCLC will automatically move your Eureka subscription databases and administrative information to FirstSearch.
- If you do not currently have a FirstSearch account, OCLC will contact you before September 16, to send you a FirstSearch authorization and password, as well as provide you with trial access to FirstSearch so that you can get used to the FirstSearch platform prior to September 16.
- On September 16, you must use one of the FirstSearch URLs: http://firstsearch.oclc.org for manual logon access or http:firstsearch.oclc.org/FSIP for IP access.
- If you already have a FirstSearch authorization, your Eureka databases will be added to your FirstSearch authorization.
- If you have more than one FirstSearch authorization, OCLC will create a new FirstSearch authorization for just your Eureka databases. If you wish to move your Eureka databases to one of your existing FirstSearch authorizations, please let Joyce Rambo at Nylink know (ramboj@nylink.org; 800-342-3353).
- Usage statistics for your Eureka databases (March 2005-present) will be added to your statistics account on the OCLC Usage Statistics web site http://www.stats.oclc.org/. Log on with your FirstSearch authorization and administrative module password (or your usage statistics password if you’ve created one).
- Eureka usage statistics through February 2005 will not be moved to the OCLC Usage Statistics web site. These earlier statistics will only be available from the RLG User Activity Reports web site http://reports.rlg.org/ until September 21, 2007. Monthly and service year reports and CAMIO & RCM reports will be discontinued after September 21, 2007 as well.
This was the transition information from OCLC as of September 5; it is subject to change. If the dates change, Jen Hawkes (hawkesj@nylink.org) will send out an updated email to FirstSearch contacts. To check if you are the current contact please email Jen Hawkes.
For more information about the RLG to OCLC transition overall, please see: http://www.oclc.org/community/rlg/default.htm.
OCLC Reference and FirstSearch Contact Information
For more information about OCLC FirstSearch, please contact Nylink’s Joyce Rambo (ramboj@nylink.org) or Jennifer Hawkes (hawkesj@nylink.org).