Category: Discovery & Delivery
CDL Database Transitions
a. Melvyl-T Public Release On April 23, 2003 CDL rolled out the new Melvyl-T catalog to the public. Compared to the legacy Melvyl catalog – which will continue operating until August 2003 in parallel to the new catalog – Melvyl-T […]
Melvyl-T Catalog is Released
The CDL is very pleased to announce the release of the new Melvyl-T production catalog to UC library staff. The URL for the new web-based version of the catalog is http://melvyl.cdlib.org The telnet address is [telnet://melvyl.cdlib.org]. During this limited release […]
New Services Available
a. New UC-eLinks Services Two new services will be added to the UC-eLinks pop-up window as of March 3, 2003: 1. Need Help? Ask a Librarian 2. Report problems with UC-eLinks From campus IP addresses, users are taken directly to […]
CDL Database Transitions
a.Transition Steering Committee (TSC) Decommissioned The Transition Steering Committee (TSC), which served in an advisory role for the A & I journal article database transition, completed at the end of 2002, had its last conference call on February 25, 2003, […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. Melvyl-T Update As many readers are aware the CDL announced earlier that there would be a rollout of Melvyl-T to library staff in January 2003. On February 5th CDL University Librarian Greenstein sent a message to campus ULs acknowledging […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. A & I Databases Successfully Retired In addition to the public retirement of the CDL-hosted journal article databases, the CDL has successfully removed the CDL-hosted databases from SearchLight and the CDL Directory; removed the data from the relevant disk […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. Update on Gale InfoTrac Services (Frank Gravier, UCSC) Two services planned for Gale InfoTrac databases; including Expanded Academic ASAP, the Computer Database, and the National Newspaper Index have been delayed by the vendor: — Download citations into bibliographic management software […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. A Final Farewell: CDL-Hosted Journal Article Databases This is the last time the CDL will remind staff that the CDL-hosted abstracting and indexing journal article databases will be retired at the end of the year, since this is the […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. Reminder: Eureka Telnet Access to RLG Databases to Retire November 29 A reminder that as of November 30, telnet users will no longer have access to any of the RLG/Eureka databases via Eureka’s telnet or via USE Eureka from […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. A & I Database Transition “Canned” Answers The CDL receives queries and complaints about the new vendor versions of the A & I journal article databases via CDL Feedback or from campus librarians. Jayne Dickson, CDL Information Services Analyst, […]