Category: Shared Collections
Resource Update: Free Version Replacing Licensed Version
On July 1 the licensed versions of Books in Print and Encyclopedia Britannica will no longer be available. The Collection Development Committee (CDC) with input from the Joint Steering Committee (JSC) and campus staff have chosen to not renew contracts […]
Persistent Identifier Server
The CDL Technologies group is working with the Shared Cataloging staff at UC San Diego (the “DISC” unit: Digital Information and Serials Cataloging – (http://tpot.ucsd.edu/msdunits/scu/index.html) to establish a prototype persistent identifier server. The advent of Shared Cataloging highlighted the urgency […]
Historical Newspaper Online now available
Historical Newspapers Online (available at: http://historynews.chadwyck.com/) contains indexes of newspaper articles from The Times® and The New York Times and a substantial portion of full-text for The Times. It is comprised of 4 databases: -Palmer’s Index to The Times (coverage: […]
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Developments (Linda Kennedy, UCD)
Keeping up to date with changes in Lexis Nexis Academic Universe is a challenge; new titles are added and deleted every month. There are currently more than 5,000 sources covered in the database. The “Sources” button on the Academic Universe […]
New CDL-hosted Databases Available from the Web
In addition to accessing Francis and Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals through the RLG Eureka interface, users can now access them from the CDL-hosted databases interface (via z39.50 protocol). a. Francis The FRANCIS database contains more than one million […]
Shared Cataloging Records Update
These files will be processed and loaded into the California Periodicals database by April 24. After this initial file transfer, file updates are expected on a weekly basis. Production of Shared Cataloging records for CDL electronic journals began in January […]
New CDL-hosted Databases Available from the Web (Christine Bunting, UCSC)
a. Bibliography of Art (BHA) The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) is the most comprehensive art history bibliography available. It includes abstracted articles from 2,500 international periodicals, books, conference proceedings, collected essays, exhibition and art dealer’s catalogs and […]
IEEE Xplore is Now Available (Camille Wanat, UCB)
UC now has access to IEEE Xplore, a browse and search interface providing full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE standards. It also includes IEE publications for the same time […]
Web of Science Backfiles Now Available (Beth Weil, UCB)
CDL has negotiated a backfile purchase providing all campuses with data back to 1975 for ISI Citation Databases (via Web of Science): Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). Some […]
New CDL Resource Liaisons Appointed
Welcome and thank you to the following new Resource Liaisons: Karen Andrews (UCD) – Institute of Physics journals Joan Ariel (UCI) – Contemporary Women’s Issues Peter Brueggeman (UCSD) – Georef (@Stanford) Michaelyn Burnette (UCB) – Poole’s Plus: The Digital Index […]