Response: Tue, 23 Aug 2000
The intention of the "Special Cases" section of the Guide is that book review titles should be omitted. In other words, you should enter no more information than what the Guide says: "When entering book reviews be sure to enter the author of the review in the author field, and the author and title of the book reviewed in the title field. Enter the term "Reviews" in brackets following the author and title of the book reviewed." As to the order, the Guide has several examples, such as: Author: Marcelo de Souza Title: Paulo Freire. Pedagogia de Autonomia. [Reviews] As for reviews of more than one book, you should create a separate record for each book reviewed in the article, using the same pagination in each record. In this case, each record will look alike with the exception of the differing authors and titles of the books reviewed. In all other respects, this situation is no different from book reviews that review only one book.

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Response: Thu, 10 Apr 1997
You do not need to logoff unless someone else would like to login. To enter another title, go back to the display of Journals - to do that, follow the "see other issues" and "see other journals" links. This will display the list of all journals you have access to.
 
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Response: Thu, 10 Apr 1997. Updated 21 Jan 1998.
The data you enter goes into the working file for your institution. It does not immediately get added to the main database and will not be immediately visible through the search interface.  Data will be added periodically (once or twice a month) or as required by users.
Please see also: System Definition

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Response: Thu, 10 Apr 1997
For searching purposes the hyphen needs to go. If a user searches for "Gomez Hernandez" the system will NOT find "Gomez-Hernandez". Therefore, I suggest not entering the hyphens. Is this formally incorrect...?

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Response: Thu, 10 Apr 1997
Yes, in fact that's the way it's been done with earlier issues. Just enter both titles in the title field. This creates ONE record for the same article and makes it searchable in both languages. Separate the titles with a simple period ending the first title.

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Response: Thu, 10 Apr 1997
No subscripts or superscripts in ASCII... type "O2".

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Response: Thu, 10 Apr 1997
Well, the agreement was to enter just the starting page number, thus, enter simply "1". The ILL record will show "1-EOA", meaning, "1 to End Of Article."  Most journals do not give complete pagination information.

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Response: Thu, 10 Apr 1997
Do not insert blank lines: the system will discard them. Just enter a period and  keep typing the second title.

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Response: Tue, 04 Feb 2003
First, see if the non-roman text is translated within the article. Use that translation in place of the non-roman text. If the text is not translated, enter the following message in brackets: [texto en caracteres no romanos, solicite el artículo para ver el texto]

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Response: Thu, 10 Apr 1997
Simply enter as much of the page "name" as fits in the page field, which is 10 characters long. "Suplemento" will fit, but not so "Contraportada" which would become "Contraport".

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Response: Tue, 6 May 1997. Updated 21 Jan 1998.
Some interfaces (Mac Netscape 2.0) seemed not to like double quotes. In addition, because of a technical decision, double quotes can not be used in the database and will be converted into a single quote: '

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Response: Thu, 12 Dec 1996. Updated Mon, 14 Apr 1997; Tue, 6 May 1997; 21 Jan 1998.
Some interfaces (Macintosh Netscape, for example) don't allow tabbing from field to field. Other browsers (including Netscape 3.0 on Windows 95) on certain machines will let you tab, including tabbing and landing on a "button" -- however, they won't let you press "enter", you will have to click with the mouse.  I found that Communicator (Netscape 4.0) lets me tab down and up (with Shift-Tab) the fields. I can also tab into a buttons and press enter to move on.  This help speed up data entry - you don't need to point and click every time...!

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Response: January, 1998
Only if you are 100% certain that what you are seeing is an error.  Could it be misspelled on purpose?  Sometimes it is really hard to tell, unless you can see the whole article.  If a word is obviously mistyped, you should correct it, but be careful!

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Response: Tue, 22 Apr 1997. Updated 21 Jan 1998. 
Don't worry about the order in which you enter the articles: the system will try to show them in ascending page number order. The articles without a page number will be shown first, and those with letters in the page number field will appear last-- however, non-numerical page "numbers" will not be alphabetized in the data entry module. This is not a problem, because end users will not see these screens: they will
see the general query interface, and there the articles will appear in
order!

You may enter them in any order you wish- usually, the order they appear in the table of contents is easiest for data entry!

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Response: Tue, 29 Jul 1997. Updated 21 Jan 1998.
You can modify articles or issues at any time.  Any additions or changes will be immediately recorded in your file, which is stored in the LANIC server, seconds after you click on the "Add" button!

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Response: Tue, 26 Aug 1997
Netscape is running out of memory. Try increasing and/or clearing your cache (Options or Preferences menus).  This seems to be a problem with earlier versions of Netscape, particularly on Macintosh systems.  Talk to your systems administrator or computer advisor, perhaps it is time for a system upgrade ;-)

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Response: Thu, 30 Oct 1997
If all other last names were printed in upper and lowercase, except this one- then maybe this person insists on having his or her name in all uppercase? See what makes sense given the context that the information appears in, if you have access to the full article, check there for clues!

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Response: Tue, 28 Oct 1997. Updated 21 Jan 1998.
This is going to happen often, sometimes articles were entered twice (perhaps once at BYU, once by us) and one of the versions needs to be deleted.  Go into the list of articles for one of the issues that has this problem.  Print out the page. Then, try deleting one of the duplicated articles at a time: simply click on the "DEL" button that appears to the left of the article. The article you selected will disappear immediately. Repeat until you have only the articles you wish to keep.

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Response: Tue, 4 Nov 1997. 
Some of you have written to us about how slow the system seems to be.  Ning Lin, LANIC's technical director,informs me that the overall usage of LANIC has been increasing rapidly (and unexpectedly) about 30 % during the past few weeks.  This impacts the speed of all our processes.  Fortunately, there is a solution.  The data entry interface can be accessed via two URLs:

        http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/project/arl/ingreso
        http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/arl/ingreso

Each URL corresponds to a different (but 'equivalent') machine.  Should one of these prove slow, simply logout and try the other one.

Please remember that often, response delays are not caused by a particular server but by network problems. You can try using other UTexas resources (for example,www.utexas.edu) to rule out network problems.

Please let us know if you are still having problems. Gracias!

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Response: Wed, 14 Jan 1998
Please let Eudora Loh know about this, she will help you select a new title.

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Response: Thu, 22 Jan 1998
When an error occurs, please write down exactly what the screen says, or, whenever possible select "mail document" from your browser and send the screenful to LANIC.  Ning Lin, who is LANIC's technical director, tells me most of the errors (like "Server 500" Errors or "Document contains no data" errors) are happening because the LANIC server is extremely busy.

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