Category: Licensed Resources
Elsevier Contract Renewed for Next 5 Years
CDL has completed a favorable negotiation with Elsevier to renew the Science Direct journals for 2014-2018. The agreement continues UC’s strong record of excellent long-term cost control for this important package. Science Direct is the largest journals package for co-investment […]
Licensed Resource Transition: Access Medicine
Access Medicine (Tier 2 with UCB, UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCR, UCSD, and UCSF participating; on the McGraw-Hill Platform) http://uclibs.org/PID/36842 Access Medicine has moved to a new web platform with a new URL structure. For information about new features and functionality, […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: December 2013
The major journal package distributions for November were for Open Access (373 tiles), EBSCO (48 titles), JSTOR (35 titles), Project Muse (28 titles), and LexisNexis Academic (27 titles). For monographs, the major distributions were for Naxos Jazz (1569 titles), Knovel […]
Melvyl Central Index Update – Changes for 2014
It’s January 2014, and time for the biannual addition of new databases released by OCLC to Melvyl’s Central Index. As of this January, we are making a minor change to the policy of adding only CDL managed licenses with all […]
Licensed Resource Transitions: Art Source; Education Source; Lion
Art Source (All campuses; on the EBSCOHost platform) http://uclibs.org/PID/33002 Art Source was developed from a merger of several EBSCO and H.W. Wilson art and architecture databases, with additional full-text journals not previously available elsewhere. It covers fine, decorative, and commercial […]
Licensed Resource Change: Science of Synthesis 4.0 Platform Now Available
Thieme has announced the availability of the new Science of Synthesis (SoS) 4.0 platform. Access will be provided to both the new (SoS 4.0) and old (SoS 3.10) platforms through January 31, 2014. http://uclibs.org/PID/96558 The new version of SoS has […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: November 2013
A couple of announcements regarding the Airiti Demand Driven Acquisitions (DDA) package, first, ongoing problems with the ability of Airiti to provide the DDA records for the campuses necessitated SCP take over the process. Instead of each campus separately acquiring […]
New Licensed Resource – JSTOR Ecology & Botany Collection II
UC campuses now have access to the JSTOR Ecology & Botany Collection II as part of the CDL consortial license; on the JSTOR platform. JSTOR Ecology & Botany II The Ecology & Botany Collection II expands coverage of Ecology & […]
K-Theory now available through Portico
The academic community lost access to the mathematics journal K-Theory on the SpringerLink platform when the editorial board resigned in 2007 and founded a new journal, Journal of K-Theory, published by Cambridge University Press. Access to the original K-Theory content […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – SAE Digital Library
In October 2013, five campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles and Riverside) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the SAE International Digital Library of Technical Papers: http://uclibs.org/PID/255206 SAE, formerly known as the Society of Automotive Engineers, […]