Category: Shared Collections
EBSCO Agreement
CDL has signed an agreement with EBSCO to negotiate on CDL’s behalf for systemwide licenses with a selected number of publishers for access to their electronic journals. The agreement was signed following the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) […]
New Resource Available
a. Royal Society of Chemistry In another example of successful co-investment by UC campuses and the CDL, all Royal Society of Chemistry Journals are now available to all campuses. Although subscribed titles were previously available to each campuses, systemwide access […]
CRL Displays in Periodicals Titles
When the CDL expanded displays in the California Periodicals database to include the CULP and SERHOLD locations, a feature was added that allows users to display holdings within a geographic region of California defined by the Library of California. The […]
Web of Science (WoS) Increase Simultaneous Users; Additional Journals Linked (Beth Weil, UCB)
Effective November 1, 2000 UC access to Web Of Science (WoS) increased from 40 simultaneous users to 120 simultaneous users, thanks to additional funding commitments from the campuses in 2001 and more favorable port pricing negotiated by CDL; CDL will […]
SilverLinker Coverage by Database and by Publisher
SilverLinker enables direct access from SilverPlatter’s bibliographic citation databases to electronic journals and also to holdings information from the California Periodicals Database. As reported earlier this year, CDL contracted with SilverPlatter to include SilverLinker for all campus accounts and SilverLinker […]
New Resource Available
a. MIT CogNet: The Cognitive and Brain Sciences Community Online The CDL has licensed and funded MIT CogNetÙ [http://cognet.mit.edu], for all campuses. Cognet is a SPARC-supported project (learn more about SPARC: http://www.arl.org/sparc/). The Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) […]
New Resource Available
a. Harcourt Health Sciences Collection Harcourt Health Sciences Collection of 64 medical and scientific journals is now available through Academic Press [http://www.idealibrary.com/]. A complete list of journals published now on IDEAL is viewable at http://www.idealibrary.com/links/journals. NOTE: The Harcourt Health Sciences […]
Statistical Information Available
The Usage Statistics page on Libstaff has been updated [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/stats/]. There are several new 1999 and 2000 usage data reports that include usage data “by campus” and “by journal title.”
New Resource Available
a. Ethnic NewsWatch Historical File The CDL has entered a charter subscription for the Ethnic NewsWatch Historical File. The first release of “Ethnic NewsWatch: A History” will be available in Fall/Winter 2000 – with completion scheduled for Winter 2003. When […]
Bibliographer Group Surveys Available
Responses from the May 2000 Subject Selector Surveys for Digital Collection Development are now available on the libstaff web site [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/jsc/#surveys]. The surveys are conducted by the CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSCSC) as part of its role […]