Category: Licensed Resources
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: June 2014
Once again the only major distributions for serials were for Open Access (229 titles). For monographs, our major distributions included titles for NBER (883), SuperStar (411 titles), Open Access (224 titles), Wiley (151 titles), World Bank (137 titles), Knovel (134 […]
Working with Resource Vendors on Web Accessibility
UC Berkeley Web Accessibility Evangelist and chair of UC’s Electronic Accessibility Leadership Team (EALT), Lucy Greco serves on a working group to improve the accessibility of Elsevier’s products. Elsevier ScienceDirect is consistently one of UC’s most heavily used (and costliest) […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: May 2014
Our past month’s distributions for monographs included titles for Open Access (1195 titles), SuperStar (640 titles), Springer (345 titles), CRC Press (288 titles), Apabi (113 titles), IEEE (76 titles), Wiley (65 titles), and Elsevier (51 titles). The majority of the […]
New Licensed Resource: TAIR
TAIR http://uclibs.org/PID/262407 Nine UC Campuses (all except UCSF) entered a Tier 2 agreement to become among the first institutional subscribers to The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR). Arabidopsis thaliana is a flowering plant that is widely used as model organism for […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: April 2014
I’m pleased to announce that SCP is now cataloging two high profile open access monographic collections, Knowledge Unlatched and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). The UC’s are charter members of Knowledge Unlatched, http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/, a collaborative initiative enabling free […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: March 2014
All the DDA pilots seem to be going strong. SCP is currently distributing records for four DDA pilots with records distributed for 1243 titles from YBP/Ebrary, 46 titles from CRC Press ENGnetBASE, 713 titles from Airiti, and 1540 titles from […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: February 2014
We had only three major e-book package distributions in January, for Springer (1,121 titles), SuperStar (211 titles), and IEEE (53 titles). There was an overall decrease (117 titles) in the number of CRC Press titles available since we removed 224 […]
Licensed Resources: New Content Added to Web of Knowledge Subscription
The following new content has been added to UC’s World of Knowledge subscription for all campuses, on the Thomson Reuters platform (http://uclibs.org/PID/119925): Book Citation Index (2005-present) Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1990-present) Current Contents Connect (1998-present) Current Chemical Reactions (1985-present) Data […]
New Licensed Resource: PsychiatryOnline Premium
Seven campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego and San Francisco) began participation in a Tier 2 agreement for PsychiatryOnline Premium (http://uclibs.org/PID/163456); on the American Psychiatric Publishing platform. This collection features the DSM Library (http://uclibs.org/PID/261169) which includes the […]
CDL purchases Elsevier eBooks, 2014
On behalf of all UC campuses, CDL made a one-time purchase of the frontlist of Elsevier’s ebook collection with over 850 titles to be published in 2014. This collection spans 24 subject collections published under well-known imprints within science, technology, […]