Year: 2001
Company of Biologists (COB) Now Available on Highwire Press (Barbara Schader, UCLA
As of June 15th, the three Company of Biologists (COB) titles are now available on Highwire Press. The new URLs for the 3 titles published by Company of Biologists are: DEVELOPMENT [http://dev.biologists.org/ ] JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE [http://jcs.biologists.org/] JOURNAL OF […]
Evolving User Instruction – CDL-Hosted Workshop Coming
The CDL, with the endorsement and assistance of SOPAG, is sponsoring a workshop this September aimed at instruction and reference practitioners responsible for teaching new and new versions of Abstracting and Indexing databases and other digital information discovery resources. Randy […]
New Resources Available
a. The Index to Current Urban Documents (ICUD) (Julia Gelfand, UCI) Coordinated by Julia Gelfand, five campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, Irvine and San Diego) have licensed the Index to Current Urban Documents (ICUD) [http://uclibs.org/PID/7547] as a Tier 2 resource. […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. ERIC (Telnet) via Stanford No Longer Available Stanford is in the process of restructuring its locally loaded databases. As part of this process, Stanford staff decided to discontinue the local load of the ERIC database as of July 1, […]
Library Staff News
a. CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections The CDL is pleased to announce that Lorelei Tanji, Head of Collection Development at UC Irvine, has been appointed to a three-year term on the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) […]
Statistics Summary Report Available
The second annual statistical profile of the CDL is now available from the “About the CDL” publications web site <[http://www.cdlib.org/about/publications/>, entitled The California Digital Library: Key Indicators of Collections and Use (January – December 2000). As explained in the report’s […]
Nature Licensing Update
Some of the major concerns regarding Nature’s institutional model have been addressed, so the CDL has begun licensing negotiations. There are still several outstanding issues that need to be resolved. See the complete update at: (http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/historical/index.html)
Access to Kluwer Full-Text (Julia Gelfand, UCI)
For most Kluwer and Kluwer affiliate content licensed by the CDL, full-text access is available to all UC users. There are, however, still some cases where full text is not yet available. In these cases, users attempting to access full […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. Access to OCLC Databases Changing Soon OCLC is making a significant change in the way they handle their Z39.50 databases. The result of this change is that the FirstSearch databases available from CDL via Z39.50 will ONLY be available […]
Robots or Intelligent Agents and IEEE Xplore System
Licenses negotiated by the CDL often describe and limit certain types of use. For example, some licenses do not allow activity from robots/intelligent agents. (Robots/intelligent agents are programs that automatically traverse the Web’s hypertext structure by retrieving a document and […]