Skip to main content

Tag: resource_change

Oxford Reference Online: Updated Interface & Functionality

By Holly Eggleston, Electronic Resource Analyst /Resource Liaison Coordinator Oxford Reference Online (ORO) has updated its platform interface and functionality beginning immediately. The new platform is now available at the current URL: www.oxfordreference.com.  A link to the old interface is […]

ECS Journals Transition to New Platform

The Electrochemical Society (ECS) Journals are now available on the HighWire Press platform.  They have transitioned from the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Scitation platform, which is discontinuing its hosting services for ECS and selected other society publishers.  

SPIE Digital Library moves to a new platform

By Jean McKenzie, UC Berkeley Engineering Library,  Resource Liaison for SPIE The SPIE Digital Library (SPIEDL) moved to Silverchair Information Systems platform SCM6 on August 22, 2012.  SPIEDL has an updated look, improved functionality, and more content. 40,000 additional articles […]

ProQuest Databases Transitioning to New Platform on August 8th

Many licensed ProQuest databases (including databases from CSA and Chadwyck-Healey) will transition to the new ProQuest platform on Wednesday, August 8.   A full list of the transitioning systemwide-licensed databases with their PIDs is available at: http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/rl/docs/transitions/ProQuest_Systemwide_Database_Transition.doc. Note:  Your campus may […]

New and Upgraded Licensed Content: AGU Digital Library Books; Congressional Hearings; NNCO; Times Digital Archive

AGU Digital Library Books (All campuses; on the AGU platform) (http://uclibs.org/PID/240973) This is a one-time CDL purchase.  Perpetual rights for 400 titles, pre-2008 through 2012 of more than 50 years of Earth and space sciences research from AGU’s preeminent books. […]

ProQuest New Platform to be Available; New ProQuest Training Materials

The new and current platforms of CDL-licensed ProQuest databases will run in parallel, beginning the week of May 6.  ProQuest currently encompasses resources on the ProQuest, CSA and Chadwyck-Healy (ChH) platforms, as well as related products such as Lexis-Nexis Congressional […]

New Licensed Resource – TBRC Core Collections Tranches 8 and 9

UC campuses now have access to the remaining sections of this electronic resource as part of a Tier 2 license: Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC) Digital Library (All campuses, on the TBRC platform)http://uclibs.org/PID/159590 The Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center is dedicated […]

Ergonomics Abstracts New Platform

Ergonomics Abstracts (Systemwide access) has transitioned from Taylor & Francis to the EBSCOhost platform. (http://uclibs.org/PID/126493)

Licensed Database Transitions 2012: bepress/De Gruyter, Project Muse, Wilson/EBSCO, ProQuest

Several CDL and campus licensed databases will be transitioning to new platforms in the new year.  Below are several of the upcoming changes: The academic publisher De Gruyter is acquiring the Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) portfolio of 67 journals in […]

New Custom URL for PubMed

Recently, it came to our attention that PubMed had changed its URL, which subsequently changed the custom URL used by the UC campuses. PubMed’s custom URL includes specific components (tool & otool) that allow the interface to incorporate linking and […]