Category: Newsletter
Directory of CDL-Licensed Content to Retire
The Directory of CDL-Licensed Content will be retired October 31, 2005. Background Information in the Directory of CDL-Licensed Content is currently being replicated in several places: in campus lists of electronic resources; in the UC-eLinks (SFX) A-Z lists (available currently […]
New Resource Available
a. Merck Index Online By Marion Peters, UCLA The recently licensed Merck Index Online (uclibs.org/PID/61961), an encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals, joins a suite of online databases available at all UC campuses that offer access to chemical literature. Version […]
Melvyl Catalog Newsletter: Two New Issues
Two new issues of the Melvyl Matters newletter are now available, reporting on the good, the bad, and the ugly issues that arose in the recent Melvyl Catalog library staff satisfaction survey.
Library Staff News
a. Beverlee French Will Retire March 18 After a distinguished career spanning nearly 32 years of sterling service to UC, the CDL’s founding Director of Shared Content, Beverlee French, has decided it is time to begin a new chapter in […]
Google Scholar Update: Developments Related to UC-eLinks and the Metasearch Project
Google Scholar has the potential to attract our users with its ease, speed, and relevance-ranking using cited references. Although it is still in a beta phase, it has already had a profound effect upon our world. Two recent developments related […]
New Web Page: "Information Literacy: What the UC Libraries Are Doing"
A new web page, “Information Literacy: What the UC Libraries are Doing” is now available at http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/infolit/. The purpose of the site is to link to information literacy resources, to provide an overview of information literacy activities on UC campuses, […]
Counting California: New Datasets
As a result of collaboration with Berkeley’s UC data staff, Ilona Einowski and Fred Gey, Counting California now has two new datasets: Census of Population and Housing, 1980 [California] Summary Tape File 3 Census 1980 Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) The […]
UC Libraries Digital Preservation Repository Pilot Released
After months of innovative and collaborative work, we are pleased to announce the pilot release of the UC Libraries Digital Preservation Repository (DPR). The DPR is a set of services that support the long-term retention of digital objects for the […]
H. W. Wilson Upgrades Its Interface and Improves Features
By Susan Moon (Resource Liaison), UC Santa Barbara The H. W. Wilson Company has released an improved interface with upgrades to a number of features. The first change is in the section where the user chooses the database or databases […]
Vendor Interface Changes
Many vendors of CDL-licensed resources have changed or will be changing their interfaces in the near future. (Note that these are not changes in vendors, but simply changes in the interfaces of our current vendors.) A list of the interface […]