Category: Shared Collections
New Resource Available
a. GLBT Life (EBSCO) By Gary Colmenar (Resource Liaison), UC Santa Barbara The CDL is pleased to announce access to GLBT Life, a comprehensive online index to the literature related to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender issues. The database contains […]
New Resource Available
a. Factiva By Michael Oppenheim (Resource Liaison), UCLA Factiva, from Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive LLC, is a new Tier 2 acquisition negotiated on behalf of seven participating campuses: UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Merced, UC Riverside, […]
NISC Improves Its Interface
The database provider, NISC, has asked the CDL to move to a new interface as of November 1. UC licenses the following databases from NISC (Your campus may license additional databases as well.): African Studies Black Studies Database Family and […]
New CDL Resource Liaisons
The CDL is pleased to announce the appointment of the following CDL Resource Liaisons: ArtBibliographies Modern (Tier 2) — Krista Ivy, UC Riverside Bibliography of the History of Art — Susan Jurist, UC San Diego Contemporary Women’s Issues — Sherri […]
UC Libraries Partner With Technology Companies and Non-Profits to Provide Free Public Access to Digital Books
The University of California libraries are participating in a new partnership to build a freely accessible digital library with materials drawn from across the world. The UC libraries will contribute books and resources in order to build a collection of […]
Expanded Academic ASAP Gets a New URL And a New Look
At long last Gale has everything in place the switch to the new Expanded Academic ASAP platform, will now occur on September 21. This is the switch that was previously scheduled to happen on August 15, and was delayed so […]
FIAF International Film Archive, Film Index International, Film Literature Index
The CDL is pleased to announce UC access to three new film resources: FIAF International Film Archive, Film Index International, and the Film Literature Index. Developed by the British Film Institute, FII gives full international coverage of films and film […]
PAIS Archive
Beth Sibley (UC Berkeley) Resource Liaison The PAIS Archive was recently released by CSA and thanks to CDL funding is now available for all campuses on the CSA Illumina platform. The current coverage is 1937-1976 with the rest of the […]
The Age of Reason arrives at UC: ECCO
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is the digitization of 150,000 works published in the United Kingdom between 1701 and 1800. It includes a variety of materials from books and directories, Bibles, sheet music and sermons to advertisements and […]
Springer Online Journal Archive Update
By Adolfo Tarango, UCSD Springer Online Journal Archives include approximately 1,200 journal titles in eleven subject area packages, which are being released from May 2005 to October 2005. Springer has told CDL that by October 95% of all archival content […]