Category: Licensed Resources
Compendex has a new look
In August, Compendex (on the Engineering Village platform) launched an updated interface, refreshed to improve usability. According to the vendor’s information, “the new user interface will keep all the current navigation and high quality functionality, using a modern interface experience. […]
SPIE Digital Library moves to new platform
The SPIE Digital Library is migrating from the Silverchair platform to a new SPIE Digital Library platform on Tuesday, August 15, 2017. Features of the new platform include improved search functionality, expanded taxonomy, full text HTML proceedings and eBooks, enhanced […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: August 2017
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of July [xlsx]. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. Here are the highlights of our major record distributions. […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – North-China Daily News
Five campuses (Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara & Santa Cruz) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the North-China Daily News & Herald Newspapers and Hong Lists (1850-1951). http://uclibs.org/PID/296530 (I, LA, SD, SB, SC; on […]
Web of Science Citation Map is gone for now
The Citation Map functionality in Web of Science is no longer available due to technology compatibility issues and reliance on browser support of Java. According to our Clarivate Analytics representative, Clarivate is investigating supporting this functionality but at the present […]
CDL’s new Licensed Resources Website has launched!
On Wednesday, July 12th, CDL launched the new Licensed Resources website (http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/licensed/). CDL’s User Experience Design (UX) team interviewed campus librarians who frequently used the previous site, discussed their findings with the CDL’s Licensed Content Group, and made changes to […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: July 2017
SCP regularly posts monthly distribution statistics report. This monthly report shows titles added and/or removed from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. Here are the highlights of our major record distributions in June 2017. Our major serial record distributions include Open […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Central Daily News
Five campuses (Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San Diego) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the Central Daily News. http://uclibs.org/PID/296476 (B, I, LA, SB, SD; on the Transmission Books platform) Note: limited to 5 […]
New Licensed Resource: Announcing STMnetBASE eBooks from Taylor & Francis, 2017-2019
The UC Libraries have acquired the STMnetBASE frontlist ebook collection from CRC Press/Taylor & Francis for the next three years, 2017 – 2019. All ten campuses and CDL contributed towards this purchase. http://uclibs.org/PID/119780 (All campuses; on the CRCnetBASE platform) The […]
New Licensed Resource – CNP eReading (DDA eBook Project)
Nine campuses (all except UCSF, LBL) recently began participation in a Demand-Driven Acquisitions eBook project for access to the CNP eBooks. http://uclibs.org/PID/289730 (B [LBL not included], D, I, LA, M, R, SB, SC, and SD; on the CNP eReading platform) […]