Year: 2005
PCI and PCI-FT Changes
By Myrtis Cochran (Resource Liaison), UC Berkeley Changes have been made to enhance the interface and functionality of the Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) and Periodicals Contents Index—Full Text (PCI-FT) databases. Each database has a new name. PCI is now called […]
BIOSIS Previews on Ovid Retiring
As of 2006, ISI will be the sole source for UC subscriptions to the BIOSIS Previews database. This database is available at < http://isiknowledge.com/BIOSIS >. The overlap period with Ovid for BIOSIS Previews ends on December 30, 2005. BIOSIS is […]
New Resource Available
a. GLBT Life (EBSCO) By Gary Colmenar (Resource Liaison), UC Santa Barbara The CDL is pleased to announce access to GLBT Life, a comprehensive online index to the literature related to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender issues. The database contains […]
CDLINFO Survey Deadline Today
Want to help shape how the CDL communicates with you? Today is the last day to participate in the CDLINFO survey, available at < http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/2734/cdlinfoSurvey.htm”> We have developed this survey to help us gain a better understanding about how you […]
CDL Guidelines for Digital Objects, Version 2.0: Draft Release
The CDL and Digital Library Services Advisory Group (DLSAG) are pleased to announce the release of the draft CDL Guidelines for Digital Objects, Version 2.0 (CDL GDO), available online in HTML and PDF format at <http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/guidelines/>. We welcome your feedback […]
New Resource Available
a. Factiva By Michael Oppenheim (Resource Liaison), UCLA Factiva, from Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive LLC, is a new Tier 2 acquisition negotiated on behalf of seven participating campuses: UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Merced, UC Riverside, […]
CDLINFO Survey: Your Feedback Is Important
The CDL has created a survey to allow us to better understand how you currently use the CDLINFO newsletter and learn about the types of information you may need and want from the CDL in the future. The survey contains […]
eScholarship Repository Milestones
The eScholarship Repository reached an important milestone last week: the 2,000,000th full-text download from the repository. See < http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/ >. Adoption of the eScholarship Repository is accelerating. It took two years to log the first half-million downloads in the repository, […]
NISC Improves Its Interface
The database provider, NISC, has asked the CDL to move to a new interface as of November 1. UC licenses the following databases from NISC (Your campus may license additional databases as well.): African Studies Black Studies Database Family and […]
Google Scholar Emphasized Links
Now that UC-eLinks has migrated to Version 3 of SFX, the CDL has the necessary technical capability to share UC’s ejournal holdings with Google Scholar. By doing so, Google Scholar will then be aware which journals and papers UC has […]