Category: Discovery & Delivery
Request Service to Expand to Undergraduates
The Request Service for books from the catalog and articles from CDL-mounted databases will soon also be available to undergraduates. Undergraduates may submit up to 5 requests per day (Faculty and Graduates Students can request up to 20 items a […]
MyLibrary@CDL Prototype Now Available
The Tools and Services Working Group identified the need for a customizing tool to help users manage frequently used information resources in a meaningful way and integrate other personalization services. They issued a call for ideas in December 1999, identifying […]
Reminder: July 19 Release Information
This is a reminder that the tests and mockups for the CDL July 19 Release are available at (http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/july2000/). The following tests will be announced this week: Test versions of links to books and other monographs from BIOSIS, INSPEC and […]
Circulation status information now available for UCB
The Melvyl Catalog now includes the circulation status information for items held by UC Berkeley. You can see the circulation status of a particular item by pressing the (UCB+circ status) link in your record display, or by selecting “UC Berkeley […]
PREMEDLINE Goes Away Next Week
Remember that the Telnet PREMEDLINE database will no longer be available beginning next Monday, December 13. PUBMED, which includes PREMEDLINE content is available via the National Library of Medicine’s free site at [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/].
PsycINFO Database Regeneration Test
Please test the latest regeneration of the PscyINFO database, which makes available new indexes and reduces the number of limits on searches, making more things directly searchable in the database. For example, General Terms (or Topics) is a new index […]
Request for Articles Test Begins
Extending REQUEST to CDL-mounted journal-article databases is planned to debut with the January 2000 release of the CDL Directory. Testing of the service and its interface by PIR liaisons will commence this week. Outreach materials, which can be adapted to […]
Reminder: PREMEDLINE Going Away December 1, 1999
Remember that the Telnet PREMEDLINE database will not be available after December 1 of this year. PUBMED, which includes PREMEDLINE content is available via the National Library of Medicine’s free site at [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed
BIOSIS Regeneration is Complete
The regeneration of BIOSIS Previews for 1993 to the present inaugurates a very different database from the one with which users are familiar. In both Telnet and Web interfaces, there are new indexes and publication types, and some of the […]
CDL OPAC Request For Proposal Steering Committee
The CDL Technical Architecture and Standards Workgroup is charged with creating a technical plan and unifying structure for the components of the CDL. One of the tasks of the workgroup is to review legacy CDL systems and to determine how […]