Year: 2001
New SciFinder® Scholar Client Provides Search Enhancements (Marion Peters, UCLA
SciFinder® Scholar 2000, released Fall 2000 by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), offers UC users several search enhancements. Scholar2000 adds access to 11 million records from OLDMEDLINE and MEDLINE for searching in conjunction with the 16 million Chemical Abstracts CAplus (1967- […]
New Resource Available
a. Society of Automotive Engineers Standards and Publications Database (SAE) (Karen Andrews, UCD) Karen Andrews (UCD) negotiated the license for the Tier 2 resource, Society of Automotive Engineers Standards and Publications Database (SAE) [http://www.elecpubs.sae.org/PLDatabase/Database.dll?f=templates&fn=main-h.htm&2.0]; the web version is now available […]
Melvyl and Database Transitions
a. CDL-Hosted Databases Transition Steering Committee Appointed A Transition Steering Committee has been appointed as an advisory committee to the DL University Librarian as the first step in this critical undertaking of investigating alternatives for the provision of CDL-hosted abstracting […]
January 2001 Release of the CDL
The January 2001 release, marking the beginning of the CDL’s third year of operation, includes new content and enhancements of existing services. The release is possible through the efforts of CDL and campus staff. We are very grateful to our […]
CDL Staff News
a. Beverlee French named Interim University Librarian Beverlee French, CDL Director, Shared Content, has been named Interim University Librarian for the CDL and Systemwide Library Planning effective February 1, 2001. The recruitment for a permanent UL will begin immediately. The […]
OAC Best Practices Guidelines for Encoding New Finding Aids
The CDL OAC Working Group (OACWG) subcommittee on Metadata Standards has recently developed and released two important documents: the OAC Best Practices Guidelines for Encoding New Finding Aids Draft 11/28/00 (BPG) and the Minimal Level OAC MARC Record for CDL […]
Artbibliographies Modern Provider Became CSA on January 1
Effective January 1, 2001, the Tier 2 resource, Artbibliographies Modern, changed providers from ABC-CLIO to CSA. Artbibliographies Modern is available to five campuses: Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Barbara.
Access to Blackwell’s Table of Contents Ended on December 31, 2000
The only access to Blackwell’s Table of Contents has been via the RLG native mode interface (Eureka) in both the web and telnet versions of the CDL-hosted databases. RLG recently informed the CDL that it discontinued providing access to the […]
New Resource Available
a. Alexander Street Press Correction: North American Women’s Letters and Diaries and The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries will not be released until this spring. There will be a future CDLINFO item announcing their availability. As recommended by the […]
Melvyl and Database Transitions
The CDL has created, and the University Librarians and SOPAG have endorsed, two temporary positions considered crucial to successful transitions for the Melvyl Catalog and A&I databases [see CDLINFO issues Vol. 3, No 17; available at: <http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo112900.html> and Vol. 3 […]