Category: Shared Collections
CopyrightMD
The California Digital Library is making available the first draft of its XML schema for copyright metadata, CopyrightMD. This schema grew out of work at the CDL to address the integration of rights information into the digital library workflow. During […]
NISC’s “Africa-Wide NiPAD” replaces “African Studies” and incorporates “South African Studies”
By Ruby Bell-Gam (Resource Liaison), UCLA NISC is discontinuing its “African Studies” database, replacing it with the more comprehensive “Africa-Wide NiPAD”, which includes all of the content of two NISC databases, “African Studies” and “South African Studies”. The new database […]
Vendor Changes for the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals and the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
By Susan Koskinen (UC Berkeley), Resource Liaison, and Susan Jurist, (UC San Diego), Resource Liaison We are happy to announce that the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals and Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) will be available via CSA […]
Digital Dissertation Platform Change in Process
ProQuest is performing a phased migration of the Digital Dissertations database to the ProQuest interface. This move should be completed with ProQuest’s summer 2006 release. As part of this process, the ProQuest database menu now offers a link to the […]
Changes to the PubMed Limits Screen
By Cheryl A. Bartel (UCLA), PubMed Resource Liaison PubMed has made changes to the limits screen. The majority of the limits are functionally the same. The presentation, however, is dramatically different. Instead of the single short screen with drop-down menus, the […]
Global Books-in-Print Expands with Fiction Connection, Title Reviews, Chapter Excerpts.
Global Books-In-Print now comes with a readers’ advisory tool called Fiction Connection. You can use Fiction Connection to find book reviews, authors, or topics of interest. Fiction Connection draws its reviews from Library Journal, Choice, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, […]
New Resources Available
a. American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Journals AACR is the oldest and largest scientific organization in the world focused on every aspect of high-quality, innovative cancer research. AACR publishes five peer-reviewed scientific journals: Cancer Research; Clinical Cancer Research; Molecular Cancer […]
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Founded in 1995, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) is a dynamic, community-maintained, digital-only reference work. SEP currently contains more than 750 entries in 35 subject areas, including philosophy of science, aesthetics, history of ideas, feminism, ethics (theoretical and applied), […]
Duke University Press, eDuke Scholarly Collection Transitions From Ingenta to Highwire
By Emily Stambaugh (Resource Liaison), UC Riverside The eDuke Scholarly Collection has transitioned from Ingenta to Highwire, effective January 1, 2006. Early activation began December 15, 2005 and was completed by the end of the year for all campuses. Duke […]
CDL Link Resolver Services Web Site
A new CDL web page entitled “Link Resolver Services for UC” is now available at [http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/linkres]. The site includes documents, principles, specifications, assessment activities, and the members of the Link Resolver Planning Group. It was built to include materials related […]