Category: Shared Collections
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 […]
New Resources Available
a. U.S. Congressional Serial Set By Linda Kennedy, UC Davis The UC libraries now have access to Readex’s digitized version of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set at: http://uclibs.org/PID/42461 The U.S. Congressional Serial Set is a collection of primary source materials […]
Current Contents to be Cancelled
This is a reminder that Current Contents via Ovid will be cancelled as of January 1, 2005. The CDL will send a series of three reminders to UC patrons who currently have CC Alerts on October, November, and December 1. […]
New Resources Available
a. Vanderbilt Television News Archives By Gary Handman (UC Berkeley), Resource Liaison Over the course of the last half century, television has become thoroughly integrated into the cultural and political life of the global village. Yet despite the increasing significance […]
Use of Watermarking Technology
The CDL is inserting language about watermarks in its contracts with publishers and vendors and in its technical requirements documents for database and ejournal vendors. A digital watermark is a visible or invisible identification code that is permanently embedded into […]
New Resources Available
a. Royal Society of Chemistry Archive By Cory Craig (UC Davis), Resource Liaison All UC campuses now have access to the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Archive of journals published from 1841-1996. Online access to the RSC journals is available […]