All UC campuses; on the Dacheng platform http://uclibs.org/PID/241770

This collection of old journals contains more than 7,000 journal titles and 130,000 issues published in China from the late Qing Dynasty to 1949.  Subject content covered includes, but is not limited to, philosophy, economics, politics, military, literature, history, industry, agriculture, geography and medicine. Well-known titles include The Young Companion (良友), Huang Pu (黃埔), and Wan Guo Gong Bao (萬國公報).   The UC system has only a small number of journals in this database available in print copy in libraries’ collection.

The database can be browsed by journal title, and searched by article title, author, journal title, publishing year and publishing place.  Articles can be downloaded in PDF format.

Following is an update on the status of the migration of many former RLG resources from the OCLC FirstSearch platform to the EBSCOhost platform scheduled for late 2012.

As the databases become available on the EBSCOhost platform, CDL will provide overlap access to both the new and old platforms by redirecting the database persistent identifier (PID) to point to the interim/overlap page. 

Currently, it is expected that the old platform will be retired at the end of 2012, at which time the overlap access pages will also be retired and the CDL Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) staff will redirect the database PIDs to point to the databases on the EBSCOhost platform.

List of affected resources, PIDs, and their projected activation dates:

September

• Anthropology Plus  (http://uclibs.org/PID/34670)
• Anthropological Index – merged into Anthropology Plus
• Anthropological Literature – merged into Anthropology Plus
• FRANCIS (http://uclibs.org/PID/9572)

October

• Chicano Database (http://uclibs.org/PID/9574)

December

• History of Science, Technology and Medicine (http://uclibs.org/PID/9767)
• Index to 19 ^th -Century American Art Periodicals (http://uclibs.org/PID/9571)
• Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies (http://uclibs.org/PID/9568)

Not Migrating

• Heritage of the Printed Book (formerly Hand Press Book Database)

The UC Libraries currently subscribe to Avery Index via ProQuest, so our subscription to Avery is not affected.

CDL will provide overlap access to Anthropology Plus and Francis beginning 10/11/12.  These two databases are currently active and accessible through the Choose Database feature on EBSCOhost; however, they may not appear in alphabetical order in the listing.

Teal Smith (UCM), the Resource Liaison for PsycINFO (on the ProQuest/CSA Illumina platform), has notified CDL that some PsycINFO records are missing journal issue publication dates.   This problem is expected to be resolved by the end of March.   

 From ProQuest technical support: “reported records have been corrected.  All records going forward will contain the year date, and the remaining records will be corrected in the yearly reload which is fast approaching [March].”

 The problem seems to be fairly widespread. Below is a screenshot of some examples.  Teal reports, “I did a sample search for ‘china’ and ranked by relevancy (ranking defaults to the most recent, but the problem was fixed for recent records).  On the first page, 12 of 25 records were missing the date.”

17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers (All campuses.  On the Gale platform.)

http://uclibs.org/PID/181632

The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media available from the British Library. The collection includes more than 1000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period. The collection covers more than 200 years of accounts from newspapers from England, Ireland, Scotland and a handful of papers from British colonies in the Americas and Asia. The original Burney volumes are now in a fragile condition and have been restricted from ordinary reading room use. Up until now, the only access has been through microfilm. This digital collection will put these early newspapers into the hands of scholars and researchers, opening up new areas of study in English history as well as in many other areas.

19^th Century U.S Newspapers  (All campuses.  On the Gale platform.)

http://uclibs.org/PID/181633   

Provides access to primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life, among other subjects.  The majority of the newspapers have never before been accessible online.

Archives Unbound:  Global Missions and Theology  (All campuses. On the Gale platform.)

http://uclibs.org/PID/181631  

This collection documents the broad range of nineteenth century religious missionary activities, practices and thought in the United States by reproducing pivotal personal narratives, organizational records and biographies of the essential leaders, simple missionaries and churches.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences IX (All campuses except UCSF. On the JSTOR platform.)

http://uclibs.org/PID/31860

With a minimum of 150 titles available by the end of 2012, the Arts & Sciences IX Collection widens JSTOR’s coverage in business and the social sciences.  Journals from over 25 countries provide outstanding international diversity, and rare materials bring unique depth to the collection, with research covering archaeology, anthropology, sociology, business, economics, population studies, and political science.  

