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HOLLIS Plus is of the latter variety. Our old reliable electronic card catalog has been beefed up over the past few months. Notably, the improvements have occurred not by adding more local functionality but rather by addition of gateways to outside databases. In short, HOLLIS is metamorphosing from a card...
Outside of libraries, HOLLIS Plus is most easily accessed from UNIX accounts at the far% prompt. Type "gopher hplus" to enter the system.
The new gopher front-end is perhaps the most useful improvement to HOLLIS. The need for many arcane texts, commands, like "choose hu," has been eliminated.
Moreover, gateways to the databases themselves are organized in a wonderfully logical fashion. One trek into the "HOLLIS Plus resources by subject" area makes this clear. Databases are no longer presented as "ERIC," "PAIS," and "RISM," but as "education," "law," and "music".
Perhaps the most useful feature of HOLLIS Plus is the inclusion of more research databases into the menu system. Taking advantage of gopher technology to its fullest, Harvard's card catalog now includes most of the obscure databases that were previously unavailable from standard HOLLIS terminals.