The UC Libraries are supporting a number of innovative open access initiatives in scholarly publishing this year. Luminos (http://www.luminosoa.org/) is the University of California Press’s new OA publishing program for monographs. The project has strong support from UC scholars as […]
A minor edit on the SearchLight search results page will be in place later next week. This change was made based on student focus groups and library staff feedback. The change relates to how users access search results. Before: In […]
“In a single week, we may meet more people than our medieval ancestors did in their entire lives. Yet in contemporary American culture, we have little or no training for all this interaction.” So, how do you avoid feeling like […]
UC campuses now have access to the six Nature Reviews journals listed below. [All UC campuses; on the Nature Publishing platform. SCP has distributed the catalog records.] Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology http://www.nature.com/nrclinonc/index.html Nature Reviews Endocrinology http://www.nature.com/nrendo/index.html Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & […]
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 […]
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 […]
On December 6, 2006, Microsoft released the beta Live Search Books (http://books.live.com), providing a new portal to access UC libraries books scanned by the Internet Archive (IA) for the Open Content Alliance. An initial review of Microsoft’s service was provided […]
a. Planning for the New Melvyl: Good News on the Personal Author Front One of the many features that distinguish Melvyl as a catalog with extraordinarily sophisticated power is that users can look for personal authors and retrieve the pertinent […]