Category: Licensed Resources
UC Continues to Support Open Access Resources
As part of UC’s continuing support of Open Access journals and alternatives to traditional publishing practices, UC campuses are now institutional supporting members of the two resources listed below. arXiv.org The University of California is now an institutional supporting member […]
Nature Publishing Group Price Increases Controversy Continues
The Nature Publishing Group has issued a response to a letter to UC faculty describing inflated price increases for the Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG) 67 journals (including Nature) that UC licenses. CDL Executive Director Laine Farley; Richard Schneider, Associate Professor, […]
Letter to UC Faculty on Nature Publishing Group Subscription Increases
A letter dated June 4, 2010 describing exorbitant subscription increases on the part of the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) for the 67 journals UC licenses (including Nature) was distributed to UC faculty by campus librarians with the support of faculty […]
Immediate Change: Time, Inc. Titles Removed from LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis has informed us that Time Inc. has decided to withdraw its publications from all LexisNexis services, effective immediately. Previously, LexisNexis Academic was restricted to rolling coverage of the most recent 2 years for the titles shown below. As of […]
CDL Users Council: You can view this year’s sessions
By Ellen Meltzer, Information Services Manager From your desktop, you can attend sessions on CDL program activities tailored for Users Council. UC campuses and selected California institutions have a Users Council member who monitors communications to and from the CDL, […]
CDL to Investigate Mobile Device Use
By Rachael Hu, User Experience Design Manager CDL is beginning a formal exploration and investigation into mobile device use on the UC campuses and how that impacts our services. We will be: Studying mobile device user patterns to inform CDL […]
More details about the Scientific American Archive Online discontinuation
By Jayne Dickson, CDL Information Services Analyst As reported earlier this month, the Scientific American Archive Online (SAAO) will no longer be available after May 31, 2010. See Scientific American Archive (EBSCO) to be Discontinued by Publisher on May 31, […]
Scientific American Archive (EBSCO) to be Discontinued by Publisher on May 31, 2010
Scientific American was acquired by the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) in 2009. NPG is discontinuing access to the Scientific American Archive on EBSCO on May 31, 2010. UC Libraries have decided not to license Scientific American on the Nature.com platform. […]
BHA Database is now available via the Getty’s web site
By Jayne Dickson, CDL Information Services Analyst UC’s access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) database via the CSA Illumina platform was discontinued yesterday (March 31, 2010) since it had been reported that the Getty Research Institute […]
Journal Value Metrics Webinars Scheduled for May 2010
By Jacqueline Wilson, CDL Senior Associate for Shared Content CDL will host four sessions of Value-based Journal Metrics/Journal Review Process, 2011 on: Wednesday, May 12, 2:00 – 3:30 PM Thursday, May 13, 3:00 – 4:30 PM Monday, May 17, 11:00 […]