Category: Shared Collections
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 […]
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, […]