Author: CDL
Luna Insight Updates: New URLs, Self-Updating Software, and Access Rights
Due to a new version of Luna Insight software, the UC image collections must be accessed through new URLs, which have been changed to take advantage of some additional features. If you are using PIDs, they have been updated. The […]
New Resource Available
a. New England Journal of Medicine The CDL has reached an agreement to license the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) electronic journal, available at: http://content.nejm.org/. The electronic journal contains full-text articles from the New England Journal of Medicine, excluding […]
Computer Database and National Newspaper Index: Databases to be Deselected
After much discussion and campus input, two indexing and abstracting databases were chosen to be cut in 2004 because of budget reductions: the Computer Database and the National Newspaper Index. These databases were selected because their content is largely duplicative […]
Co-Branding for Library Resources
Recently, more database and ejournal vendors have allowed their products to be “co-branded” by campus institutions. Knowing that there has been a growing interest in the possibilities for co-branding, and wanting to facilitate campus and systemwide use of this opportunity, […]
Library Staff News
a. Shifra Raffel Joins the Digital Ingest Group On January 12, Shifra Raffel joined the CDL’s Digital Ingest group as a Programmer Analyst II on a two-year staff contract. Mostly recently, Shifra worked for UC Berkeley as a Web Applications […]
Earthquake Engineering Abstracts (EEA) Database Changes Platforms
The Earthquake Engineering Abstracts (EEA) database is now available to the UC community as part of the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) databases in civil, environmental, and mechanical engineering. Charles James, UC Berkeley’s Earthquake Engineering Research Center’s (EERC) Librarian and Information […]
New Resource Available
a. Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker (Digital Library of German Classics) By Jim Spohrer, UC Berkeley The Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker (Digital Library of German Classics) contains all of the works in the Deutscher Klassiker Verlag printed editions except works by […]
Scholarly Communication Planning: Faculty Seminars Report
(Courtesy Announcement for Systemwide Library Planning) The Office of Systemwide Library Planning sponsored two regional seminars in late fall 2003 to discuss scholarly communication issues and strategies for change. More than 60 participants hailing from all UC campuses and a […]
Take Our Survey! Give us Feedback – Deadline Extended
In September 2003, the CDL launched two new web sites: the CDL “brochure” site, intended to provide general information about the CDL to a broad public audience, and “Inside CDL,” intended to provide UC library staff and other CDL partners […]
Library Staff News
a. Cecily Johns Retires After may years at the University of California, and nearly four years of contributions to Systemwide Library Planning and CDL projects, Cecily Johns officially retired on December 31, 2003. In July 2000, Cecily accepted a part-time […]