No.18
September,1998

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Implementation Status of Electronic Library Service

1 Overview of Recorded Content

At present the content being recorded begins from the month of August and encompasses 59 academic and scientific journals issued by 204 scholarly societies in a variety of fields. Of these, so far 42 academic and scientific journals issued by 160 scholarly societies have been recorded thus far. The recording work is continuing and the results will soon be available for use.

2 Overview of Software Supplied for Electronic Library Services

Elbrowser Version 3.0 is a dedicated electronic library application that runs under UNIX.

ProductOperating systemAvailable software
SUN Microsystems and compatible systems Solaris version (compatible with the Solaris 2.4, Solaris 2.5, and Solaris 2.5.1 operating system) elb-solaris2.4.tar.Z
(released February 1, 1998)
Sun OS version (compatible with the SunOS 4.1.3 and SunOS 4.1.4 operating systems running on an NIS host) elb-sunos4.1.3.tar.Z
(released February 1, 1998)
Sun OS nameserver (compatible with the SunOS 4.1.3 and SunOS 4.1.4 operating systems running on an a nameserver) elb-sunos4.1.3.tar.Z
(released May 18, 1998)
Solaris SOCKS version (compatible with the Solaris 2.4, Solaris 2.5 and Solaris 2.5.1 operating system with SOCKS running on a firewall proxy) elb-solaris2.4-socks.tar.Z
(released July 1, 1998)
NEC workstation (EWS4800)EWA 4800 version (compatible with the EWS-UX/V 4.2MP operating system) elb-ews.tar.Z
(released May 18, 1998)
EWA 4800 SOCKS version (compatible with the EWS-UX/V 4.2MP with SOCKS running on a firewall proxy) elb-ews-socks.tar.Z
(released August 20, 1998)
DOS/V personal computersDOS/V personal computer version (compatible with the Solaris 2.5.1 for x86 is being used in the operating system) elb-solaris-x86.tar.Z
(planned)
Hewlett Packard HP9000 amd compatiblesHP9000 version (compatible with the HP-UX operating system) elb-hp.tar.Z
(planned)

Electronic library plug-in software for personal computers (NACSIS electronic library plug-in software is used in combination with a WWW browser. Note: this is a beta version lacking a print function.)

ProductOperating systemAvailable software
Microsoft Windows95 or Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 or later
Note: 32 Mbytes of RAM memory is recommended.
Netscape Navigator/Communicatior Ver.3.0 or laterNetscape Navigator compatible plug-in software
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or later Microsoft Internet Explorer compatible plug-in software
Note: this software currently does not support Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later.
Apple Power Macintosh or other machine running Mac OS
kanji Talk 7.x or MacOS 7.6 or later
Netscape Navigator/Communicatior Ver.3.0 or later
or
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or later
Power Macintosh compatible plug-in software
Note: this software currently does not support Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later.

* The latest information on the distribution status of the various software applications is available at the following URL.
URL: http://www.nacsis.ac.jp/els/els-j.html


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