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 The British Library have announced a free Table of Contents (TOC) service for UK Higher Education communities.
zetoc will provide free access to the British Library Electronic Table of contents (ETOC) database - a vast research resource of 15
million journal articles and conference papers, to which 10,000 are added daily.
zetoc service is a partnership venture with Manchester Information & Associated Services (MIMAS), based at the University of
Manchester and the Joint Information Systems Committee of the UK Higher Education Funding Councils (JISC). The initiative forms an important part of JISC’s plans to establish
The Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER), a managed environment for accessing quality assured information resources on the Internet.
The service is available now. By the end of October MIMAS intend to integrate a free Table of Contents alerting service in zetoc.
By mid-2001: zetoc will be a fully integrated search, alerting and article ordering service, with
an article ordering link direct to the British Library Document Supply Centre.
The interface is user-friendly and comparable to OPAC 97 and COPAC, and thus will be familiar
to users of those services. Search is by keyword and/or a choice of other parameters. The service uses the Z39.50 protocol which offers seamless searching across a range of databases.
It thus fits comfortably into the range of services already provided by MIMAS for the UK academic community.
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