Category: Licensed Resources
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 […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — August 2013
Folks interested in our online music resources will be pleased to note that SCP sent out 29,313 records for titles in the Naxos Music Library. And because OCLC is now engaged in a concerted effort to catalog the titles in […]
New Licensed Resource: Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)
As an end-of-year acquisition, CDL purchased the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1941-1996, from Readex on behalf of all campuses, with a start date of July 1, 2013. http://uclibs.org/PID/137517 The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Report has been the United […]
UC Libraries Discontinue Taylor & Francis Systemwide Journals License
Following a rigorous value assessment, the Libraries on the ten UC campuses and the California Digital Library (CDL) have discontinued their systemwide Taylor & Francis journals license in favor of local campus subscriptions effective January 1, 2013. Three important systemwide principles […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — June 2013
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services The NGTS cataloging pilot reached a milestone on Monday, June 10th, when SCP distributed the first set of records cataloged by staff at UC Irvine, about 170 Wiley e-books. UCI will continue sending […]
New Licensed Resource – JSTOR Arts & Sciences XII
UC campuses, except UCSF, now have access to JSTOR A & S XII as part of a CDL consortial license; on the JSTOR platform. JSTOR Arts & Sciences XII expands coverage of the social sciences, and comprises disciplines with high usage […]