Category: Licensed Resources
bX Recommender Trial Ending 6/13/11
The UC Libraries hosted a 2-month trial of Ex Libris’ bX Recommender service, an academic library recommender service that displays in UC-eLinks. The trial will end on Monday, June 13. The UC Heads of Public Services (HOPS) appointed a small […]
UC Access to New Electronic Resources 6/2/11
All UC campuses now have access to these electronic resources as part of CDL and campus one-time purchases (some campuses may have already had access via local subscriptions): Blackwell Companion to Phonology (All campuses; on the Wiley-Blackwell platform) http://uclibs.org/PID/175687 The […]
bX Recommender Trial for UC Libraries 4/11/-6/10/11
We are testing a potential new recommender service for UC-eLinks The University of California Libraries will be experimenting with a 2-month trial of bX Recommender (http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/bXOverview), an academic library recommender service that points users to relevant scholarly articles on the […]
UC Libraries Statement on E-Book Access in Libraries
By Ivy Anderson, Director, Collection Development & Management As the UC Libraries explore options for the increased acquisition of e-books, we reaffirm the importance of fair use and equitable access to information, the principles on which all libraries stand. As […]
CDL Technical Requirements for Vendors – Revised and Improved!
By Holly Eggleston, Electronic Resource Analyst An updated version of the Technical Requirements for Licensed Resources document has been posted to http://www.cdlib.org/gateways/vendors/guidelines_technical.html. The Technical Requirements document is primarily intended for new and continuing vendors of CDL’s licensed electronic resources, but […]
Materials Research Society Publications – Platform transition
The Materials Research Society (MRS) has migrated its publishing content to the Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) platform. This migration affects local campus subscriptions to the Journals of Materials Research and the MRS Bulletin, as well as CDL licensed access to […]
World Banking Abstracts Transition
UC’s access to the licensed content (from 2006 to the present) of World Banking Abstracts (ISSN 0265-9484) was previously available via the Wiley Online Library platform. Wiley has now made World Banking Abstracts available on a new platform. As before, […]
New licensed resource: Sibu Congkan
UC campuses now have access to this electronic resource as part of a Tier 2 license. Some campuses may already have had access to this title through previous local campus subscriptions. Sibu Congkan 四部叢刊 (Online) (Tier 2 participating libraries include […]
New Licensed Resource – Colloquium digital library of life sciences: Collection 1
All UC campuses now have access to this electronic resource as part of a Tier 2 license. Some campuses may already have access to these titles through previous local campus subscriptions. Colloquium digital library of life sciences: Collection 1. (Tier 2 […]
Cancellation of Informa Healthcare Journals as of January 1, 2011
The Collection Development Officers at the ten UC campuses, the UC health and life science selectors (UCHLS) and CDL have decided to cancel the Informa Healthcare (IHC) systemwide license as of January 1, 2011. There were three important systemwide principles […]