Category: Licensed Resources
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 […]
UCSC Librarians in Print
UCSC’s Christy Hightower, Science and Engineering Collections Coordinator, and Christy Caldwell, Science and Engineering Librarian, recently published an article in the Fall 2010 issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship (ISTL). Their article, Shifting Sands: Science Researchers on Google […]
New Licensed Resource: International Bibliography of Art (IBA)
UC campuses now have access to this electronic resource as part of CDL consortial licenses. International Bibliography of Art (IBA) (All UC campuses; on the CSA Illumina platform.) (http://uclibs.org/PID/105531) The definitive resource for scholarly literature on western art, the International […]
CrossFire Beilstein transitions to Reaxys for 2011
Access to the Beilstein database (via the CrossFire search interface) will end on December 31, 2010. The Beilstein database will be replaced by Reaxys, Elsevier’s workflow solution for research chemists. Reaxys search, analysis and workflow tools are designed around the […]
ProQuest Transition Delayed for UC
ProQuest databases are beginning a transition to a new platform beginning in January 2011; however, CDL will not activate the new platform until a later date. In CDL and Resource Liaison testing, we have discovered problems with Web VPN compatibility […]
New Licensed Resources – Asahi Kikuzo II Visual; People’s Daily
UC campuses now have access to these electronic resources as part of CDL consortial or Tier 2 licenses. (Some campuses may already have had access to these titles through previous local campus subscriptions.): Asahi Kikuzo II Visual, Premium Value Pack […]