Category: Shared Collections
New Resource Available
a. Early American Newspapers (1690-1876) The CDL has acquired Early American Newspapers (1690-1876) (http://uclibs.org/PID/42513), a historical collection of American newspapers from Readex/Newsbank. The Early American Newspapers (EAN) collection was formed by Isaiah Thomas’ collection of colonial and early national period […]
MLA Via Ovid: Access Extended Through June 2005
MLA is removing their database (MLA International Bibliography) from Ovid. Their intent was to not renew any MLA accounts with Ovid if the account expired after July 2004. UC’s contract was up for renewal in fall 2004 and this meant […]
New Resources Available
a. PCIFT Collection 4 By Myrtis Cochran (Resource Liaison), UC Berkeley Pursuant to advice from the Collection Development Committee and UC bibliographers, the CDL licensed perpetual rights to a new collection of Periodicals Contents Index Full Text (PCIFT), the leading […]
CDL Joins RLG
The CDL has recently become a member of RLG, a not-for-profit organization of universities, libraries, archives, and museums who are working to improve access to the information that supports research and learning: http://www.rlg.org/ Membership in RLG will provide the CDL […]
For Easy Access to ED Documents, Use ERIC Via CSA
By Diane Childs (Resource Liaison), UCLA More than 100,000 ERIC documents published in 2003 or earlier and indexed from January 1993 through July 2004 are now available from ERIC via CSA. Through UC-eLinks, users can click on the option full […]
New Resources Available
a. EBSCO Business Source Premier By Adam Siegel (Interim Resource Liaison), UC Davis EBSCO’s Business Source Premier is now available to all 10 campuses. For more information about the transition to EBSCO from ProQuest ABI Inform, see the previous issue […]
Successful Negotiation for SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts Service)
to increase UC access to SciFinder Scholar. The negotiation success with ACS was unique: it resulted from a convergence of similar financial concerns expressed by both UC faculty who are ACS members and UC librarians who offer SciFinder Scholar as […]
CDL Joins Project COUNTER
The CDL has recently become a member of Project COUNTER (http://www.projectcounter.org/), which is working to improve the quality and consistence of usage reporting in libraries. Producers and purchasers of online information products have parallel interests in measuring and reporting the […]
Transition to EBSCO Business Source Premier from ProQuest ABI Inform
The UC campuses will have systemwide access to a new business resource on October 1, 2004: EBSCO Business Source Premier. At the same time, there will be continued systemwide access to ProQuest ABI Inform through August 1, 2005. After that, […]
New Resources Available
a. Early-American Imprints Series II By Sheila O’Hare (UC Santa Cruz), Resource Liaison The CDL has reached an agreement with Shaw-Shoemaker to license the Early-American Imprints Series II. Each campus has the following options for linking to this resource: An […]