Category: Shared Collections
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. […]
CDL’s Response to the Nature Publishing Co.’s Licensing Model
On the What’s New at the CDL page: <http://www.cdlib.org/news/whatsnew.html>, under “Communiques,” there is now a link to a recent letter from CDL to Nature Publishing Co. The letter, composed with the help of the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections, […]
Access to PAIS International via Z39.50 ends January 28
Access to the OCLC version of the PAIS International database via Z39.50 for both the web and telnet interfaces for the CDL hosted databases will cease on January 28th. OCLC has recently made extensive changes to the file structure for […]
New SciFinder® Scholar Client Provides Search Enhancements (Marion Peters, UCLA
SciFinder® Scholar 2000, released Fall 2000 by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), offers UC users several search enhancements. Scholar2000 adds access to 11 million records from OLDMEDLINE and MEDLINE for searching in conjunction with the 16 million Chemical Abstracts CAplus (1967- […]