Category: Shared Collections
New Licensed Resource: Foundations & Trends – nowPublishers
By Julia Gelfand (UCI), Resource Liaison for nowPublishers The Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced and San Diego campuses are now participating in a Tier 2 package from nowPublishers that releases 31 titles in the Foundations & Trends (FnT) product line […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — August 2013
Folks interested in our online music resources will be pleased to note that SCP sent out 29,313 records for titles in the Naxos Music Library. And because OCLC is now engaged in a concerted effort to catalog the titles in […]
New Licensed Resource: Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)
As an end-of-year acquisition, CDL purchased the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1941-1996, from Readex on behalf of all campuses, with a start date of July 1, 2013. http://uclibs.org/PID/137517 The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Report has been the United […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — July 2013
The significant record distributions for July include the following for journals: Open Access (307 titles), Wiley-Blackwell (45 titles), and JSTOR (33 titles). We had one new monographs package, MIT Press, for which 468 records were sent out. These titles are […]
CDL Welcomes Danielle Watters Westbrook
We are pleased to announce that Danielle Watters Westbrook has joined CDL as our Shared Print Collections Analyst. Danielle will be supporting UC Shared Print and the Western Regional Storage Trust. Danielle brings a unique combination of skills in collection […]
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 […]