Author: CDL
Ellen Meltzer Appointed CDL Staff Liaison to the Users Council
Ellen Meltzer has assumed the role of CDL staff liaison to the Users Council, replacing John Kupersmith (see Library Staff News below for information about John’s departure from the CDL). Ellen is currently on a two-year assignment as CDL’s Senior […]
Online Surveying Software Renewed
The CDL has renewed the license for the Websurveyor online survey service. CDL took advantage of a special offer to continue the license. This service provides the tools to create and publish online surveys without writing HTML code or hosting […]
Periodical Contents Index (PCI) Full Text No Longer Available
Before the license amendment was signed for PCI additional segments and PCI Full Text, the vendor changed the terms of the agreement. Due to this change, the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) recommended that CDL cancel the purchase […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. Change in Transition Steering Committee Roster Now that its initial recommendations have passed to the negotiation stage, the Abstracting and Indexing Database Transition Steering Committee will focus on implementation issues. At the same time, we welcome Margaret Phillips, Electronic […]
New Resources Available
a. Springer LINK Books/Book Series The recently signed Springer LINK journals contract was expanded to include the LINK Books/Book Series. The full list of Springer LINK Books/Book Series is available at http://link.springer-ny.com/ol/bookser.htm. To access the full content, click on the […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. Database Vendors Chosen The Transition Steering Committee has made the following recommendations regarding new vendors. These are in addition to the database transitions already in process, which include PubMed (access with UC links to holdings, content and Request as […]
July 2001 Release of Content and Services
a. Counting California Release Counting California [http://countingcalifornia.cdlib.org] provides UC users and the public with “one-stop-shopping” for government data and statistics about California. In this first release of the service, researchers and the public can discover and interact with current Census […]
Company of Biologists (COB) Now Available on Highwire Press (Barbara Schader, UCLA
As of June 15th, the three Company of Biologists (COB) titles are now available on Highwire Press. The new URLs for the 3 titles published by Company of Biologists are: DEVELOPMENT [http://dev.biologists.org/ ] JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE [http://jcs.biologists.org/] JOURNAL OF […]
Evolving User Instruction – CDL-Hosted Workshop Coming
The CDL, with the endorsement and assistance of SOPAG, is sponsoring a workshop this September aimed at instruction and reference practitioners responsible for teaching new and new versions of Abstracting and Indexing databases and other digital information discovery resources. Randy […]
New Resources Available
a. The Index to Current Urban Documents (ICUD) (Julia Gelfand, UCI) Coordinated by Julia Gelfand, five campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, Irvine and San Diego) have licensed the Index to Current Urban Documents (ICUD) [http://uclibs.org/PID/7547] as a Tier 2 resource. […]