 Pravda Digital Archive 1912-2009 (All campuses.  On the East View platform.)

http://uclibs.org/PID/181615

Pravda (or “Truth”) was the official voice of Soviet communism and the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1918 and 1991, when Boris Yeltsin signed a decree closing Pravda down.  Founded in 1912 in St. Petersburg, Russia, Pravda originated as an underground, daily workers’ newspaper, and soon became the main newspaper of the revolutionary wing of the Russian socialist movement.

After the collapse of the USSR, nationalist and communist journalists intermittently published a print newspaper and an online newspaper under the name Pravda. Today, Pravda represents the oppositional stance of the Communist Party in the Russian Federation.

Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TTL) Online (All campuses except UCSF. On the de Gruyter platform)

http://uclibs.org/PID/182247 

This is the largest dictionary of the Latin language encompassing the use of Latin from its origin to the 7th century A.D. The entries list every single known occurrence of Latin words together with precise citations. This is a unique and indispensable tool for scholars dealing with any subject that relates to the Latin language. I.e. Classics, History, Literature, Linguistics, French, Italian, Spanish (these languages – among a couple of others – originate from Latin). It is also a tool for even the life and biomedical sciences that use Latin vocabularies. The project that produced the print version of this source started at the end of the 19th century and is still going on; the planned completion will be in 2050.
The online edition of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae is published by De Gruyter and provides access to the contents of all lexicon articles published up to 2008 (that is the letters A–M, O, P–pomifer, porta–pulso), the articles in the Onomasticon volumes (letters C and D), the Index librorum and the Praemonenda de rationibus et usu operis, a multilingual introduction to the printed version of the Thesaurus. The content of TTL online is thus identical to that of the printed version of the Thesaurus. Each year the contents of the newly printed fascicles will be added to the database.

World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean (All campuses except UCSF. On the Gale platform.) http://uclibs.org/PID/181634

This multidisciplinary resource will include a comprehensive range of content for the region, providing research across the humanities, both for current Latin America and the Caribbean and as a historical perspective back through the colonial period.

Elements include:

• A combination of contemporary and historical documents designed to reveal a true depiction of the nature, integrity and culture of Latin America.
• Documents in multiple languages
• Historical and contemporary maps

 - Julia Gelfand (jgelfand@uci.edu), Resource Liaison to T&F Journals

Blackwell Companion to Phonology (All campuses; on the Wiley-Blackwell platform)

http://uclibs.org/PID/175687

The Blackwell Companion to Phonology is a major reference work drawing together 124 new contributions from leading scholars in the field. Led by a team of renowned international scholars, the Companion represents a diverse range of approaches and methodologies to key phenomena in phonological research. In contrast to other handbooks and reference works currently available for phonology, these volumes focus on phenomena and case studies that highlight past and ongoing debates in the field. Interdisciplinary connections, such as those with the social and computational sciences, are covered, as well as statistical and experimental techniques. The Companion will be a touchstone for future phonological theorists, giving an overview of data and insights which any theory of phonology should be able to cover.

Comprehensive Physiology (All campuses; on the Wiley platform)

http://uclibs.org/PID/176285

The most wide-ranging and authoritative collection of review content ever assembled in the physiological sciences. Comprehensive Physiology includes the landmark series Handbook of Physiology, available for the first time in an online format. This seminal series will be continually updated and expanded to capture the current science of physiology for a twenty-first-century readership.

Oxford History of Western Music (All campuses; on the Oxford platform)

http://uclibs.org/PID/176230

The acclaimed Oxford History of Western Music offers an unmatched narrative account of the evolution of Western classical music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin. This landmark study has received universal acclaim and major awards in the field, and it is now being offered for the first time in an interactive digital format.

• Includes the full text from The Oxford History of Western Music (OUP 2009) with notes, bibliographies and further readings for all 69 chapters
• 500 illustrations, 1,800 musical examples & index from the 2009 print edition
• More than 1,700 editorially-selected links to relevant entries in Grove Music Online
• Sophisticated search and browse options for easy navigation of the text, and the original pagination from the 2009 edition is retained to aid location of references
• Printer-friendly format
• Export citations automatically to ProCite™, EndNote™, Reference Manager™, RefWorks™, and Zotero™
• DOIs (and static URLs)

Springer Protocols (1980-2011) (All campuses; on the Springer platform)

http://www.springerprotocols.com/index.vm (Cataloged at the title level)

