Category: Discovery & Delivery
Request for Undergraduates Available September 21
On September 21, the Request service will be extended to all UC Undergraduates. Undergraduates may request 5 items per day from the Melvyl Catalog and a combined total of 5 items from all other abstracting and indexing databases (Faculty and […]
Desktop Delivery Task Group (Claire Bellanti, SRLF/UCLA)
In August 2000, the University Librarians appointed a task group to make recommendations on software and hardware for “Desktop Delivery.” UC has defined “desktop delivery” to mean secure web delivery of scanned documents directly to UC faculty, students and staff. […]
Union Catalog RFP Update
As you know, the CDL has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) to determine if the Melvyl Union Catalog and CDL-hosted Databases can be moved from their aging technology infrastructure to a commercial vendor’s system [see CDLINFO February 14, 2000, […]
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 […]