Year: 2006
Retrospective Bibliographic Searching in the Life Sciences
By Beth Weil (UC Berkeley), Web of Science Resource Liaison UC has just obtained access to the Biosis backfile (Biosis Archive) which comprehensively covers the biological sciences literature from 1926-1968. The current Biosis file has covered the data from 1969-present. […]
New Citation Report provides H Index
The latest quarterly software update for Web of Science introduced a new feature called the Citation Report. It captures citation activity and identifies citation trends. The Citation Report enables you to instantly create formatted reports for any General Search (author, […]
XTF Update
CDL announces the latest XTF release: version 1.9. The main feature of the new XTF release is greatly improved documentation. Almost all features are now fully documented, allowing users to take better advantage of the system. Users of XTF version […]
UC Electronic Resources Management System (ERMS) Project Update
The following is a summary of recent ERMS project activities, and plans for the coming months. Ex Libris product manager Ted Koppel visited the CDL in November. As a result of this meeting, CDL is in the process of upgrading […]
Mass Digitization: Open Content Alliance and the UC Libraries
On December 6, 2006, Microsoft released the beta Live Search Books (http://books.live.com), providing a new portal to access UC libraries books scanned by the Internet Archive (IA) for the Open Content Alliance. An initial review of Microsoft’s service was provided […]
Local History Digital Resources Featured in Calisphere and the Online Archive of California (OAC)
More than 3,600 digitized primary resources from 19 California cultural heritage institutions are now featured in the CDL’s Calisphere (http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/) and Online Archive of California (http://www.oac.cdlib.org/) websites. The new online collections showcase local history materials, including photographs, ephemera, posters, maps, […]
Make Searching More Convenient
The CDL has created a UC version of LibX, a Firefox open source extension that allows you to search the Melvyl Catalog, all the UC campus catalogs, and Google Scholar, and use embedded links. Detailed information on its functions and […]
Melvyl Recommender Project Findings
The Melvyl Recommender Project http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/melvyl_recommender/, which explored next-generation services for library catalogs, has reached its conclusion. The project was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Popular commercial services such as Google, eBay, Amazon, and Netflix have evolved quickly over […]
Library Staff News
a. Welcome Library Data Analyst Chan Li Chan Li has accepted the position of Library Data Analyst in the CDL Collections Licensed Content Group beginning Monday, October 9. Ms. Li has a Masters Degree in Library and Information Studies from […]
National Science Foundation Grant Final Report
The California Digital Library was awarded a National Science Foundation grant in 2003 to build on and enhance the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). The work has been completed Update: (The metasearch infrastructure project is no longer active. For Metasearch […]