Author: CDL
CDL’s eScholarship Program and Berkeley Electronic Press Partnership
On October 4, the CDL and Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) announced a partnership to advance innovations in scholarly communication. Through the partnership, the CDL will make a suite of electronic publishing tools from bepress available to University of California researchers […]
Instruction Workshops Rescheduled
The CDL-sponsored instruction workshop, originally scheduled for this September, and aimed at instruction and reference practitioners responsible for teaching new versions of Abstracting and Indexing databases and other digital information discovery resources, has been rescheduled. Because of the enthusiastic response […]
Usability Testing Workshops Scheduled for November
The CDL, with the endorsement and assistance of SOPAG, is sponsoring a workshop this November designed to increase UC library systemwide expertise in usability issues and methods. The workshop is aimed at library staff who are involved with online system […]
ContentsFirst and ArticleFirst Changes as of October 14, 2001
The OCLC ArticleFirst database will be expanded to include tables of contents from the OCLC ContentsFirst database as well as citations from the OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online database. These enhancements are scheduled for this Sunday, October 14, 2001. We […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. WorldCat Retires from CDL-hosted Versions December 13, 2001 The CDL-hosted versions of WorldCat-telnet and web will retire December 13, 2001. The CDL repeatedly asked OCLC to extend our versions through the end of UC Berkeley’s finals period, the last […]
Library Staff News
a. Suzanne Samuel Joins the CDL Suzanne Samuel joined the CDL staff on September 24th as eScholarship Projects Coordinator. Suzanne comes to the new position with publishing, editing, marketing, and project management experience. She is very excited to be joining […]
New Resource Liaisons Appointed
Below is a list of recent Resource Liaison appointees. Resource Liaisons are responsible for researching, reviewing, and monitoring their assigned resource(s) in order to maintain quality service to users. More information about the Resource Liaison program is available at: http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/liaisons/ […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. CDL-Hosted MEDLINE/HealthSTAR Updates to Retire As part of the CDL-hosted MEDLINE/HealthSTAR retirement this 12/21/01, MEDLINE Updates will cease later this fall when the last file is loaded from NLM. Messages will be sent to MEDLINE Update subscribers on Friday, […]
Academic Universe Update (Linda Kennedy, UCD)
New URL All of the Universe products are now “branded” with the LexisNexis name, as in LexisNexis Academic Universe. This change affects cataloging for Universe databases and also their URLs. The URL for LexisNexis Academic Universe will be dropping the […]
ABC-CLIO Adds Value to America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts (Ellen Broidy, UCLA)
On September 4, 2001, ABC-CLIO migrated users of America: History and Life (AHL) and Historical Abstracts (HA) to a version 3 of the site. The new version includes a number of changes and enhancements. The most significant change and the […]