Author: CDL
Co-Library Staff News – Melvyl and A&I Transition Positions
The CDL is very pleased to announce four staff appointments that bring extraordinary expertise and UC experience to the Melvyl and A&I transition projects over the next two years. Please join us in expressing deep appreciation to these individuals and […]
Proxy Server Access
The passwords page on the CDL site has been updated to include proxy server information: <http://www.cdlib.org/hlp/directory/passwords.html>. All campuses, with the exception of UCSB (which has service available to staff and is expecting more complete service in the Spring), offer proxy […]
CDL’s Response to the Nature Publishing Co.’s Licensing Model
On the What’s New at the CDL page: <http://www.cdlib.org/news/whatsnew.html>, under “Communiques,” there is now a link to a recent letter from CDL to Nature Publishing Co. The letter, composed with the help of the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections, […]
Melvyl and Database Transitions
The CDL-hosted Databases Transition Steering Committee (TSC) was appointed to assist with the investigation of alternatives for the provision of CDL-hosted abstracting and indexing (A&I) databases. In its first meeting on February 23, the committee discussed the criteria and process […]
Co-Library Staff News
a. Karen Cargille Sr. Associate for Shared Content Karen Cargille, Head of Acquisitions at the UCSD Library and already serving CDL’s Shared Content efforts at 20% has been appointed as a Senior Associate for Shared Content, effective January 15, 2001 […]
MyLibrary@CDL Progress Report
After extensive evaluation of the MyLibrary@CDL prototype and a review of CDL’s emerging priorities, active development of this system is being suspended indefinitely. The prototype will remain available for use on an experimental and “as-is” basis. At the same time, […]
Access to PAIS International via Z39.50 ends January 28
Access to the OCLC version of the PAIS International database via Z39.50 for both the web and telnet interfaces for the CDL hosted databases will cease on January 28th. OCLC has recently made extensive changes to the file structure for […]
New SciFinder® Scholar Client Provides Search Enhancements (Marion Peters, UCLA
SciFinder® Scholar 2000, released Fall 2000 by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), offers UC users several search enhancements. Scholar2000 adds access to 11 million records from OLDMEDLINE and MEDLINE for searching in conjunction with the 16 million Chemical Abstracts CAplus (1967- […]
New Resource Available
a. Society of Automotive Engineers Standards and Publications Database (SAE) (Karen Andrews, UCD) Karen Andrews (UCD) negotiated the license for the Tier 2 resource, Society of Automotive Engineers Standards and Publications Database (SAE) [http://www.elecpubs.sae.org/PLDatabase/Database.dll?f=templates&fn=main-h.htm&2.0]; the web version is now available […]
Melvyl and Database Transitions
a. CDL-Hosted Databases Transition Steering Committee Appointed A Transition Steering Committee has been appointed as an advisory committee to the DL University Librarian as the first step in this critical undertaking of investigating alternatives for the provision of CDL-hosted abstracting […]