Category: Discovery & Delivery
The Statewide Serials Database
The Statewide Serials Database, the outcome of the California State Serials Project (CSSP), establishes a union database of serials for California libraries. It has been loaded into the Melvyl system and is now the Periodicals database. It includes: California State […]
Patron Initiated Requesting
As recommended by the University Librarians and the Library Planning and Action Initiative Task Force, the University of California Libraries are implementing Patron Initiated Requesting (PIR) to facilitate rapid access to physical materials on all campuses and in the regional […]
OCLC’s SocAbstracts Database Available from the Melvyl Web System
OCLC’s SocAbstracts database, previously available to UC users only through the Telnet version of the Melvyl system, is now available via the web interface as well. Produced by Sociological Abstracts, the database contains citations from 1963 to the present for […]
Updates on the Melvyl System and Abstracting and Indexing Databases
Updates and news on the Melvyl system and abstracting and indexing databases will now appear in this listserv on a regular basis. The CDL will also continue to send announcements to relevant library groups such as the User Services Group […]
Current Melvyl Web System Link Will Be Retained
The current Melvyl web system URL will continue to be valid for the foreseeable future; campus libraries and users will not need to change campus links or individual bookmarks. In our last issue, we mentioned that the CDL would replace […]
ACM Digital Library Available from the Melvyl Web System
The ACM Digital Library, produced by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), is now available to UC users via the Melvyl web system from the Electronic Journals page. Users can also view the full text of many journal articles via […]
List of Electronic Journal Collections Available via the Melvyl Web System
To facilitate access to the full text of journals from targeted publishers, links have been added to citations in Melvyl abstracting and indexing databases. Using these links, users can go directly from a citation of interest to the full text […]