Category: Licensed Resources
New Licensed Resource: MIT Press eBooks in Computer Science and Engineering via IEEE Xplore
By Jean McKenzie, UC Berkeley, Resource Liaison Seven campuses now have access to the MIT Press eBooks Library: The Computing & Engineering Collection (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/books.jsp?refinementGroups=3343_4282906416_MITP&pageNumber=1) via IEEE Xplore. UCB, UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCR, UCSC and UCSD participated in this Tier 2 […]
SciFinder Moves to Unlimited Access
By Teri Vogel, UCSD, SciFinder Resource Liaison The University of California Libraries now have unlimited access for Chemical Abstracts Service’s (CAS) SciFinder. The libraries have had a concurrent use limit of 36 seats for some time, but CAS has been […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — May 2013
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services Last month Springer topped our list for most titles distributed, 2731, which included the first titles sent, 41, for the newest Springer subject collection, Energy monographs. These include all the recently licensed 2013 […]
Licensed Resources: Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) and Periodicals Index Online (PIO) Transitions
The transition of Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) and Periodicals Index Online (PIO) from the Chadwyck-Healey to the ProQuest Platform will be complete when access to Chadwyck-Healey’s version of the databases ends on June 30, 2013. Both versions of the databases […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — April 2013
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services Some interesting developments and cancellations have kept us on our toes the last few months. Changes involving the CRC Press NETBASES are without a doubt the most complicated of these. As it stands […]
Licensed Resource: National Palace Museum Transition
National Palace Museum http://uclibs.org/PID/126960 AIRITI, a Chinese e-content provider of Chinese academic e-journals, is no longer distributing the Tier 2 resource NPM (National Palace Museum), an image archive of treasures at the National Palace Museum in Taiwan. The collection includes […]
Migration of FirstSearch Databases to EBSCO Complete as of 2/28/13
The migration of several databases migrating from the FirstSearch platform to EBSCOhost will be complete by February 28, 2013. These databases include the following: Anthropological Index Anthropological Literature Anthropology Plus Chicano Database FRANCIS History of Science, Technology and Medicine Index […]
New Licensed Resource: LandScan 2011 Global Population Database
By Brian Quigley, UC Berkeley Six campuses (Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, and Santa Barbara) have purchased the LandScan 2011 Global Population Database. Produced by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), LandScan provides ambient population (24-hour average) data […]
AGU Migration to Wiley-Blackwell
By Amy Butros, UCSD, AGU Resource Liaison The American Geophysical Union (AGU) entered into a publishing partnership agreement with Wiley-Blackwell in January 2013. As detailed in the press release, Wiley-Blackwell is now responsible for the journal subscriptions, production and distribution, while […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — January 2013
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services December was a short work month but some significant distributions were made. For monographs, the major distributions were to SPIE Conference Proceedings (213 titles), CRC Press (208 titles), Knovel (204 titles), Gale Mexican […]