Category: Discovery & Delivery
PIR Phase II
The vendor response to the CDL’s Request for Purchase (RFP) for a freestanding interlibrary loan “Fulfillment Service” is impressive: Several of the top library software development companies intend to submit bids and are interested in working with UC. The software […]
PIR, the RFP Process, Mary Heath, UC Davis
The CDL has issued a Request for Purchase (RFP) for the supply of a freestanding interlibrary loan “Fulfillment Service”. This application is the second piece in the CDL Request functionality — the first having been the collaboratively developed Resolution Service […]
Bibliographers Listserv
The CDL has created the libchair-l@ucop.edu listserv for the Chairs of Bibliographer and Library Subject Groups. This will be an “open” list, so non-members may send information to it, but its membership is closed to all but the Chairs. This […]
New Name for CDL's MEDLINE PLUS Database
The CDL-hosted database MEDLINE PLUS has been renamed MEDLINE/HealthSTAR. The National Library of Medicine now offers their consumer-based system with the name MEDLINE PLUS. Any direct links to MEDLINE PLUS should be changed to reflect the new name. MEDLINE/HealthSTAR contains […]
TEN Database Removal
As has been discussed with various groups including SOPAG and the User Services Group, the TEN-year Catalog will be removed from both the telnet and web versions of the system. The TEN-year Catalog resides in the same physical database as […]
Melvyl Transition Overview Now Available
With a constantly growing collection of resources, and new and evolving tools to use them, the historical distinction between a monolithic “Melvyl System” and “everything else” is less and less useful to describe UC-shared digital collections. The graphics and location […]
Links to Full Content
In response to several comments from librarians we wish to clarify information about the status and timing of adding links from the CDL Directory to journal titles or from CDL-hosted databases to articles. Although there is some variability depending upon […]
Enhancements to Request/PIR
Thanks to diligent reporting by campus ILL staff, Request has been improved by making a number of refinements and solving various problems. A significant enhancement is that users may now request items from other campuses when the requested items are […]
Options for Linking into the CDL Directory
Creators of web pages have a great deal of flexibility in how they provide access to the CDL Directory from their web sites. While the simplest approach is to create a single link to the CDL Directory’s home page at: […]
Update
Update — also debuting on January 20th — is an automated process that performs specific searches on selected databases every week. The results contain records that have been added to the system in the previous week, so that users continue […]