Category: Licensed Resources
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: March 2015
I’m very pleased to share the news that Becky Culbertson has been named a recipient of the annual Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award. The ALA press release highlights many of her contributions to the field, the benefits of which are well […]
UC Monthly E-Resource Usage Reports Are Now Available Via MPSInsight for Libraries
Monthly COUNTER usage reports for UC Libraries Systemwide licensed e-resources from 2010 to the present are now available via a link to MPSInsight for Libraries (formerly ScholarlyStats). ScholarlyStats was the brand name and platform under which MPS’s library statistics reporting […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Red Book Online
Six campuses (Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, and San Francisco) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to Red Book Online. http://uclibs.org/PID/268676 (D, I, LA, R, SD, SF; on the Silverchair platform) Red Book® Online includes […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: February 2015
Our major monograph distributions for last month included titles for Early English Books (4,334 tiles), Springer (2,702 titles), SuperStar (520 titles), IEEE (130 titles), YBP/Ebrary DDA (121 titles), CRC Press (78 titles), Apabi (66 titles), and Wiley (60 titles). For […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Staff Accounts are now available!
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Staff User Accounts are here! With a staff user account, you can view MARC records, view the OCLC# on the brief record display, and search by library holding symbol. Further staff account features are anticipated. […]
New Elsevier Ebook Collections for 2013 and 2015
All UC campuses will have access to 2013 and 2015 ebook collections from Elsevier. The two CDL purchases made in December complement a purchase of the 2014 frontlist by CDL last year. Imprints include Academic Press, Mosby Saunders Churchill Livingston, […]
Wiley Journals integrate “ReadCube” into platform
It seems that ReadCube is everywhere lately. It’s a desktop, web browser and mobile app-based program for managing, annotating, and accessing academic research articles. It provides access to research materials through partnerships with several publishing companies including the Nature Publishing […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: January 2015
Our major monograph distributions for last month included titles for Springer (1,644 titles), Knovel (374 titles), IEEE (158 titles), YBP/Ebrary DDA (144 titles), Wiley (141 titles), and Airiti (61 titles). For serials, our only major distributions were for Open Access […]
Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Digital Library Collection Six is Available
Morgan & Claypool (M&C) Publishers has two fulltext series of short books acquired as a Tier 2 purchase. The Synthesis Series (http://www.morganclaypool.com/page/browseLbS.jsp) currently has completed its sixth collection and includes a total of 46 series in Collections 1-6 that span […]
Challenges to Licensing – MD Consult Update
The vast majority of publishers and vendors who enter into negotiations with CDL demonstrate an open-minded, flexible approach and are more than willing to reach common ground in pricing and licensing terms. It is rare that after a long period […]