Category: Discovery & Delivery
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 […]
Request (aka "PIR")
Library staff are reminded that the Request service debuts on January 20, 1999. Announcements about the opening of the CDL will mention this important collaboratively built service. Sources of information include the PIR Liaisons on each campus and the Request […]
Changed Looks for the Melvyl Catalog and A&I Databases
The graphics currently used for the Melvyl Catalog, California Periodicals Database, and the CDL-hosted abstracting and indexing databases will be updated in January to fit into the new CDL web site graphic design. For example, the CDL logo will appear […]
WorldCat@OCLC Database Available for Testing through the Web Interface
OCLC’s WorldCat Database is now available for testing at http://merlin.ucop.edu/meltst. WorldCat (@OCLC) is the database choice at the bottom of the list. Comments on the test version of the WCAT database should be sent to Lucia Snowhill by FRIDAY, DECEMBER […]