Category: Licensed Resources
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 […]
Dacheng Old Journal Full-text Database
By Susan Xue, UC Berkeley, Resource Liaison for Dacheng Journals All UC campuses; on the Dacheng platform http://uclibs.org/PID/241770 This collection of old journals contains more than 7,000 journal titles and 130,000 issues published in China from the late Qing Dynasty to 1949. […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — December 2012
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services The UCSD campus will be closed December 24-January 1. Additionally, individual staff may be taking additional time off January 2-4. Be advised therefore, that any questions or issues directed to SCP or CDL […]
Springer Journals and Ebook Migrating to New Springer Platform 11/26/12
Springer Journal and Ebook content will be migrating to a new Springer platform effective Monday, November 26. Springer will redirect all users to the new SpringerLink site at this time. The new SpringerLink is faster, easier to use and optimized […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — November 2012
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services The major serial record additions for the past month were to Academic Search Complete (177 titles), Open Access (147 titles), JSTOR (94 titles), and DragonSource (26 titles). For monographs, the major distributions were […]
IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) eBooks
By Julia Gelfand, UC Irvine, Resource Liaison for IET eBooks Several campuses have selected to participate in a Tier 2 for an eBook collection from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). This collection, divided by imprint dates, has a […]