Author: CDL
Statistics Summary Report Available
The latest statistical profile of the CDL is now available from the “About the CDL” publications web site: <http://www.cdlib.org/about/publications/>, entitled The California Digital Library: Key Indicators of Collections and Use (July 1, 2000 – June 20, 2001). As explained in […]
Licensing Status Information
This is a reminder that you can find up-to-date information about the status of resources being licensed by the CDL. Details about ongoing negotiations and the status of recently licensed resources are available (“CDL Collections Update” available at [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/docs/]. Contact […]
New Resources Available
a. Music Index (Paul Machlis, UCSC) The UC Music Librarians represented by Paul Machlis at UC Santa Cruz have completed a Tier 2 negotiation with Harmonie Park Press for access, beginning 1 January 2002, to the Music Index (for all […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. PAIS Available Via CSA PAIS (Pubic Affairs Information Service) via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) is now available, and will be turned off via SilverPlatter on January 17, 2002. UC-eLinks (CDL’s SFX server) will not be turned on, however, until […]
SilverLinker
With the transitions of the MLA Bibliography and Compendex Plus databases from SilverPlatter to Ovid, the CDL no longer licenses databases on a system-wide basis on the SilverPlatter platform. However, the CDL has renewed the license to SilverLinker for UC […]
New Resources Available
A list of recently added content is always available at < http://www.cdlib.org/news/> d. Current Protocols (Jeff Williams, UCSD) Current Protocols, the widely-used series of laboratory manuals published by Wiley is now available on the Web. All campuses, with the exception […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. Reminder – Access to OCLC Database Changing WorldCat (WCAT), PapersFirst (PAPR) and ProceedingsFirst (PROC) will be available ONLY in OCLC’s web interface (native mode) and no longer available via Z39.50 in the CDL-hosted databases interface. This change is earlier […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. MLA’s Retirement from SilverPlatter It was announced in the October 25, 2001 issue of CDLINFO that Ovid was the new vendor selected for the MLA Bibliography. There will be an overlap period running from January 1 through February 28, […]
Library Staff News
a. Jason Newborn and Margaret Tapper Join the CDL Request Team Jason Newborn and Margaret Tapper will join the CDL Request Team working 25% time for one year. Jason is on loan from UC Davis where he is a member […]
IEEE adds Alert feature (aka Update) (Camille Wanat, Resource Liaison)
There is a new release of IEEE Xplore. The new feature that will be most useful to our users is the capability for email alerts. Other highlights from this release are: articles accepted for future publication extended objects with some […]