Category: Shared Collections
Springer Journals and Ebook Migrating to New Springer Platform 11/26/12
Springer Journal and Ebook content will be migrating to a new Springer platform effective Monday, November 26. Springer will redirect all users to the new SpringerLink site at this time. The new SpringerLink is faster, easier to use and optimized […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — November 2012
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services The major serial record additions for the past month were to Academic Search Complete (177 titles), Open Access (147 titles), JSTOR (94 titles), and DragonSource (26 titles). For monographs, the major distributions were […]
IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) eBooks
By Julia Gelfand, UC Irvine, Resource Liaison for IET eBooks Several campuses have selected to participate in a Tier 2 for an eBook collection from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). This collection, divided by imprint dates, has a […]
HathiTrust October Update
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization Top HathiTrust news for October includes the announcement (within the Board of Governors), of HathiTrust Executive Committee officers, including UCSD’s Brian Schottlaender as Executive Committee chair, as well as information about funded opportunities for PhD […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — October 2012
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services SCP’s latest annual report (http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/scp/docs/scpannualreport20112012.pdf) is posted on the SCP website. The report contains significant details on our cataloging activities for the 2011/2012 fiscal year — the most significant of these arguably being […]
New Licensed Resource – JSTOR Arts & Sciences XI
UC campuses, except UCSF, now have access to JSTOR XI as part of a CDL consortial license; on the JSTOR platform. JSTOR Arts & Sciences XI will contain at least 125 titles by the end of 2014, with page-image display, searchable […]
New Licensed Resource – ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library (SEDL)
By Julia Gelfand, Resource Liaison and Applied Sciences & Engineering Librarian, UCI Libraries Seven campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Santa Barbara, San Diego) are now participating in a Tier 2 negotiation for the ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital […]
HathiTrust September 2012 Update
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization September’s HathiTrust update includes late breaking news on the decision to dismiss the lawsuit brought by the Authors Guild and others against HathiTrust. Top news items for September include the recent HathiTrust Research […]
Upcoming transition of former RLG resources from OCLC to EBSCOhost
By Holly Eggleston, Electronic Resource Analyst /Resource Liaison Coordinator Following is an update on the status of the migration of many former RLG resources from the OCLC FirstSearch platform to the EBSCOhost platform scheduled for late 2012. As the databases […]
ProQuest Congressional Migration Completed September 21, 2012
ProQuest discontinued its legacy platform and switched over to the new platform exclusively on Friday, 9/21, at which point users were automatically redirected from the old platform URLs to the new platform. Systemwide resources affected included: ProQuest Congressional LexisNexis Congressional […]