Category: Shared Collections
Shared Collections Subject Area Surveyors
The Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSCSC) has identified those selectors who will help survey digital collection issues in disciplinary areas. These individuals will represent existing selector groups and additional disciplinary areas to help identify the range of digital […]
JSTOR Update
Users may presently access the JSTOR collection at the article level only by linking directly to the JSTOR Web site. (See CDLINFO Issue #13 for a description of the collection and access information.) You can also access JSTOR journal titles […]
IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL) Site Now Available
The IEEE CSDL and the California Digital Library (CDL) have agreed to offer an experiment allowing users to connect to individual articles in journals produced by the IEEE Computer Society. This experiment ends December 31, 1998. The CSDL offers its […]
JSTOR Collection of Journals is Now Accessible by UC Users
This collection contains full-text articles in 55 journals covering Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, and Sociology. JSTOR plans to make available 100 titles by January 1, 2000. Titles such as American […]
OCLC Ports and Response Time Developments
Over the past several months, CDL has collected detailed statistics about the causes of turnaways to OCLC’s FirstSearch databases. While the largest number of turnaways is due to ports being full, there is still concern over the percentage of network-related […]
Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections Plans (by Alan Ritch)
Having laid the foundations of the Science, Technology and Industry Collection (STIC), the California Digital Library (CDL) is entering a new phase of collection building, anticipating the development of collections in other disciplines. Earlier this year, the CDL Operations and […]
New Resources Available
Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) Available via the Melvyl Web Interface (with input from Harold Colson, UC San Diego). The Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) <http://lcweb2.loc.gov/law/GLINv1/GLIN.html> is now available via the Melvyl Web interface by clicking on Resources in the […]
Creation of the CDL’s Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections
The CDL is pleased to announce the membership of the CDL’s Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections. The Steering Committee will include Clinton Howard (UC Davis), Barbara Kornstein (UC Berkeley), Alan Ritch (UC Santa Cruz), and Cynthia Shelton (UCLA), each […]
CDL Shared Collections and Services Sets Up Acquisitions at UC San Diego
(Beverlee French, Associate Director, Shared Collections and Services) Part of the focus of my first month at the California Digital Library has been to establish acquisitions procedures for the CDL. This follows the important collaborative work among campuses of creating […]
Access to Internet Resources and Electronic Journals — STAT-USA/INTERNET and SIAM Journals Online Now Available via the Melvyl System
(The information on STAT-USA was provided by Linda Kennedy, Head, Government Documents Department.) STAT-USA/INTERNET, a product of the Department of Commerce, is a web-based subscription source of extensive and authoritative government-sponsored business, economic, and trade information data. It is updated […]