Category: Licensed Resources
Licensed Resource Transition: AP Images
AP Images Collection (Tier 1; AP Images continues to be hosted by the Associated Press and although distributed and licensed by EBSCO, is not hosted on the EBSCO platform.) http://uclibs.org/PID/6955 The Associated Press recently performed a visual update of the […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — October 2013
Last month there were only a couple of significant serial distributions, for Open Access serials (121 titles) and SuperStar (77 titles). The major monograph distributions were for the Alexander Street Press Classical music library (2385 titles), SuperStar (289 titles), Wiley […]
Licensed Resource Transition: Merck Index Online
By Teri Vogel (UCSD), Merck Index Researouce Liaison Merck Index Online (Tier 1; on the RSC Platform) The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) recently acquired the rights to The Merck Index, one of the standard reference books for information on […]
Licensed Resource Transition: World Bank eLibrary
World Bank eLibrary (Tier 2: UCB, UCI, UCLA, UCM, UCR, UCSD; on the World Bank eLibrary platform) has transitioned to a new platform. http://uclibs.org/PID/129801 The World Bank eLibrary contains the full collection of all World Bank publications and research including: […]
Licensed Resource Platform Change: AIP Scitation
AIP Scitation (All campuses; on the Scitation Platform) A new platform is in place for AIP Scitation, enhancing the online research experience for AIP Publishing and AIP Member Society journals. Developed in conjunction with a leading technology partner, the new […]
New UC IT Accessibility Policy in Place
By Ellen Meltzer, Representing the UC Libraries on the UC Electronic Accessibility Leadership Team (EALT) You may have learned at your campuses that, as one of his last official acts, UC President Mark Yudof adopted a University of California Policy […]
Licensed Resources: RAND California Platform Change
RAND California (All campuses; on the RAND platform) http://uclibs.org/PID/8262 RAND California has had a platform change, including a new URL. RAND California is a collection of social science data in fourteen broad areas: Population & Demographics Health & Health Care […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — September 2013
It appears that CDL will be moving forward with a Demand Driven Acquisitions (DDA) pilot with YBP/Ebrary. Therefore, SCP expects to start distributing OCLC records for these DDA titles sometime in the next several weeks. The records will be distributed […]
New Licensed Resources: Harvard University Press eBooks; Karger Journal Archive and eBooks
By Wendy Parfrey, CDL Shared Content Coordinator Harvard University Press eBooks, 2013 Custom Collection Along with other recently acquired digital ebook collections, all UC campuses will now have access to a recently published collection of Harvard University Press titles on […]
New Licensed Resource: Foundations & Trends – nowPublishers
By Julia Gelfand (UCI), Resource Liaison for nowPublishers The Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced and San Diego campuses are now participating in a Tier 2 package from nowPublishers that releases 31 titles in the Foundations & Trends (FnT) product line […]