About UnCover

CARL is the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries. Through its database, UnCover, CARLprovides article level access to the journal collections of selected CARL System libraries. CARL also has plans to extend the database to include journal collections from the UK, Europe and the Pacific. The UnCover database contains 15 000 unique journal and magazine titles and is still growing. More than 5 000 000 articles are available for delivery, in twenty four hours or less, direct to your fax machine.

You may search a wide variety of journal titles ranging from Business History to Brain Research. Using a computer, and appropriate communications hardware and software, you can access UnCover and search for articles on particular topics (word searching), on known authors of articles (author searching), or from particular journal titles (title searching). You may also search for a journal title and then "recreate" the table of contents of a particular issue.

The database is continually updated at the rate of 3 to 4 000 articles per day and is current within 24 hours of the receipt and processing of the journal issues. Title records also include information on the status of each journal issue, when it was received or when it is expected in the library.

Once you have identified an article of interest you may decide to order the article and have it faxed to your personal fax number. Once ordered, articles usually take only twenty four hours to be delivered (this time varies in some cases).

Copyright royalties are carefully tracked and paid to publishers. Costs can be charged to any valid VISA or MASTERCARD. Alternatively, you may decide to complete an Interlibrary Loan Request Form (for those eligible), submit the request through your Interlibrary Loan Office and have your department charged for the usual cost of an overseas request.