Category: Shared Collections
New Licensed Resources – Asahi Kikuzo II Visual; People’s Daily
UC campuses now have access to these electronic resources as part of CDL consortial or Tier 2 licenses. (Some campuses may already have had access to these titles through previous local campus subscriptions.): Asahi Kikuzo II Visual, Premium Value Pack […]
Licensed Resource Change: Alternative Press Index & Archive
Alternative Press Index and Archive are moving to a new vendor. Alternative Press Index http://uclibs.org/PID/7399 Alternative Press Index Archive http://uclibs.org/PID/49179 As announced last spring (http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/questions/), EBSCO has acquired the rights to license several OCLC FirstSearch databases, including Alternative Press Index […]
STAT-USA Ceased Operation on October 1st
By Jayne Dickson, CDL Information Services Analyst The STAT-USA/Internet website ceased operation on October 1, 2010. STAT-USA focused on providing international trade information and U.S. economic statistics. The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) will be de-activating the PID for this resource […]
Access to Landolt-Börnstein Content Changes on November 1st
By Jayne Dickson, CDL Information Services Analyst Previously, UC had licensed the Landolt-Börnstein content (data collection in all areas of physical sciences and engineering) from Springer-Verlag. At the beginning of 2010, Springer introduced a new database (SpringerMaterials: The Landolt-Börnstein Database) […]
UC Libraries Digitize 3,000,000 Books
The Mass Digitization team at CDL is proud to announce that the 3,000,000th volume has been digitized from the collections of the University of California libraries! Reaching this milestone has involved the work of many dedicated people across the UC […]
New Licensed Resources – BBIH, Duxiu, Morgan & Claypool, TBRC
By Ellen Meltzer, Information Services Manager UC campuses now have access to these electronic resources as part of CDL consortial or Tier 2 licenses. (Some campuses may already have had access to these titles through previous local campus subscriptions.): Bibliography […]
UC Libraries eBook Survey
By Jacqueline Wilson, CDL Senior Associate for Shared Content University of California Libraries Academic eBook Reader Survey – Monday, October 11 through Monday, October 25, 2010 The UC Libraries charged the Springer eBook Task Force to create a survey to […]
Springer eBook Shared Cataloging Update
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Shared Cataloging Program As a general rule, the UC Shared Cataloging Program located at San Diego, is now keeping current cataloging 2010 English language Springer eBook titles as they get posted at the SpringerLink site. Our ability […]
End-of-Year Funds Provide New Resources
By Wendy Parfrey, CDL Shared Content Coordinator CDL and a number of campuses were able to make significant purchases for perpetual rights on behalf of all UC campuses with end-of-year funds in 2010. The acquisitions cover many important resources across […]
The Story of the Digital Book [Video]
>Millions of books from the UC Libraries have been digitized, but how? Go behind the scenes to learn about the UC Libraries’ digitization process and see several ways you can use these newly digital books. “The Story of the Digital […]