Category: Shared Collections
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Chinese Databases (Classic Ancient Books & Local Records)
Eight campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, and Santa Barbara) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the Database of Chinese Classic Ancient Books or Zhongguo jiben guji ku (中国基本古籍庫) and to the […]
ScienceDirect to discontinue support of Internet Explorer 8
Elsevier/ScienceDirect is following Microsoft’s directive to focus support on newer, officially-supported IE browser versions. Microsoft announced in 2014 that, as of January 2016, it would only support the most recent IE browser version with technical support and security updates. We […]
Ebooks or Print Books or Both? Graduate Students Focus Group Study at UCSC
This week, UCSC and CDL have launched a research project to study academic user behaviors around print and digital monographs at various points during the research lifecycle. This project is already announced on UCSC library website: https://library.ucsc.edu/. In the next […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: September 2015
The first set of records for two new monographic packages were sent out last month, for Business Expert Press and for the Oxford Literature Handbooks. Business Expert Press promotes itself as providing “… concise, practical, treatments of the topics taught […]
NewsBank Interface Upgrade
NewsBank recently released interface chances for the Access World News and America’s News Magazines databases — http://uclibs.org/PID/98452. Enhancements include: Searching • More navigators by which the content can be explored • Searches can be refined either before or after conducting […]
Ovid User Interface Enhancements
The OVID interface (UC’s current host platform for the Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins titles) will be undergoing an interface upgrade on September 30, 2015, including changes to Journal Views (Journal Listings View [see below], Journal Title View and Journal Full […]
CDL’s Shared Cataloging Program helps support alternative press/open access resource
SCP staff are constantly on the lookout for how their cataloging can be leveraged for the greater good. Such an opportunity recently presented itself with the licensing by CDL of 800 titles offered by Reveal Digital in their Independent Voices […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Gunsho Ruiju Online
Nine campuses (all except UCSF) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to Gunsho Ruiju Online. http://uclibs.org/PID/168427 (B, D, I, LA, M, R, SD, SB and SC; on the JapanKnowledge platform) The Gunsho Ruiju series is […]
Informa Healthcare journals moving to the Taylor and Francis platform on September 1st
As of September 1, Informa Healthcare journal content will be hosted on the Taylor and Francis platform. This follows the transfer in management of the Informa Healthcare titles to Taylor and Francis in January 2015. Users should be automatically directed to […]
Readex Interface Enhancements, released August 19
Readex released changes to the Early American Newspapers and Early American Imprints databases on August 19, 2015. These changes affect the local databases only, and do not affect the larger Archive of Americana interface. Changes to these database interfaces include: […]