Category: Licensed Resources
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 […]
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 […]