Category: Shared Collections
FirstSearch Changes (Kay Collins, UCI)
FirstSearch recently made some changes to their databases. Essentially, they are cosmetic, but it does make navigating the various databases much easier and search functions which are available are much more apparent. Most changes are the same for all the […]
Los Angeles Times Joins Proquest Historical Newspapers (Elliot Kanter, UCSD)
On June 28, 2003, Proquest released the first segment of the Historical Los Angeles Times, 1881-1923. Because of unexpected production difficulties with the layout and design of the early newspapers, about 30 percent (between 1904 and 1914) was left out […]
CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections Appointments
Effective July 1, 2003, CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) appointments: -Rhonda Neugebauer, Interim Head of Collection Development, Riverside: Appointed -Lucia Snowhill, Collections Coordinator, Santa Barbara: Reappointed Lucia has made substantial contributions to the JSC, especially as chair […]
New Resources Available
NOTE: New resources listed below may not yet be in the CDL Directory of Collections and Services; they will be added within the next 2 weeks. You can access them directly from the URL provided. a. Image Collections via Luna […]
New Resources Available
NOTE: New resources listed below may not yet be in the CDL Directory of Collections and Services; they will be added within the next 2 weeks. You can access them directly from the URL provided. A list of recently added […]
New Services Available: New "Ask-A-Librarian" Links in Ovid and OCLC Databases
The Ask a Librarian feature will be activated on June 17 in the Ovid databases (BIOSIS Previews, Ei Compendex*Plus, Current Contents, INSPEC, MLA International Bibliography) for all campuses except UC Berkeley. This feature will also be implemented in OCLC FirstSearch […]
CDL is Pleased to Announce New Resource Liaisons
Resource Liaisons perform an extremely valuable service to the University; making sure our licensed resources work to our satisfaction, in the best possible way for users. Please welcome these new Resource Liaisons, and feel free to contact them for any […]
New Resources Available
NOTE: New resources listed below may not yet be in the CDL Directory of Collections and Services; they will be added within the next 2 weeks. You can access them directly from the URL provided. A list of recently added […]
Change to PubMed’s Automatic Term Mapping (Janice Contini, UCLA; PubMed Resource Liaison)
Change to PubMed’s Automatic Term Mapping will affect phrase searching. NLM plans to improve the ability of PubMed to find appropriate Medical Subject Headings (MeSH terms) by removing the phrase list table from the Automatic Term Mapping. What is MeSH […]
Open Access Resources
The CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) recommended, and SOPAG concurred, that selected freely available ejournal content be linked (via UC-eLinks), cataloged by Shared Cataloging, entered into the CDL Directory, and monitored as other resources are (see http://www.cdlib.org/groups/jsc/ […]