SCP Monthly Update — September 2019

September 18, 2019 Author: Shi DengCategories:

SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of August 2019. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. They are color coded as: Net Increase (Green) — Net Decrease (Red) — New Package (Purple) — Removed Package (Orange).

For serials, it has been another busy month cataloging end-of-year new acquisitions finishing the T&F journal archive and most titles of the Gale Sabin journals, cataloging more titles in the Cambridge journal archive, as well as planning and preparing for serials Phase II–converting print records to online records. The major distributions were Cambridge online journals (84 titles), Gale. Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 online journals (1,205 titles), Taylor & Francis online journals (14 titles), and China online journals (37 titles in 4 subject areas). We also added a new set of JapanKnowledge online journals (3 titles).

Note on SCP serials cataloging transition Phase II: On August 19, SCP distributed 860+ print serial records set for deletion with the usual 599: DEL|c1908xx. These are records that should already have a distributed online counterpart SCP record. They are from all serials packages. The major net decrease for packages are highlighted here: EBSCO journals (372 titles: Academic search complete 180 titles, Business source complete 51 titles, CINAHL plus 22 titles, Education source 48 titles, Library literature & information science 20 titles, and MasterFILE premier 42 titles), Gale. Literature Resource Center online journals (18 titles), JSTOR journals (57 titles), Materials science & engineering database online journals (28 titles), Nexis Uni online journals (69 titles), Open access resource selected by the UC Libraries (593 titles: DOAJ 252 titles, HighWire Press 20 titles, PubMed Central 38 titles, Scielo 22 titles, and U.S. online journals 22 titles), ProQuest journals (25 titles), and Wiley-Blackwell online journals (32 titles). Due to recent migration of ProQuest EEBO collection of 130,000+ from its legacy Chadwyck-Healey interface to the newly-enhanced ProQuest Platform (see CDLINFO article) it will take time for SCP to switch URLs for individual titles. The serials Phase II transition by package will delay until after the EEBO URL switchover is complete.

For monographs, the major record distributions were: ACM Digital Library online conference proceedings (74 titles), Cambridge online monographs (123 titles), CRCnetBASE online monographs (144 titles), Elsevier monographs (88 titles in 15 subjects), IEEE Xplore online conference proceedings (193 titles), JapanKnowledge online monographs (68 titles), JSTOR monographs (181 titles), Sage Research Methods monographs (194 titles: Online datasets 76 titles, Books & reference collection online monographs 29 titles, Books & reference collection online videos 15 titles, and Cases 74 titles), SpringerLink monographs (1,395 titles in 26 subjects, including: Biomedical and life sciences 58 titles, Business and economics (German) 130 titles, Business and management 46 titles, Computer science and engineering (German) 126 titles, Computer science 104 titles, Economics and finance 40 titles, J.B. Metzler Humanities (German) 112 titles, Law and criminology 100 titles, Life science and basic disciplines monographs (German) 54 titles, Medicine 69 titles, Medicine (German) 52 titles, Political science and international studies 134 titles, Social science and law (German) 90 titles, and Social sciences 48 titles) and Superstar. Chinamaxx online monographs 22 titles.

DDA Programs: DDA programs with numbers changed as of today, September 4, 2019: Airiti DDA (3,450 discovery records + 786 purchased titles), CNPeReading CDL DDA online monographs (5,457 discovery records + 132 purchased titles), JSTOR CDL DDA pilot (7,285 discovery records + 1,482 purchased titles). DDA Programs with no change: CRC Press ENGnetBASE online monographs (406 purchased titles (2013 package (105 titles), 2014 package (64 titles), 2015 package (133 titles), and 2016 package (104 titles)), EBSCO Japanese DDA (466 purchased titles), Maruzen eBook Library online monographs (311 purchased titles) and YBP/Ebrary online monographs via ProQuest (665 purchased titles).

Note on SCP web pages: Since last September, the CDL website has been in a soft freeze period as the CDL UX Design Service and Web Production Team was working on migrating contents from current CDL website to the new WordPress content system. Now, the new CDL website is in production. All updates are now can be added and updated on the new content system behind the scene without further delay.

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