Year: 1999
Campus-based Entryways into the CDL Directory
The CDL Directory was designed to provide library web managers with the ability to create unique “entryways” into the Directory’s content. In this way, the campus libraries are able to maintain more control over the content that can be delivered […]
JSC Expanded Meeting
The CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) will be holding an all-day meeting on November 9 at UC Irvine to share information, procedures, and advice on negotiating multi-campus licenses for digital resources in the Humanities and Social Sciences. […]
Licensing Tool Kit Available
The Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections has assembled a licensing tool kit that is now available from the CDL Shared Collections Web site [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/]. Select “CDL Licensing Tool Kit”. The CDL tool kit includes information on licensing guidelines, selection […]
Online Archive of California — New Support via Grants from LSTA, IMLS
A $360,000 grant from the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), administered by the California State Library, will enable the creation of the Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA). A cooperative project involving nine OAC participants — UC Berkeley, UCLA, […]
BIOSIS Regeneration is Complete
The regeneration of BIOSIS Previews for 1993 to the present inaugurates a very different database from the one with which users are familiar. In both Telnet and Web interfaces, there are new indexes and publication types, and some of the […]
Academic Universe Changes (Linda Kennedy, Resource Liaison for Academic Universe)
On August 20, Academic Universe presented its new user interface. Although a few problems have been identified (some have been resolved by the vendor, and some require further work), the new interface significantly improves usability of the Academic Universe databases. […]
New Resources Available via the CDL Directory
a. Contemporary Women’s Issues (CWI) [http://www.cwidb.com/cgi-bin/login.exe?login=&password=&product=4] This English-language resource, produced by Responsive Database Services, Inc., provides full-text access to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, and research reports from non-profit groups, government, and international agencies are easily accessed through CWI. […]
CDLINFO Released Simultaneously on the Web
Starting with this issue CDLINFO will be released simultaneously as a Web document, in addition to its distribution through the CDLINFO-L email listserv. Responding to requests for an immediately available web version (historically the web version has followed email release […]
New Resources: Company of Biologists; Digital Dissertations
Digital Dissertations The Digital Dissertations database provides access to the full-text of all dissertations from University of California campuses since 1998. The first twenty-four pages from all other dissertations is also available. Also included, with more than 1.5 million entries, […]
January 2000 Release Description Available
In preparation for the January 5, 2000 release of the CDL web sites and services, and a November period of review and testing, a brief description of expected enhancements, changes, and new services is now available at: [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/]. The page […]