Category: Shared Collections
Periodical Contents Index (PCI) Full Text No Longer Available
Before the license amendment was signed for PCI additional segments and PCI Full Text, the vendor changed the terms of the agreement. Due to this change, the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) recommended that CDL cancel the purchase […]
New Resources Available
a. Springer LINK Books/Book Series The recently signed Springer LINK journals contract was expanded to include the LINK Books/Book Series. The full list of Springer LINK Books/Book Series is available at http://link.springer-ny.com/ol/bookser.htm. To access the full content, click on the […]
Company of Biologists (COB) Now Available on Highwire Press (Barbara Schader, UCLA
As of June 15th, the three Company of Biologists (COB) titles are now available on Highwire Press. The new URLs for the 3 titles published by Company of Biologists are: DEVELOPMENT [http://dev.biologists.org/ ] JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE [http://jcs.biologists.org/] JOURNAL OF […]
New Resources Available
a. The Index to Current Urban Documents (ICUD) (Julia Gelfand, UCI) Coordinated by Julia Gelfand, five campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, Irvine and San Diego) have licensed the Index to Current Urban Documents (ICUD) [http://uclibs.org/PID/7547] as a Tier 2 resource. […]
Statistics Summary Report Available
The second annual 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 (January – December 2000). As explained in the report’s […]
Nature Licensing Update
Some of the major concerns regarding Nature’s institutional model have been addressed, so the CDL has begun licensing negotiations. There are still several outstanding issues that need to be resolved. See the complete update at: (http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/historical/index.html)
Access to Kluwer Full-Text (Julia Gelfand, UCI)
For most Kluwer and Kluwer affiliate content licensed by the CDL, full-text access is available to all UC users. There are, however, still some cases where full text is not yet available. In these cases, users attempting to access full […]
Robots or Intelligent Agents and IEEE Xplore System
Licenses negotiated by the CDL often describe and limit certain types of use. For example, some licenses do not allow activity from robots/intelligent agents. (Robots/intelligent agents are programs that automatically traverse the Web’s hypertext structure by retrieving a document and […]
Elsevier ScienceDirect Access to Some "Non-Subscribed" Journals Now Available
In response to the CDL’s request, Elsevier has activated direct access to many more ScienceDirect journals. Previously UC faculty, students, and staff could access directly only those journals marked with the green “subscribed” icon; now Elsevier imprint titles with the […]
SciFinder Scholar Adds More New Content (Marion Peters, UCLA
SciFinder Scholar 2000 now provides access to literature and patents from 1947 to the present. On April 22, 2001, bibliographic information and abstracts were added for over 2.2 million references published in Chemical Abstracts from 1947 to 1966. Users May: […]