Category: Shared Collections
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: […]
eBook Task Force Final Report Complete
CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) eBook Task Force’s final report on the emerging eBook market and its implications has been completed. The Task Force members included Lucia Snowhill (JSC, Chair), Karen Coyle (CDL), Mary Engle (CDL), Anna […]
IEEE Journal-level Links (Camille Wanat, UCB)
If you’ve searched for IEEE journals or magazines lately in either the CDL Directory or any of the CDL-hosted databases, you will have noticed a recent and positive change–direct journal-level links for these titles have been added. In the CDL […]
New Resource Available
a. The Ethnic NewsWatch: A History The Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, licensed in fall 2000 (see CDLINFO Vol.3, No.12: http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo090600.html#1) is now offering its first release of content, covering the years 1975-1989. The Ethnic NewsWatch: A History will eventually extend […]
New Resource Available
a. ERIC E*Subscribe On the recommendation of the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) and the UC Education and Psychology bibliographers, the CDL has licensed the current years of ERIC E*Subscribe (1996-present) [http://www.edrs.com/Esubscribe] for all campuses. The contract is […]
MEDLINE/HealthSTAR Regeneration 2001
NLM has begun sending new MEDLINE records to CDL and we are now loading these into our MEDLINE/HealthSTAR database. Users with Updates will begin to see new records this week. Please remember that CDL’s MEDLINE coverage is NOT the same […]
New Resources Available
a. Mary Ann Liebert Journals The CDL has licensed the Mary Ann Liebert journals [http://www.liebertonline.com/], a smaller publisher whose primary focus is in the areas of biomedical research and clinical medicine. Online access is provided via the CatchWord platform. Currently […]
New Resources Available
a. Periodicals Contents Index Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) is a multi-disciplinary database, purchased through CDL and campus co-investments in 1999. It contains separate citations to over ten million journal articles and covers many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. […]