Category: Discovery & Delivery
SearchLight: Lights Out!
CDL’s SearchLight, a cross-database, cross-vendor search tool, has allowed users to simultaneously search online catalogs, indexes, electronic journals, electronic texts, reference resources, and more. It was among the first of its kind anywhere when it debuted in January 2000, but […]
Copy and Paste Citation in UC-eLinks Window
UC-eLinks now offers the ability for users to copy and paste a citation and full text link into a course reading list, bibliography, web page, or other application. Five campuses (UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara, and […]
Changes to the Melvyl Catalog
The CDL is pleased to announce several enhancements to the Melvyl® Catalog. These changes to the user interface may have an impact on campus guides, training materials and teaching strategies. 1. After receiving several suggestions, and after careful consideration and […]
Melvyl Catalog Newsletter: Two New Issues
Two new issues of the Melvyl Matters newletter are now available, reporting on the good, the bad, and the ugly issues that arose in the recent Melvyl Catalog library staff satisfaction survey.
Google Scholar Update: Developments Related to UC-eLinks and the Metasearch Project
Google Scholar has the potential to attract our users with its ease, speed, and relevance-ranking using cited references. Although it is still in a beta phase, it has already had a profound effect upon our world. Two recent developments related […]
VDX: Status Update
VDX (Virtual Document eXchange) is UC’s consortial borrowing system for use in interlibrary loan (ILL), based on Fretwell-Downing’s product. The VDX implementation is a large and complex project that has far-reaching implications for all UC library patrons. As such, it […]
2004 Melvyl Catalog Satisfaction Survey Results
A Melvyl Catalog Satisfaction Survey was made available via the web to UC library staff November 2-20, 2004. Its aim was to determine the level of satisfaction of campus library staff for Melvyl, to surface issues of dissatisfaction of which […]
Metasearch Usability
In the Metasearch Infrastructure Project, the CDL is working to create metasearch tools and software that campus libraries can use to craft search portals tailored to specific audiences. The “Core Collection” portal is targeted towards undergraduate students doing research for […]
UC-eLinks: Targets and Titles
The campus libraries are full participants in adding their campus-licensed resources to the UC-eLinks program. Along with the CDL, they have added many new targets (including journal aggregators, library catalogs, full text books, journal publishers and more) and titles in […]
Improvements to Request (Interlibrary Loan) Service: Good News for Mac Users
Thanks to some changes provided by Ex Libris, the producers of the software that underlies the Melvyl Catalog, requesting multiple items at one time is now significantly easier. Users that have a Windows-based PC workstation or a Macintosh using Opera […]