Category: Shared Collections
UC Libraries Discontinue Taylor & Francis Systemwide Journals License
Following a rigorous value assessment, the Libraries on the ten UC campuses and the California Digital Library (CDL) have discontinued their systemwide Taylor & Francis journals license in favor of local campus subscriptions effective January 1, 2013. Three important systemwide principles […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — June 2013
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services The NGTS cataloging pilot reached a milestone on Monday, June 10th, when SCP distributed the first set of records cataloged by staff at UC Irvine, about 170 Wiley e-books. UCI will continue sending […]
New Licensed Resource – JSTOR Arts & Sciences XII
UC campuses, except UCSF, now have access to JSTOR A & S XII as part of a CDL consortial license; on the JSTOR platform. JSTOR Arts & Sciences XII expands coverage of the social sciences, and comprises disciplines with high usage […]
UC Libraries partner with DPLA via HathiTrust
As announced today, HathiTrust Digital Library collections, including over 400,000 UC volumes, will be discoverable within the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) project. Of HathiTrust’s nearly 11 million volumes, the 3.5 million that are in the public domain or […]
New Licensed Resource: MIT Press eBooks in Computer Science and Engineering via IEEE Xplore
By Jean McKenzie, UC Berkeley, Resource Liaison Seven campuses now have access to the MIT Press eBooks Library: The Computing & Engineering Collection (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/books.jsp?refinementGroups=3343_4282906416_MITP&pageNumber=1) via IEEE Xplore. UCB, UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCR, UCSC and UCSD participated in this Tier 2 […]
SciVerse Hub is Retiring in August 2013
For those accessing Elsevier via the SciVerse Hub, the SciVerse Hub is being retired as of 24 August 2013. (CDL does not provide a database level record pointing to the SciVerse interface.) In order to ensure a smooth transition, Elsevier […]
HathiTrust May 2013 Update
May brings changes and challenges to HathiTrust as you can read in the May newsletter. This issue includes the following: A message from Executive Director John Wilkin on his appointment as the Dean of Libraries at the University of Illinois. […]
SciFinder Moves to Unlimited Access
By Teri Vogel, UCSD, SciFinder Resource Liaison The University of California Libraries now have unlimited access for Chemical Abstracts Service’s (CAS) SciFinder. The libraries have had a concurrent use limit of 36 seats for some time, but CAS has been […]
HathiTrust April 2013 Update
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization The HathiTrust April 2013 Update is now available. Several important new developments are announced in the newsletter: Service to support access for users with print disabilities at partner institutions Updated, enhanced HathiTrust web presence […]
HathiTrust Services for Users With Print Disabilities
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization In an important new development, HathiTrust now provides a way for the UC campuses to offer full view of some of the in-copyright books in HathiTrust to our print disabled patrons. A designated […]