Category: Shared Collections
2005 Annual Usage Statistics Report Available
Selective Tier One and Tier Two journal and database usage statistics for calendar year 2005 are now available on the Inside CDL website at http://www.cdlib.org/inside/assess/usage_statistics.html#2005. There are two reports included: Ejournal articles viewed by campus and Database searches by campus. […]
Retrospective Bibliographic Searching in the Life Sciences
By Beth Weil (UC Berkeley), Web of Science Resource Liaison UC has just obtained access to the Biosis backfile (Biosis Archive) which comprehensively covers the biological sciences literature from 1926-1968. The current Biosis file has covered the data from 1969-present. […]
New Citation Report provides H Index
The latest quarterly software update for Web of Science introduced a new feature called the Citation Report. It captures citation activity and identifies citation trends. The Citation Report enables you to instantly create formatted reports for any General Search (author, […]
UC Electronic Resources Management System (ERMS) Project Update
The following is a summary of recent ERMS project activities, and plans for the coming months. Ex Libris product manager Ted Koppel visited the CDL in November. As a result of this meeting, CDL is in the process of upgrading […]
Mass Digitization: Open Content Alliance and the UC Libraries
On December 6, 2006, Microsoft released the beta Live Search Books (http://books.live.com), providing a new portal to access UC libraries books scanned by the Internet Archive (IA) for the Open Content Alliance. An initial review of Microsoft’s service was provided […]
SCP Use of OpenURLs
Becky Culbertson, Manager, Shared Cataloging Program, reported that on July 1, SCP catalogers began to use SFX OpenURLs on new and existing serial records. These URLs will be used in lieu of PIDs to the greatest extent possible. The same […]
New Resource Available
a. North American Women’s Drama By Jane Faulkner (UC Santa Barbara), Resource Liaison North American Women’s Drama is a full-text database of 1500 plays written by women from the United States and Canada from the Colonial period to the present. […]
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Discontinued
UC’s consortial license to the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals will be discontinued by RLG on August 31, 2006. This specialized database is continuing on the Ovid platform. Two campuses, UC Berkeley and UCLA, will continue to purchase this resource […]
New Resource Available
a. CDL’s eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) 1.8 Now Available Version 1.8 of the CDL’s eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) is now available for download from SourceForge: http://xtf.sourceforge.net. In addition to minor bug fixes and features, this release contains two major new […]
UC Libraries Partner With Google To Digitize Books
Yesterday, the UC libraries announced their partnership with Google to digitize books from the libraries’ collections. See the press release at: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/2006/aug09.html. Additional information about the partnership is also available on the CDL website: [http://www.cdlib.org/news/google.htm].