Tag: resource_change
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Online is transitioning to the ProQuest search platform
“House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Online” will be hosted exclusively on the ProQuest platform starting March 2016. It is currently hosted on the Chadwyck-Healey platform. UC campuses currently subscribe to the 19th Century (1801-1900) Parliamentary Papers database within the House […]
NewsBank Interface Upgrade
NewsBank recently released interface chances for the Access World News and America’s News Magazines databases — http://uclibs.org/PID/98452. Enhancements include: Searching • More navigators by which the content can be explored • Searches can be refined either before or after conducting […]
Ovid User Interface Enhancements
The OVID interface (UC’s current host platform for the Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins titles) will be undergoing an interface upgrade on September 30, 2015, including changes to Journal Views (Journal Listings View [see below], Journal Title View and Journal Full […]
Informa Healthcare journals moving to the Taylor and Francis platform on September 1st
As of September 1, Informa Healthcare journal content will be hosted on the Taylor and Francis platform. This follows the transfer in management of the Informa Healthcare titles to Taylor and Francis in January 2015. Users should be automatically directed to […]
Readex Interface Enhancements, released August 19
Readex released changes to the Early American Newspapers and Early American Imprints databases on August 19, 2015. These changes affect the local databases only, and do not affect the larger Archive of Americana interface. Changes to these database interfaces include: […]
DNSA is transitioning to the ProQuest search platform September 16th
The Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) will transition from the Chadwyck-Healey platform to the main ProQuest platform on September 16. Both versions of the databases are available in parallel until that date at http://uclibs.org/PID/96899. Please note that users with a […]
ProQuest Updates Platform Interface, August 20th
ProQuest will be rolling out changes to the interface of the main ProQuest platform on August 20, 2015. The ProQuest Congressional interface implemented a similar look and feel on August 5th. The changes are predominantly CSS and display-based (font, color, […]
Alexander Street Press Debuts New Interface for Selected Resources
The Alexander Street platform will be debuting a new interface on Friday August 14. From the vendor’s announcement, the new interface includes: More intuitive search, browse, video, and audio pages to help patrons find content faster Easily accessible instructional videos […]
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online transition to new platform
Three campuses (Berkeley, Irvine, and San Diego) participatie in a Tier 2 license for access to six (Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish; plus Arabic for UCB only) of the Oxford Language Dictionaries Online. The 3 participating campuses have […]
Complete DNSA Collection is Now Available
CDL has reached an agreement for consortial access to the complete collection of the Digital National Security Archive for all ten campuses. DNSA offers access to primary documents from the National Security Archive, and is the most comprehensive collection available […]