Category: Shared Collections
July-August 2010 Vendor Transitions
By Jayne Dickson, CDL Information Services Analyst Does your favorite resource look different? Many of our licensed resources have undergone (or are about to undergo) changes due to interface upgrades or transitions to another publishing platform or vendor platform. The […]
SCP monthly cataloging update (July 2010)
The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) monthly cataloging update for July 2010 is now available at: http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/scp/updates/update2011.html#jul2010
SCP Distribution Statistics for July 2010
The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Distribution Statistics for July 2010 are now available at: http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/scp/updates/scpstats2011.html#jul2010
SCP 2nd quarter cataloging statistics (June 2010)
The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) 2nd quarter cataloging statistics for 2010 are now available at: http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/scp/docs/2010q2.pdf
Four World Bank databases are now freely available
By Jayne Dickson, CDL Information Services Analyst Beginning immediately, four of the World Bank databases that previously were restricted to several campuses as part of the World Bank e-Library license are now freely available. The databases include Africa Development Indicators, […]
UC Continues to Support Open Access Resources
As part of UC’s continuing support of Open Access journals and alternatives to traditional publishing practices, UC campuses are now institutional supporting members of the two resources listed below. arXiv.org The University of California is now an institutional supporting member […]
Nature Publishing Group Price Increases Controversy Continues
The Nature Publishing Group has issued a response to a letter to UC faculty describing inflated price increases for the Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG) 67 journals (including Nature) that UC licenses. CDL Executive Director Laine Farley; Richard Schneider, Associate Professor, […]
Letter to UC Faculty on Nature Publishing Group Subscription Increases
A letter dated June 4, 2010 describing exorbitant subscription increases on the part of the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) for the 67 journals UC licenses (including Nature) was distributed to UC faculty by campus librarians with the support of faculty […]
Immediate Change: Time, Inc. Titles Removed from LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis has informed us that Time Inc. has decided to withdraw its publications from all LexisNexis services, effective immediately. Previously, LexisNexis Academic was restricted to rolling coverage of the most recent 2 years for the titles shown below. As of […]
Ivy Anderson in Print
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published a special issue of Research Library Issues (RLI) on strategies now being deployed to increase the amount of content that is open and available to the research library community, and by extension, […]