Author: CDL
Artbibliographies Modern Provider Became CSA on January 1
Effective January 1, 2001, the Tier 2 resource, Artbibliographies Modern, changed providers from ABC-CLIO to CSA. Artbibliographies Modern is available to five campuses: Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Barbara.
Access to Blackwell’s Table of Contents Ended on December 31, 2000
The only access to Blackwell’s Table of Contents has been via the RLG native mode interface (Eureka) in both the web and telnet versions of the CDL-hosted databases. RLG recently informed the CDL that it discontinued providing access to the […]
New Resource Available
a. Alexander Street Press Correction: North American Women’s Letters and Diaries and The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries will not be released until this spring. There will be a future CDLINFO item announcing their availability. As recommended by the […]
Melvyl and Database Transitions
The CDL has created, and the University Librarians and SOPAG have endorsed, two temporary positions considered crucial to successful transitions for the Melvyl Catalog and A&I databases [see CDLINFO issues Vol. 3, No 17; available at: <http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo112900.html> and Vol. 3 […]
Request News: Evaluation of Consortial Borrowing System proposals
The deadline for responses to the RFP for a Consortial Borrowing System (CBS) was mid-November. As last reported in CDLINFO on November 8th, the CBS is an expansion of Request that would create a single workflow for requests, provide temporary […]
January 19th Release – Previews and Notes
The January “release” of the CDL, to debut January 19th, focuses on new content associated with the Online Archive of California’s Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA), eScholarship eprint repositories and publications, and a prototype version of the California statistics […]
EBSCO Agreement
CDL has signed an agreement with EBSCO to negotiate on CDL’s behalf for systemwide licenses with a selected number of publishers for access to their electronic journals. The agreement was signed following the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) […]
New Resource Available
a. Royal Society of Chemistry In another example of successful co-investment by UC campuses and the CDL, all Royal Society of Chemistry Journals are now available to all campuses. Although subscribed titles were previously available to each campuses, systemwide access […]
Evolution of CDL-Hosted Abstracting and Indexing Databases
This article briefly reports on a strategy to examine alternatives for the provision of CDL-hosted abstracting and indexing (A&I) databases. The strategy has been endorsed by the University Librarians and the Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee (SLASIAC). The […]
CDL Staff News: New Staff Members
Please join us in welcoming these three new CDL staff members located at CDL offices in Oakland. Donna Kaiser and David Loy have arrived to fill vacancies in Digital Library Services and CDL Technologies respectively. Brian Tingle will join the […]