Author: Jayne Dickson
More details about the Scientific American Archive Online discontinuation
By Jayne Dickson, CDL Information Services Analyst As reported earlier this month, the Scientific American Archive Online (SAAO) will no longer be available after May 31, 2010. See Scientific American Archive (EBSCO) to be Discontinued by Publisher on May 31, […]
BHA Database is now available via the Getty’s web site
By Jayne Dickson, CDL Information Services Analyst UC’s access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) database via the CSA Illumina platform was discontinued yesterday (March 31, 2010) since it had been reported that the Getty Research Institute […]
Cochrane Library Platform Transition
By Jayne Dickson, CDL Information Services Analyst The Cochrane Library has moved from Wiley InterScience to a new platform: http://www.thecochranelibrary.com. Current subscribers include Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco. For more information about the move, see […]
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) to be discontinued 3/31/10
By Jayne Dickson, CDL Information Services Analyst The Getty Research Institute, publishers of the Bibliography of the History of Art, will not provide access to BHA beyond March 31, 2010. BHA will no longer be available from CSA Illumina nor […]
CDL’s System Status web page – ‘One stop shopping’ for system information
By Jayne Dickson, CDL Information Services Analyst At the top right of CDL’s newly redesigned website (http://www.cdlib.org) is a link to CDL’s System Status web page. This System Status page brings together several useful tools in one place to facilitate […]
Emily Stambaugh in Print
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is initiating a new series of invited reports addressing emerging roles for research libraries and Emily Stambaugh, CDL’s Manager of Shared Print, is writing the report on New roles in providing print collections: remote storage and collection consolidation.
Reporting problems with Google Books
Occasionally, book links in the catalog records link incorrectly to another book via the Google Books Search API. The best way to report these mis-links and other problems with the Google Books content is to use the Melvyl Catalog and WCL implementation feedback links to report the problem to CDL.
CDLAlert Archive
Have you ever noticed that a resource was down and wondered if the vendor had sent a downtime message? The easiest way to find out is to check the CDLAlert Archive.