Category: Shared Collections
Announcing New CDL Resources: Access, Timing and Timeliness
Many UC librarians have wondered about the timing of CDL announcements for new resources such as e-journal publishers or databases. In particular, they wonder why there is sometimes a lag between the time new resources are announced and the availability […]
New Resources Available
a. Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Digital Library (Karen Andrews, UCD) Berkeley, Davis, Irvine and Los Angeles now have a license for the Tier 2 resource SAE Digital Library [http://www.elecpubs.sae.org/NXT/gateway.dll?f=templates&fn=default.htm&vid=SAE:SAE2]. (Los Angeles and Berkeley will keep a current subscription to […]
GPO Gate Ceasing Production
GPO Gate Ceasing Production This is to inform users of GPO Gate that the University of California’s California Digital Library and the University of California, San Diego will cease production of GPO Gate on March 15th. GPO Gate, a web […]
SciFinder® Scholar Update: New Client and Historic Content Back to 1907 (Marion Peters, UCLA)
SciFinder® Scholar 2001, released this Fall by CAS, is available for downloading from UCLA’s Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Web site <http://dirac.chem.ucla.edu/scifind>. UC students, faculty, and staff need to install the SciFinder Scholar 2001 client (MS Windows or Apple Macintosh) […]
New Resources Available
a. The Royal Society Journal`s The Royal Society is the independent scientific academy of the United Kingdom, dedicated to promoting excellence in science. Its original journal Philosophical Transactions is, at 336 years old, the world’s oldest continuously published academic journal. […]
New Resource Available
a. Literature Resource Center (LRC) Literature Resource Center (LRC) from Gale Group has been licensed by the CDL for all 9 campuses. Recommended by History and Reference bibliographer groups and endorsed by the CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections, […]
Statistics Summary Report Available
The latest statistical profile of the CDL is now available from the “About the CDL” publications web site: <http://www.cdlib.org/about/publications/>, entitled The California Digital Library: Key Indicators of Collections and Use (July 1, 2000 – June 20, 2001). As explained in […]
Licensing Status Information
This is a reminder that you can find up-to-date information about the status of resources being licensed by the CDL. Details about ongoing negotiations and the status of recently licensed resources are available (“CDL Collections Update” available at [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/docs/]. Contact […]
New Resources Available
a. Music Index (Paul Machlis, UCSC) The UC Music Librarians represented by Paul Machlis at UC Santa Cruz have completed a Tier 2 negotiation with Harmonie Park Press for access, beginning 1 January 2002, to the Music Index (for all […]
SilverLinker
With the transitions of the MLA Bibliography and Compendex Plus databases from SilverPlatter to Ovid, the CDL no longer licenses databases on a system-wide basis on the SilverPlatter platform. However, the CDL has renewed the license to SilverLinker for UC […]