New Licensed Resources: Blackwell Compass; AGU’s Digital Library

By Ellen Meltzer, CDL Information Services Manager

UC campuses now have access to these electronic resources as part of CDL consortial licenses.  (Some campuses have already had access to these titles, or a portion of them, through previous local campus subscriptions):

Blackwell Compass (All campuses; on the Wiley/InterScience platform)
History Compass:  v.1 (2003)-
http://openurl.cdlib.org/?sid=SCP:SCP&genre=article&__char_set=utf8&issn=1478-0542
Language and Linguistics Compass:   v.1 (2007)-
http://openurl.cdlib.org/?sid=SCP:SCP&genre=article&__char_set=utf8&issn=1749-818X
Literature Compass:  v.1 (2004)-
http://openurl.cdlib.org/?sid=SCP:SCP&genre=article&__char_set=utf8&issn=1741-4113
Philosophy Compass:   v.1 (2006)-
http://openurl.cdlib.org/?sid=SCP:SCP&genre=article&__char_set=utf8&issn=1747-9991

Each compass journal publishes 100-150 peer reviewed survey articles from across the entire discipline.  Articles are typically produced in 8-10 weeks from receipt of final peer-reviewed version.  Articles are published as soon as they are produced.

AGU’s Digital Library and backfile (All campuses; on the AGU platform)
http://uclibs.org/PID/126496

The library now includes all AGU journals from volume 1, issue 1 through material published in 2002 and almost all books older than 5 years.  Every year, the library will expand to include another full year; e.g., in 2009, content from 2003 will be added to the library.  As of the library’s launch in January 2008, all journals published by AGU are available, except for the International Journal of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy.  Books, lectures/interviews and the newspaper, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, will be added as completed. Journals include: