Category: Shared Collections
New Resource Liaisons Appointed
The CDL is pleased to announce the appointment of a new group of Resource Liaisons: Crossfire (Tier 2): Chuck Huber, UC Santa Barbara CRCnetBase: Deanna Johnson, UC Davis Digital Library of German Classics (Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker): Jim Spohrer, UC […]
Dekker Encyclopedias: Available for Trial February 17-March 31, 2004
By Julia Gelfand (UC Irvine), Resource Liaison From February 17 through March 31, the UC libraries will trial the 12 encyclopedias currently published by Marcel Dekker for a potential Tier 2 acquisition on a title-by-title basis: Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food […]
New Resource Available
a. New England Journal of Medicine The CDL has reached an agreement to license the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) electronic journal, available at: http://content.nejm.org/. The electronic journal contains full-text articles from the New England Journal of Medicine, excluding […]
Computer Database and National Newspaper Index: Databases to be Deselected
After much discussion and campus input, two indexing and abstracting databases were chosen to be cut in 2004 because of budget reductions: the Computer Database and the National Newspaper Index. These databases were selected because their content is largely duplicative […]
Co-Branding for Library Resources
Recently, more database and ejournal vendors have allowed their products to be “co-branded” by campus institutions. Knowing that there has been a growing interest in the possibilities for co-branding, and wanting to facilitate campus and systemwide use of this opportunity, […]
Earthquake Engineering Abstracts (EEA) Database Changes Platforms
The Earthquake Engineering Abstracts (EEA) database is now available to the UC community as part of the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) databases in civil, environmental, and mechanical engineering. Charles James, UC Berkeley’s Earthquake Engineering Research Center’s (EERC) Librarian and Information […]
New Resource Available
a. Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker (Digital Library of German Classics) By Jim Spohrer, UC Berkeley The Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker (Digital Library of German Classics) contains all of the works in the Deutscher Klassiker Verlag printed editions except works by […]
New Position: Search Begins for Director of Shared Print Collections
(Courtesy Announcement for Systemwide Library Planning) Daniel Greenstein, Associate Vice Provost for Systemwide Library Planning, has appointed a search committee to assist in filling the unique and challenging position of Director of Shared Print Collections for the University of California […]
Anthropology Plus: Two RLG Databases Become One
As of January 1, 2004, two RLG anthropology databases “Anthropological Literature” and “Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute” became available as a single database, RLG’s new “Anthropology Plus” database. Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited […]
Shared Content: Signed License Agreements Now Distributed in PDF
The CDL is now sending the campuses completed license agreements executed by the CDL for shared digital content in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). In the past, licensing staff at the CDL sent these documents in paper to each campus […]