Category: Shared Collections
ProQuest User Interface Trial
The UC was one of only a handful of institutions selected to evaluate a new interface and search features being developed by ProQuest. UC librarians voiced their opinions via an online survey and several conference calls. On the UC Irvine […]
Reed-Elsevier: Title Lists Available
Effective January 1, 2004, the UC community has had access to a selected list of approximately 1,200 of Reed-Elsevier’s scholarly journals, including titles produced by Harcourt Health Sciences, Academic Press, and Cell Press. The Reed-Elsevier titles and their status in […]
Kluwer Online Journals: Feature Changes and Enhancements
By Julia Gelfand (UC Irvine), Resource Liaison Kluwer has just finished rolling out feature changes and enhancements to the Kluwer Online Journals platform at http://journals.kluweronline.com/. Some additional features added to the journals site include: Outbound reference linking via CrossRef for […]
New Resource Available
a. CrossFire By Chuck Huber (UC Santa Barbara), Resource Liaison Starting in February, the UC has had systemwide access to CrossFire, a chemistry database system from MDL, Inc., a division of Reed-Elsevier. Previously, several UC campuses had subscribed to part […]
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 […]