UnCover is a service of the Colorado Association of Research Libraries (CARL) which provides access to the tables of contents of more than 12,000 journals, including some 4 million articles. The journals are those held by the Colorado consortium's member libraries, but do NOT include such popular press periodicals as Time and Newsweek. You can search for articles by a particular author (a NAME search), or articles with specific words in their titles (a TITLE search), or examine the table of contents of a periodical issue by issue (a BROWSE search). It is also possible to combine terms using Boolean AND, OR and BUT NOT.

You could use UnCover to find

the full title of an article when compiling a bibliography
articles by a particular author in several different journals
articles on a particular subject (a wider range of journalsthan Periodical Abstracts, but without abstracts; a broader range of journals than FirstSearch, but only from the last 4 or 5 years)

TO CONNECT TO UNCOVER:

Choose UnCover from the "Commercial Databases" item on the Liberty menu, or telnet to database.carl.org (If you use telnet, when asked to identify your terminal choose 5 (VT100); choose UnCover, then follow the instructions on the screen to construct your search)

You should be forewarned that UnCover is often SLOW in afternoon hours!

TO EXIT: type //exit or <]> and type QUIT or

TO SPEED UP YOUR SEARCH:

UnCover's Quick Search uses the following conventions:

//wphotosynthesis   finds articles with 'photosynthesis' in the title

//nstephen jay gould  finds articles by Stephen Jay Gould

//tamerican anthropologist  finds the journal American Anthropologist

You can combine a name search with a journal-title search:
//nkafatos/genetics  finds articles by Fotis Kafatos in TWO journals:
     Trends in Genetics and Developmental Genetics

UnCover permits truncation: boat* would find boat, boats, boater, etc.