Month: December 2006
Retrospective Bibliographic Searching in the Life Sciences
By Beth Weil (UC Berkeley), Web of Science Resource Liaison UC has just obtained access to the Biosis backfile (Biosis Archive) which comprehensively covers the biological sciences literature from 1926-1968. The current Biosis file has covered the data from 1969-present. […]
New Citation Report provides H Index
The latest quarterly software update for Web of Science introduced a new feature called the Citation Report. It captures citation activity and identifies citation trends. The Citation Report enables you to instantly create formatted reports for any General Search (author, […]
XTF Update
CDL announces the latest XTF release: version 1.9. The main feature of the new XTF release is greatly improved documentation. Almost all features are now fully documented, allowing users to take better advantage of the system. Users of XTF version […]
UC Electronic Resources Management System (ERMS) Project Update
The following is a summary of recent ERMS project activities, and plans for the coming months. Ex Libris product manager Ted Koppel visited the CDL in November. As a result of this meeting, CDL is in the process of upgrading […]
Mass Digitization: Open Content Alliance and the UC Libraries
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 […]