Author: CDL
Counting California, eScholarship and PubMed to be featured in July 2001 Release
Counting California, eScholarship and PubMed will include major enhancements in the July 18 release of the CDL web site. Counting California, a new research tool that provides users with “one-stop-shopping” for government data and statistics about California, will officially launch […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. Advisory Group Roles for Catalog and A&I Transitions Citing the importance and complexity of major transitions for both the Melvyl Catalog and the CDL-Hosted A&I databases, the CDL recently asked the Systemwide Operations and Planning Advisory Group (SOPAG) to […]
Library Staff News
a. John Kunze Joins the CDL John Kunze has joined the CDL as a development programmer for 40% time from May 2001 to May 2002. John has worked at Berkeley, UCSF, and the National Library of Medicine, in which roles […]
New Publications Page
A Publications page has been added to our “About the CDL” section [http://www.cdlib.org/about/publications/]. This page contains publications guiding or explaining activities of the California Digital Library and written by its working groups and staff. It contains links to reports, such […]
SciFinder Scholar Adds More New Content (Marion Peters, UCLA
SciFinder Scholar 2000 now provides access to literature and patents from 1947 to the present. On April 22, 2001, bibliographic information and abstracts were added for over 2.2 million references published in Chemical Abstracts from 1947 to 1966. Users May: […]
Melvyl® Catalog and Database Transitions
a. Melvyl® Catalog Name On April 27, the University Librarians and SOPAG discussed the first of many policy issues related to the Melvyl®Union Catalog. As a result, they endorsed a proposal that now takes effect, that the full title of […]
Library Staff News
a. California Cultures Project Manager Genie Guerard of the UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library has agreed to serve as overall Project Manager for the Online Archive of California (OAC) virtual archives project California Cultures. California Cultures will draw on […]
eBook Task Force Final Report Complete
CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) eBook Task Force’s final report on the emerging eBook market and its implications has been completed. The Task Force members included Lucia Snowhill (JSC, Chair), Karen Coyle (CDL), Mary Engle (CDL), Anna […]
IEEE Journal-level Links (Camille Wanat, UCB)
If you’ve searched for IEEE journals or magazines lately in either the CDL Directory or any of the CDL-hosted databases, you will have noticed a recent and positive change–direct journal-level links for these titles have been added. In the CDL […]
New Resource Available
a. The Ethnic NewsWatch: A History The Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, licensed in fall 2000 (see CDLINFO Vol.3, No.12: http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo090600.html#1) is now offering its first release of content, covering the years 1975-1989. The Ethnic NewsWatch: A History will eventually extend […]