[…] services. The partnership also addresses the challenges of preserving digital materials, efficiently selecting and licensing digital content, and designing friendly online gateways to make this material accessible to the public. Some areas of immediate focus include the California Periodicals Database, […]
The Metasearch Infrastructure Project seeks to develop a robust set of tools for crafting tailored search interfaces to diverse information resources for specific audiences and/or purposes. For additional background information, including previous updates.
Update (The metasearch infrastructure project is no longer active. See: [http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/metasearch/index.html]
[…] links to resources and access information such as passwords and special URLs. In addition, there is a link to an online survey; we re using the survey as a tool for gathering feedback. The survey contains specific questions regarding functionality […]
a. BioOne All campuses plus the Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories now have access to the BioOne collection of journals. Currently forty high-impact bioscience research journals are available and additional publishers and journals will be added over time. […]
a. WorldCat Retires from CDL-hosted Versions December 13, 2001 The CDL-hosted versions of WorldCat-telnet and web will retire December 13, 2001. The CDL repeatedly asked OCLC to extend our versions through the end of UC Berkeley’s finals period, the last […]
a. Article Level Links Now Available for Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals via UC-eLinks Linking to the article, rather than journal level is a significant breakthrough, since CDL licenses over 1,000 Elsevier titles. From a citation in a CSA Database, for example, […]
Next week, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) will put the UC-eLinks icon into operation in its databases; rather than using the text link “UC-eLinks”, as it is currently doing. CDL licensed databases from CSA include the following, and many campuses also […]
Vendors are removing support for older browser versions, e.g., Netscape 4.x. The removal of support for older browser versions may cause problems for UC library users in locales that have not yet moved to the most recent browser versions in […]
The CDL is very pleased to announce the release of the new Melvyl-T production catalog to UC library staff. The URL for the new web-based version of the catalog is http://melvyl.cdlib.org The telnet address is [telnet://melvyl.cdlib.org]. During this limited release […]
The needs assessment has been designed to help the project designers understand current usage patterns and user needs, discover similarities and differences across a variety of audiences, find out which features users find most valuable, and identify any unmet user […]
