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Web of Science

Web of Science is composed of the three ISI Citation Databases that collectively index more than 8,400 high quality, peer-review journals cover-to-cover, providing users with complete bibliographic data, full-length author abstracts, and cited references from the world’s most influential journals.  […]

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 […]

Evolution of the CDL Directory of Collections and Services

The CDL has received a number of questions over the past few weeks about the process used in developing the CDL Directory of Collections and Services.  We hope that this note helps to answer at least some of your questions.  […]

Shared Collections Survey by Alan Ritch, UCSC

The CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) met on December 8 to review the results of the digital collection development survey distributed during the summer and fall to bibliographers in the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Area Studies.  […]

OCLC’s WorldCat is Available

WorldCat is OCLC’s Online Union Catalog, and contains over 32 million records in all disciplines from approximately 12,000 libraries worldwide.  Citations for books, journals, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, computer files, newspapers, slides, videotapes, etc., are in a […]

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 […]

CDL Opens January 20, 1999 — Features Directory, Update, and Request

Several important new tools for discovery and access will be released along with the opening of the CDL Website (http://www.cdlib.org) on January 20th, 1999. The browsable and searchable Directory of Collections and Services is a core component.  The Directory will […]

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 […]

RLIN Database in Production in the Web Interface

The Research Library Group’s RLIN Bibliographic Database is in production at: http://www.melvyl.ucop.edu/. The RLIN Bibliographic database retrieves citations for books, serials, archives, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, photographs, posters, and computer files, in over 365 languages.  This union […]