SpringerProtocols is the largest subscription-based electronic database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences. Compiling protocols from Humana’s successful book series Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Molecular Medicine, Methods in Biotechnology, Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Neuromethods, as well as from a vast number of Laboratory Handbooks, such as The Biomethods Handbook, The Proteomics Handbook, and the Springer Laboratory Manuals, SpringerProtocols offers researchers access to nearly thirty years worth of time tested, easily reproducible, step-by-step protocols for immediate use in their lab. Written by renowned experts in the field with an emphasis on both comprehensiveness and ease of use, each protocol is organized in an easily reproducible recipe style, and offering helpful tricks of the trade in an invaluable “notes” section, SpringerProtocols is an invaluable resource for the modern research laboratory. All SpringerProtocols are written by experts in the field identified and reviewed by distinguished editors in their specific subject areas. Prior to publication each protocol is reviewed for clarity, accuracy, and consistency by the subject editor, a member of our prestigious editorial board, and Springer’s in-house editorial staff. 

CDL purchased the SpringerProtocols Archive (1980-2010) and 2011 content for all ten campuses.  Seven campuses will continue their subscription in 2012 (Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, Merced, Irvine, San Diego, and San Francisco).

Wiley Online Library Ebook Collection (2011 frontlist only) (All campuses; on the Wiley platform)

http://wileyonlinelibrary.com (New titles cataloged monthly)

With approval from all UC campuses, CDL licensed the Wiley Online Library Ebook Collection which includes 950 books with a 2011 publication date.  The Wiley ebook license comes with broad and favorable rights for scientific, scholarly and educational uses.  The collection will serve a wide range of research needs in the life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.  The Wiley ebooks will complement another large ebook collection from Springer that campuses licensed in 2009.  Exclusions to the Wiley collection are textbooks, major reference works, professional and trade titles and consumer books.   The 2011 books will be added to the collection throughout the year as they are published simultaneously in both online and print.

UC campuses now have access to these electronic resources as part of CDL consortial or Tier 2 licenses.  (Some campuses may already have had access to these titles through previous local campus subscriptions.):

Bibliography of British and Irish History (All campuses except Santa Cruz, on the Brepolis platform; http://uclibs.org/PID/162567)

Lists books, articles in books, articles in some 700 journals; covers historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available – from 55BC to the present. It is the successor to the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History, available online from 2002 to 2009. To access database, click on Enter databases, then click on Bibliography of British and Irish History.

Duxiu Knowledge Search Database (Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Diego, on the Duxiu platform; http://uclibs.org/PID/156553)

The Duxiu database provides access to more than 3 million Chinese bibliographic entries and 2 million full text scholarly resources in all subjects and formats, such as books, journal articles, conference papers and video clips. Duxiu covers Chinese publications from the early the 1930s to the present. New contents are added monthly. End users receive contents through online requests. Contents are delivered electronically to end users’ specified email account within 2 hours. Please note that depending upon different publications’ copyright restrictions, not all resources found in Duxiu have the same level of content access. For instance, the preview of chapters, table of contents and contents may vary from title to title.

Morgan and Claypool Collection 3 & 4 (Adding Santa Cruz to Collection 3; Collection 4: Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Cruz on the Synthesis platform; http://uclibs.org/PID/126818)

A collection of over 475 ebooks, 50- to 100-pages long, in the form of “lectures” that each synthesize an important research or development topic, authored by a prominent contributor to the field. They are ideal entry points to new areas for researchers, advanced developers, and students.

• Collection 3 — 125 new lectures published late 2009 through 2010
• Collection 4 — 125 new lectures to begin delivery in January, 2011

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 to the preservation, organization and dissemination of Tibetan literature. Includes digital Tibetan texts; searchable database of people, places, and teachings.

Does your favorite resource look different?  Many of our licensed resources have undergone (or are about to undergo) changes due to interface upgrades or transitions to another publishing platform or vendor platform. 

The following resources have either already changed or are about to change.  Please note the upcoming changes to EBSCOhost, scheduled for August 4^th, and to the Wiley Online Library, scheduled for August 7-8^th, as these two platforms represent a number of licensed resources.

July 1, 2010 — EconLit (Transition from OvidSP to ProQuest/CSA Illumina)
http://uclibs.org/PID/9525

EconLit (formerly on OvidSP) moved to ProQuest/CSA on July 1, 2010.  This change was made because UC bibliographers decided that the CSA Illumina platform was better suited to the EconLit content and provided superior searching and display features.  Further information on this resource is available from the EconLit Resource Liaison, Jim Church (jchurch@library.berkeley.edu).

