a. GeoRef Vendor Chosen The Transition Steering Committee (TSC) has recommended Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) as the vendor for GeoRef. GeoRef access via CSA will begin July 1, 2001. As with all recommendations, this one comes after the committee members […]
a. ERIC (Telnet) via Stanford No Longer Available Stanford is in the process of restructuring its locally loaded databases. As part of this process, Stanford staff decided to discontinue the local load of the ERIC database as of July 1, […]
a. Change in Transition Steering Committee Roster Now that its initial recommendations have passed to the negotiation stage, the Abstracting and Indexing Database Transition Steering Committee will focus on implementation issues. At the same time, we welcome Margaret Phillips, Electronic […]
a. Melvyl-T Catalog Unveiling Rescheduled For Fall 2002 There is a change in schedule for the debut of the new Melvyl-T catalog. The new schedule is necessary because quality assurance testing is taking longer than anticipated and because several enhancements […]
NOTE: New resources listed below are not yet in the CDL Directory of Collections and Services; they will be added within the next 2 weeks. You can access them directly from the URL provided. A list of recently added content […]
UC’s shared image collections are accessed using Luna Insight. a. Luna Insight Software version 5.1 Released The following are key enhancements to the user interface. A complete list of new features in Insight version 5.1 is available on the Luna […]
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 […]
As part of the 2008 contract renewal for the Blackwell online journals, 213 titles have been added to the CDL's license. These include the titles in Blackwell's 2008 Full Collection model not previously licensed plus 22 recommended titles excluded from the Full Collection.
By Heather Christenson, Mass Digitization Project Manager and CDL HathiTrust Project Manager The HathiTrust has released a January 2010 update. The following are highlights of UC contributions to the HathiTrust, as well as items of special interest to our UC […]
By Jane Lee, CDL Senior Assessment Analyst In the summer of 2010, CDL’s User Experience Design team began investigating the possibility of creating a mobile version of CDL’s newly redesigned website. As part of its design process for creating an […]
