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Melvyl® Union Catalog and Database Transitions

Standard PubMed is currently available for searching from the National Library of Medicine [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/]. MEDLINE/PubMed Background UC health sciences librarians were aware that many UC faculty and graduate students were using the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) PubMed system.  PubMed […]

Melvyl® Union Catalog Vendor Chosen

The California Digital Library is pleased to announce that a contract has been signed with Ex Libris [http://www.exlibris-usa.com/] for its ALEPH 500 system to serve as the underlying technology for the University of California’s Melvyl® Union Catalog.  Ex Libris has […]

Library Staff News

On April 13, Joyce Rawlins is leaving her position at the CDL as Executive Secretary to the University Librarian.  She has accepted a position as Administrative Assistant to the Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education at UC Berkeley. Joyce has been […]

CDL Users Council Meeting

18 members of the CDL Users Council attended the group’s annual meeting in Oakland on March 12.  This meeting offered a series of informational updates on CDL’s governance structure and organization, upcoming changes in the Melvyl Catalog and the Abstracting […]

New Resource Available

a. ERIC E*Subscribe On the recommendation of the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) and the UC Education and Psychology bibliographers, the CDL has licensed the current years of ERIC E*Subscribe (1996-present) [http://www.edrs.com/Esubscribe] for all campuses.  The contract is […]

Melvyl and Database Transitions

a. Melvyl Public Information Page Available A public web page containing general information is now available (updated URL 2011) [http://melvyl.cdlib.org/]; feel free to publicize this as the most up-to-date source of information about the Melvyl Union Catalog Transition.  It will […]

MEDLINE/HealthSTAR Regeneration 2001

NLM has begun sending new MEDLINE records to CDL and we are now loading these into our MEDLINE/HealthSTAR database.  Users with Updates will begin to see new records this week.  Please remember that CDL’s MEDLINE coverage is NOT the same […]

New Resources Available

a. Mary Ann Liebert Journals The CDL has licensed the Mary Ann Liebert journals [http://www.liebertonline.com/], a smaller publisher whose primary focus is in the areas of biomedical research and clinical medicine.  Online access is provided via the CatchWord platform.  Currently […]

CDL-Hosted Databases Transition Update

Public Web Site A public web site that provides information on the transition of the CDL-hosted databases to new vendor web interfaces is now available.  It includes a timeline and detailed information in the form of frequently asked questions  [http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlhosteddatabases.html].  […]

New Resources Available

a. Periodicals Contents Index Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) is a multi-disciplinary database, purchased through CDL and campus co-investments in 1999.  It contains separate citations to over ten million journal articles and covers many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.  […]