Category: Shared Collections
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].
New Resources Available
a. JSTOR Biological Sciences Collection By John Bloomberg-Rissman (UC Riverside ), CDL Resource Liaison UC now has access to JSTOR’s Biological Sciences Collection. This collection is growing, and will include at least 100 titles when it is completed in 2007. […]
SCP Cataloging Priorities
By Adolfo R. Tarango (UC San Diego), Head, Shared Cataloging Program Unit Shared Cataloging Program staff have posted an “SCP Cataloging Priorities” document. The document should address many questions campus staff may have regarding SCP cataloging priorities and how they […]
CDL Resource Liaisons
The CDL is pleased to announce the appointment of the following CDL Resource Liaisons: American Assoc. Cancer Research Journals – Penny Coppernoll-Blach, UC San Diego ATLA Religion Database – Jan Carter, UC Berkeley CIAO – Jesse Silva, UC Berkeley Digital […]
New Resources Available
a. ATLA Religion Database, Index Islamicus, Philosopher’s Index By Jan Carter, UC Berkeley The CDL is pleased to announce access to three new databases in philosophy and religious studies available from CSA. The ATLA (American Theological Library Association) Religion Database […]
New Resources Available
a. Education Index Retrospective By Diane Childs (UCLA), Resource Liaison Education Index Retrospective, with indexing for 1929 through 1983, has recently been purchased by the CDL. On WilsonWeb, it complements the current UC subscription to Education Full Text (with indexing 1983-; […]
Updated CDL Technical Requirements for Vendors
The CDL’s technical requirements for database and ejournal vendors were updated in April 2006. These documents reflect new or revised sections on information security, preservation, metasearch, and authentication via Shibboleth. They are intended to be shared with database and ejournal […]