July 1, 2010 — FIAF (Transition from OvidSP to ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey)
http://uclibs.org/PID/105490

FIAF (formerly on OvidSP) moved to ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey on July 1, 2010.  This change was made because UC bibliographers decided that the Chadwyck-Healey interface was an improvement over previous interface functionality.  Further information on this resource is available from the FIAF Resource Liaison, Gary Handman (ghandman@library.berkeley.edu).

July 1, 2010 — World Bank Databases (Interface switch from licensed version to Open Access)

As of July 1^st, four of the World Bank databases that previously were restricted to several campuses as part of the World Bank e-Library license are now freely available. The databases include Africa Development Indicators, Global Development Finance, World Development Indicators (WDI), and World Bank Worldwide Development Indicators.  The PIDs for these resources have already been updated to go to the new URLs. 

July 26 (week of) 2010 — New England Journal of Medicine [NEJM] (Transition to new publishing platform/Interface upgrade)

During the week of July 26^th, the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM.org) will launch its new website hosted on the Atypon publishing platform (http://www.atypon.com/).  Automatic redirects to the new platform will be in place.  Some of new features include:

• Enhanced page design and navigation
• Personalized My NEJM account
• Specialty Pages
• New search tools
• Archives back to 1812
• Intuitive article format

Further information on this resource is available from the NEJM Resource Liaison, Judy Bube (jlbube@uci.edu).

End of July 2010 — Economist Intelligence Unit [EIU] (Interface upgrade)

At the end of July (date TBA), EIU databases will be restructured to improve and simplify searching.   Some of the new features include:

• A new homepage featuring “My countries” and “My reports” dropdown menus
• New country pages will include snippets of the latest analysis; ratings, rankings and key indicators provide an immediate visual snapshot for each country
• Quicker navigation across topics covered in different reports
• The new article page will include immediate access to other pieces of content within the same sub-category
• The size of text on screen will be easily adjustable for more comfortable viewing

The EIU database URLs will not change with this interface upgrade and no campus actions are required for implementation.

August 2, 2010 — OVID/SP (LWW) (Interface upgrade)

Interface enhancements coming at the beginning of August 2010 include:

• New Work Productivity Tools
  New search filters, a “widget” approach to results management, and numerous new citation management options, and more.
• My Workspace
  Create work projects and organize all of your research materials — individual articles, search strategies, images, and more — into a dedicated area.
• Ovid Toolbar
  This downloadable tool lets you quickly and easily save critical research material to My Workspace while you’re working outside OvidSP. 
• Additional Interface Display Enhancements
  A new main search page design for more effective search and browse navigation, “drag-and-drop” customization features, consolidation of features and pages, and more.

 The Ovid/SP URLs will not change with this interface upgrade and no campus actions are required for implementation.  Further information is available from the Journals@Ovid LWW Resource Liaison, Rikke Ogawa (rikke.ogawa@library.ucla.edu).

August 4, 2010 — EBSCOhost (Interface upgrade)

Information about the interface changes is available at http://support.ebsco.com/support_news/detail.php?id=610&page=1.

 The EBSCOhost database URLs will not change with this interface upgrade and no campus actions are required for implementation.  For questions about these resources, please contact the appropriate Resource Liaison. The list of assigned Resource Liaisons is available at http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/rl/roster.html.

August 7, 2010 — LexisNexis Academic (Interface upgrade)

Interface enhancements coming at the beginning of August 2010 include:

The navigation system has been transformed so that all options are presented in a single menu at the left of the screen. Clicking on heading such as “News” or “US Legal” will cause the section below it to expand and reveal navigation options.

 The most dramatic change is the home page for LexisNexis Academic, the Easy Search form. It has been redesigned to provide quick access to the most commonly used content. Follow the link below for information on the changes to this form.

• Academic Help: Easy Search

The LexisNexis Academic URLs will not change with this interface upgrade and no campus actions are required for implementation.  Further information on this resource is available is available from the LexisNexis Academic Resource Liaison, Harold Colson (hcolson@ucsd.edu).

