Category: Shared Collections
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: […]
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 […]