Author: CDL
Kluwer Online Journals: Feature Changes and Enhancements
By Julia Gelfand (UC Irvine), Resource Liaison Kluwer has just finished rolling out feature changes and enhancements to the Kluwer Online Journals platform at http://journals.kluweronline.com/. Some additional features added to the journals site include: Outbound reference linking via CrossRef for […]
New Resource Available
a. CrossFire By Chuck Huber (UC Santa Barbara), Resource Liaison Starting in February, the UC has had systemwide access to CrossFire, a chemistry database system from MDL, Inc., a division of Reed-Elsevier. Previously, several UC campuses had subscribed to part […]
Counting California Wins the 2004 Documents to the People Award
The American Library Association (ALA) Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) awarded Counting California the 2004 Documents to the People Award. Counting California can be accessed at: http://countingcalifornia.cdlib.org The award recognizes individuals and institutions who have encouraged the use of government […]
New Resource Liaisons Appointed
The CDL is pleased to announce the appointment of a new group of Resource Liaisons: Crossfire (Tier 2): Chuck Huber, UC Santa Barbara CRCnetBase: Deanna Johnson, UC Davis Digital Library of German Classics (Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker): Jim Spohrer, UC […]
Dekker Encyclopedias: Available for Trial February 17-March 31, 2004
By Julia Gelfand (UC Irvine), Resource Liaison From February 17 through March 31, the UC libraries will trial the 12 encyclopedias currently published by Marcel Dekker for a potential Tier 2 acquisition on a title-by-title basis: Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food […]
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 […]