Category: Licensed Resources
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — October 2012
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services SCP’s latest annual report (http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/scp/docs/scpannualreport20112012.pdf) is posted on the SCP website. The report contains significant details on our cataloging activities for the 2011/2012 fiscal year — the most significant of these arguably being […]
New Licensed Resource – JSTOR Arts & Sciences XI
UC campuses, except UCSF, now have access to JSTOR XI as part of a CDL consortial license; on the JSTOR platform. JSTOR Arts & Sciences XI will contain at least 125 titles by the end of 2014, with page-image display, searchable […]
New Licensed Resource – ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library (SEDL)
By Julia Gelfand, Resource Liaison and Applied Sciences & Engineering Librarian, UCI Libraries Seven campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Santa Barbara, San Diego) are now participating in a Tier 2 negotiation for the ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital […]
Upcoming transition of former RLG resources from OCLC to EBSCOhost
By Holly Eggleston, Electronic Resource Analyst /Resource Liaison Coordinator Following is an update on the status of the migration of many former RLG resources from the OCLC FirstSearch platform to the EBSCOhost platform scheduled for late 2012. As the databases […]
ProQuest Congressional Migration Completed September 21, 2012
ProQuest discontinued its legacy platform and switched over to the new platform exclusively on Friday, 9/21, at which point users were automatically redirected from the old platform URLs to the new platform. Systemwide resources affected included: ProQuest Congressional LexisNexis Congressional […]
Licensed Resource Cancellation: Multidata Online
The consortial subscription to Multidata Online, an archive of Arabic periodicals, was cancelled by a UC systemwide decision.
Selected AccessEngineering E-books on CDL-Hosted Licensed Content Platform
By Holly Eggleston, Electronic Resource Analyst /Resource Liaison Coordinator Thanks to a new hosting service released by CDL in June 2012, an important set of engineering e-books from publisher McGraw-Hill, formerly available to selected UC campuses at the McGraw-Hill AccessEngineering(TM) […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — September 2012
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services Serial distributions highlights for August were Open Access (58 titles) and EBSCO Academic Search Complete (26 titles). Monograph record distributions were much more substantial and included Springer (892 titles), ACM Digital Library (639 […]
Oxford Reference Online: Updated Interface & Functionality
By Holly Eggleston, Electronic Resource Analyst /Resource Liaison Coordinator Oxford Reference Online (ORO) has updated its platform interface and functionality beginning immediately. The new platform is now available at the current URL: www.oxfordreference.com. A link to the old interface is […]
ECS Journals Transition to New Platform
The Electrochemical Society (ECS) Journals are now available on the HighWire Press platform. They have transitioned from the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Scitation platform, which is discontinuing its hosting services for ECS and selected other society publishers.