Category: Shared Collections
UC Davis and CDL complete Pay It Forward project
The University of California, Davis and the California Digital Library have recently completed the 18-month Pay It Forward project, an effort funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation. The project brought together research libraries at Harvard, Ohio […]
14.6 Million Books to be Made Available to Blind & Print-Disabled Readers
HathiTrust Digital Library is collaborating with the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) to make 14.6 million digital volumes fully accessible to blind and print-disabled readers in the United States. The two organizations have worked together to bring to fruition their […]
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) transitions to EBSCOhost
For the 8 participating UC campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and San Diego) access to the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS), which was previously provided by the University of Michigan Library, has transitioned to the […]
New Platform for Declassified Documents Reference System
The Declassified Documents Reference System has been launched and is now live on the Artemis platform from Gale Cengage. The DDRS is now known as U.S. Declassified Documents. http://uclibs.org/PID/6937 The U.S. Declassified Documents can now be cross-searched with the other […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – ACM Books (Collection I)
Four campuses (Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, and San Diego) are participating in the Tier 2 license for ACM Books (Collection I). http://uclibs.org/PID/283501 (B, I, LA, and SD; on the ACM Digital Library platform) ACM Books is a new series of […]
New Licensed Resource – JSTOR Arts & Sciences XV
Nine UC campuses (all except UCSF) now have access to the JSTOR Arts & Sciences XV Collection. http://uclibs.org/PID/1980 (B, D, I, LA, M, R, SB, SC, SD; on the JSTOR platform) From the JSTOR website… JSTOR’s Arts & Sciences XV […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: July 2016
For June 2016 record distributions, we added several new packages of monographs: ASCE (448 titles: 442 titles of conference proceedings and 6 titles of monographs), Cornell University Press online monographs (7 titles), new packages in Springer monographs: Behavioral science and […]
AnthroSource now included in systemwide Wiley contract
AnthroSource is an online portal serving the research, teaching and practicing needs of anthropologists. An online service of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource offers access to more than 100 years of anthropological knowledge. Current content includes 32 anthropological publications […]
IPv6 and access to library resources
IEEE recently updated their IEEEXplore platform to be IPv6 aware, which means that if a user’s machine has an IPv6 address assigned to it – even if the machine has both an IPv6 address and a regular IP (“IPv4”) address […]
Thomson Reuters Resources: Changes for 2016
With the new Web of Science/ISI contract, Journal Citation Reports (JCR) has moved to the InCites platform, which also includes a new to UC product, Essential Scientific Indicators (ESI). Together, JCR and ESI create Journal and Highly Cited Data (JHCD). […]