Tag: resource_change
Licensed Resource Transition: Merck Index Online
By Teri Vogel (UCSD), Merck Index Researouce Liaison Merck Index Online (Tier 1; on the RSC Platform) The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) recently acquired the rights to The Merck Index, one of the standard reference books for information on […]
Licensed Resource Transition: World Bank eLibrary
World Bank eLibrary (Tier 2: UCB, UCI, UCLA, UCM, UCR, UCSD; on the World Bank eLibrary platform) has transitioned to a new platform. http://uclibs.org/PID/129801 The World Bank eLibrary contains the full collection of all World Bank publications and research including: […]
Licensed Resource Platform Change: AIP Scitation
AIP Scitation (All campuses; on the Scitation Platform) A new platform is in place for AIP Scitation, enhancing the online research experience for AIP Publishing and AIP Member Society journals. Developed in conjunction with a leading technology partner, the new […]
Licensed Resources: RAND California Platform Change
RAND California (All campuses; on the RAND platform) http://uclibs.org/PID/8262 RAND California has had a platform change, including a new URL. RAND California is a collection of social science data in fourteen broad areas: Population & Demographics Health & Health Care […]
UC Libraries Discontinue Taylor & Francis Systemwide Journals License
Following a rigorous value assessment, the Libraries on the ten UC campuses and the California Digital Library (CDL) have discontinued their systemwide Taylor & Francis journals license in favor of local campus subscriptions effective January 1, 2013. Three important systemwide principles […]
New Licensed Resource: MIT Press eBooks in Computer Science and Engineering via IEEE Xplore
By Jean McKenzie, UC Berkeley, Resource Liaison Seven campuses now have access to the MIT Press eBooks Library: The Computing & Engineering Collection (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/books.jsp?refinementGroups=3343_4282906416_MITP&pageNumber=1) via IEEE Xplore. UCB, UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCR, UCSC and UCSD participated in this Tier 2 […]
SciVerse Hub is Retiring in August 2013
For those accessing Elsevier via the SciVerse Hub, the SciVerse Hub is being retired as of 24 August 2013. (CDL does not provide a database level record pointing to the SciVerse interface.) In order to ensure a smooth transition, Elsevier […]
SciFinder Moves to Unlimited Access
By Teri Vogel, UCSD, SciFinder Resource Liaison The University of California Libraries now have unlimited access for Chemical Abstracts Service’s (CAS) SciFinder. The libraries have had a concurrent use limit of 36 seats for some time, but CAS has been […]
Licensed Resources: Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) and Periodicals Index Online (PIO) Transitions
The transition of Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) and Periodicals Index Online (PIO) from the Chadwyck-Healey to the ProQuest Platform will be complete when access to Chadwyck-Healey’s version of the databases ends on June 30, 2013. Both versions of the databases […]
Licensed Resource: National Palace Museum Transition
National Palace Museum http://uclibs.org/PID/126960 AIRITI, a Chinese e-content provider of Chinese academic e-journals, is no longer distributing the Tier 2 resource NPM (National Palace Museum), an image archive of treasures at the National Palace Museum in Taiwan. The collection includes […]