Category: Licensed Resources
New Licensed Resource – BioOne Complete licensed on behalf of all UC campuses
All UC campuses now have access to BioOne Complete (formerly BioOne.1 and BioOne.2) on the BioOne.org platform; some campuses may have already had access via local subscriptions. SCP distributed the journal title level records on December 21, 2015. BioOne.2 has […]
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Online is transitioning to the ProQuest search platform
“House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Online” will be hosted exclusively on the ProQuest platform starting March 2016. It is currently hosted on the Chadwyck-Healey platform. UC campuses currently subscribe to the 19th Century (1801-1900) Parliamentary Papers database within the House […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – EVGeoCloud
Nine campuses (all except UCSF) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to EVGeoCloud. http://uclibs.org/PID/279125 (B, D, I, LA, M, R, SB, SC, SD; on the EVGeoCloud platform) [Note: The EVGeoCloud catalog record will be made available to […]
Society for Automotive Engineers resources requires updated browser
The SAE Digital Library will be upgrading its system to comply with Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 standards starting on January 31, 2016. Users must update their browser settings to enable TLS 1.2 or download a TLS 1.2-compatible browser in […]
New Licensed Resource – JSTOR Arts & Sciences XIV
Nine UC campuses (all except UCSF) now have access to JSTOR Arts & Sciences XIV Collection. http://uclibs.org/PID/1980 (B, D, I, LA, M, R, SB, SC, SD; on the JSTOR platform) The Arts & Sciences XIV Collection brings together more than […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: November 2015
The holiday season is fast approaching and upcoming December campus closures will be affecting SCP operations. The UCSD campus will be officially closed December 24 through January 3. Additionally, it is probable that several staff will be taking off December […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: October 2015
The first set of records for two new journals packages, Reveal Digital’s Independent Voices and for SAE, went out this past month. You may have seen some press already regarding Independent Voices. This collection consists of alternative press newspapers and […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Chinese Databases (Classic Ancient Books & Local Records)
Eight campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, and Santa Barbara) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the Database of Chinese Classic Ancient Books or Zhongguo jiben guji ku (中国基本古籍庫) and to the […]
ScienceDirect to discontinue support of Internet Explorer 8
Elsevier/ScienceDirect is following Microsoft’s directive to focus support on newer, officially-supported IE browser versions. Microsoft announced in 2014 that, as of January 2016, it would only support the most recent IE browser version with technical support and security updates. We […]
Ebooks or Print Books or Both? Graduate Students Focus Group Study at UCSC
This week, UCSC and CDL have launched a research project to study academic user behaviors around print and digital monographs at various points during the research lifecycle. This project is already announced on UCSC library website: https://library.ucsc.edu/. In the next […]