Category: Shared Collections
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 […]
New Resource Available
a. Release 3 of Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment from Alexander Street Press (Jane Faulkner, UC Santa Barbara) Alexander Street Press has just announced Release 3 of Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and […]
New Resource Liaisons Appointed
CDL is pleased to announce the appointment of the following new Resource Liaisons: –American Physical Society Journals: Elaine Adams, UCLA –ARTBibliographies Modern: Ellen Kempf, UCSB –Current Protocols: Anneliese Taylor, UCSF –INSPEC: Karen Andrews, UCD –Oxford Reference Online, OED, American National […]
New MIT CogNet Interface Now Available (Keir Reavie, UCSF Resource Liaison)
A new version of the MIT CogNet Cognitive Sciences resource is now available. The new version presents a streamlined, easy to navigate interface that employs tabs for quick access to all sections of the resource, including the CogNet Library of […]
New Resources Available
a. Safari Tech Books Online Safari Tech Books Online negotiations were completed by Julia Gelfand at UCI. Six participating campuses will pay an annual subscription fee and share 15 simultaneous user ports for the IT collection: Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, […]
Wilson Art Index Retrospective, Art Full Text: An Update (Susan Moon, UCSB)
After discussions with H.W. Wilson, UC librarians, and CDL, some very useful changes were made to ArtFull Text and Art Index Retrospective. Default for Basic search is now Boolean not Natural Language. Though the Advanced search is the default, there […]
New Resources Available
NOTE: New resources listed below are not yet 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. American Physiological Society (APS) Legacy […]
New Resource Liaisons Appointed
CDL is pleased to announce the appointment of the following new Resource Liaisons: Paul Machlis, UCSC — RISM (International Inventory of Musical Sources) Sheila O’Hare, UCSC — Early American Imprints (Evans Digital Edition) Jenny Reiswig, UCSD — Blackwell Science Journals […]
New BIOSIS Previews URL; bookmark that PID!
Beth Weil, the BIOSIS Previews Resource Liaison, recently uncovered a problem with access to Ovid’s BIOSIS Previews database. In reviewing the statistics from Ovid for this database, it became clear that all UC campuses have a significant number of sessions […]