August 7 (week of) 2010 – SpringerLink (Interface upgrade)

Interface enhancements coming at the beginning of August 2010 include:

• Related documents for articles
• PDF Preview for eBook chapters
• Enhanced browsing features
• Viewable abstracts without leaving search results
• Improved search functionality – including searching by citation
• Easy filters for Online first and Open access articles

 The SpringerLink URLs will not change with this interface upgrade and no campus actions are required for implementation.  Further information on this resource is available is available from the Springer Resource Liaison, Karl Kocher (kakocher@ucdavis.edu).

August 8, 2010 — Wiley Online Library (Transition combining Wiley InterScience & former Blackwell Publishers content on a single platform)

Information about the interface changes is available at http://info.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/view/0/faqs.html.

Wiley InterScience will be unavailable beginning Saturday, August 7^th at 1:00 AM PDT.  The new Wiley Online Library will go live on Sunday, August 8^th at 9:00 AM PDT.

 Although this transition requires changes to the existing resource URLs, re-directs will be in place and all content should be available once the downtime has been completed and the new site launched.  Theoretically, this transition should be invisible to UC users. 

 For questions about these resources, please contact the appropriate Resource Liaison. The list of assigned Resource Liaisons is available at http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/rl/roster.html.

August 2010 — AccessEngineering (Interface upgrade)

AccessEngineering 2.0 will feature a number of customer-requested enhancements including:

• A new user interface offering a streamlined, easy-to-navigate design and superior functionality
• The addition of a new subject category: Software Engineering
• Multimedia resources are being added to include instructor ancillaries, PowerPoint presentations, videos, podcasts, and more
• Articles from McGraw-Hill’s Engineering News-Record (ENR) covering Environment, Water, Power, and Infrastructure; new articles will be posted weekly, and approximately 500 articles will be archived and available immediately
• An Image Bank of four-color images, which will be updated monthly
• Full author biographies
• The complete contents of the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Science and Technology, offering more than 50,000 terms

The AccessEngineering URLs will not change with this interface upgrade and no campus actions are required for implementation.  Further information on this resource is available is available from the AccessEngineering Resource Liaison, Dave Schmitt (dschmitt@ucsd.edu).

arXiv.org  The University of California is now an institutional supporting member of arXiv, an open-access database to e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.  For more information, see the arXiv.org Support FAQ.

 Nucleic Acids Research http://nar.oxfordjournals.org  Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) publishes the results of leading edge research into physical, chemical, biochemical and biological aspects of nucleic acids and proteins involved in nucleic acid metabolism and/or interactions. It enables the rapid publication of papers under the following categories: Chemistry and synthetic biology; Computational biology; Gene regulation, chromatin and epigenetics; Genome integrity, repair and replication; Genomics; Molecular biology; Nucleic acid enzymes; RNA and Structural biology. A Survey and Summary section provides a format for brief reviews. The first issue of each year is devoted to biological databases, and an issue in July is devoted to papers describing web-based software resources of value to the biological community.

Oxford University Press and the Editors of Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) launched an Open Access initiative for NAR in 2005. This means that it is no longer necessary to hold a subscription in order to read current NAR content online.  The UC Libraries have an Institutional Membership of NAR.

A 2010 institutional membership provides discounted publication charges (50% discount) for Corresponding authors based at the member institution.  Additionally, institutional memberships help to underwrite the publication charges for author’s from institutions in developing countries.  For more information, see NAR’s Open Access Initiative.

CDL is pleased to announce the following resource liaison assignments within the Resource Liaisons (RL) program. Resource Liaisons provide a crucial link between the UC system and our licensed resource vendors, as well as providing a link between CDL and the campuses. Resource Liaisons serve as the primary conduit to communicate resource issues to vendors and CDL, as well as offering expertise and assistance for activities during the resource’s lifecycle. Some Resource Liaisons are responsible for several databases on the same platform.

Business Source Complete – Tony Lin, UC Irvine
Literature Resource Center – Frank Gravier, UC Santa Cruz
MD Consult Core Collection – Bob Johnson, UC Irvine
MICROMEDEX Healthcare Series – Sue McGuinness, UC San Diego
New England Journal of Medicine – Judy Bube, UC Irvine
NTRL: National Technical Reports Library – Lisa Ngo, UC Berkeley
RAND California – Harrison Decker, UC Berkeley

We thank the Resource Liaisons themselves, as well as the campus libraries that are contributing staff to this important program.

To learn more about the Resource Liaisons program, please see http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/rl/.