CDL recently hosted a webinar series for Users Council that’s now widely available to UC staff.  (The CDL’s Users Council is a group responsible for communicating information between the CDL and the campuses concerning use of CDL tools, services and collections.  Users Council consists of a liaison from each UC campus, including LBNL, LLNL and the Regional Library Facilities.  A CDL representative is an ex officio member. ) 

The topics covered were chosen through a member survey, with survey expertise provided by CDL’s Senior Assessment Analyst Jane Lee. 

This year there were six lively sessions covering the following ground:

• Melvyl: A Snapshot of Issues, Patricia Martin, Director, Discovery & Delivery and Lena Zentall, Project Manager, Discovery & Delivery
• Services Today & Tomorrow, Laine Farley, Executive Director, CDL
• What’s Happening in Collections: 15 Triumphs in 30 Minutes, Wendy Parfrey, Shared Content Coordinator
• User Experience Design and CDL, Rachael Hu, User Experience Design Manager
• eScholarship: Supporting OA Scholarly Communication at UC, Catherine Mitchell, Director, Access& Publishing; Justin Gonder, eScholarship Product Manager; and Katie Fortney, Copyright Policy & Education Officer
• HathiTrust and Mass Digitization, Heather Christenson, Mass Digitization Project Manager

Each of the one-hour recordings, along with PowerPoint slides, is available for your viewing at:   http://www.cdlib.org/groups/users_council/

(The presentations are password protected because some of the information is not for public consumption.)

The new databases include:

• JSTOR/Ithaka Arts & Sciences I
• JSTOR/Ithaka Arts & Sciences II
• JSTOR/Ithaka Arts & Sciences III
• JSTOR/Ithaka Arts & Sciences IV
• JSTOR/Ithaka Arts & Sciences V
• JSTOR/Ithaka Arts & Sciences VII
• JSTOR/Ithaka Arts & Sciences VIII
• JSTOR/Ithaka Business II
• JSTOR/Ithaka Life Sciences
• Taylor and Francis Journals
• The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers ASABE Technical Library
• U.S. Government Printing Office GPO Monthly Catalog

The following FirstSearch databases, which are migrating to EBSCO, will be removed from the Central Index:

• Anthropology Plus
• FRANCIS
• Chicano

The next round of new resources will be included in early summer.

As a result of the assessment and further follow-up, investigation, and discussion, decisions were made that are now ready to be implemented immediately.

View Now

It was recommended that View Now be turned on only for the HathiTrust materials. This is because we know users will be successful in going directly to the full text item on the HathiTrust platform in almost all instances when the HathiTrust item is in the public domain.

In further discussions, HOPS requested that the “.gov/.edu” sites also be turned on. CDL did additional testing and determined that in a vast majority of cases, these items were also successful in resolving to full text, so we will be turning on .gov/.edu items as well as HathiTrust items.

Other services examined in pre-testing and testing (Internet Archive/Project Gutenberg and the WorldCat Digital Gateway) will not have the View Now feature turned on at this time because the path to retrieving these items results in a negative user experience. 

Central Index

The report recommended turning on the Central Index feature, which is maintained by CDL. We have developed the following guidelines for managing the service:

1. CDL will turn on databases in the Central Index that are subscribed by all 10 UC campuses. This makes it workable to keep the databases in sync and results in a minimum of confusion for users. If one campus pulls out of a 10-campus license, CDL will remove that content from the Central Index for all campuses. We will notify the campuses if this occurs.
2. CDL will add databases to the Central Index (those which OCLC has added in the previous six months) two times each year: in June/July and December/January. CDL will use the master list in OCLC’s service configuration tool because it indicates when resources are actually activated, as opposed to OCLC’s spreadsheet, which includes pre-activation information. CDL does not have control of some content that OCLC adds to or deletes from the Central Index. CDL also does not control when a change in vendors causes additions or deletions to the Central Index.
3. CDL will not provide access to databases that are available only via Z39.50 because this method negatively impacts performance and the user experience. 

What’s next?

As a result of the View Now and Central Index assessment report, thirteen new resources will be activated this summer. These include:

• Alexander Street Press, Civil War Letters and Diaries
• Alexander Street Press, Latino Literature
• Alexander Street Press, North American Women’s Letters and Diaries
• Alexander Street Press, Sixties Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974
• Alexander Street Press Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
• Cambridge University Press Historical Statistics of the United States
• Institute of Physics eJournals and Archive
• OECD iLibrary
• Oxford University Press Oxford Art Online
• Oxford University Press Oxford Music Online
• ProQuest Gerritsen Collection of Women’s History, 1543-1945
• Royal Society of Chemistry journals
• S. Karger journals

Note:  In the case of journal packages where the UC Libraries do not subscribe to the complete title list of the resource, all of the journal titles may appear in a result set.  Users will discover that the full text is not available when the UC-eLinks menu does not display a full text link or when the WCL full text link in the detailed record leads only to an abstract page.

Some journal packages in WorldCat Local (WCL) are part of the Central Index and are activated by UC, such as Institute of Physics eJournals and Archive, the Royal Society of Chemistry journals and the S. Karger journals, and these will appear in the faceted database list with all the Central  Index databases.  Other journal packages are under the control of OCLC, such as Elsevier and Springer, and these do not appear in the faceted database list.

CDL will monitor the feedbacks and if this decision appears to create problems for users, we will reevaluate it.

What will be removed?

Several OCLC databases (previously hosted by RLG) are moving to the vendor EBSCO. As a result, their content will be deleted from the Central Index because they will now only be available via Z39.50. The list includes:

• Anthropological Index
• Anthropological Literature
• Anthropology Plus
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
• Chicano Database
• FRANCIS
• Index to 19^th-Century American Art Periodicals
• Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies

Stay tuned

CDL will continue to scan the environment and review these decisions on a regular basis.  We thank all of those involved in the initial testing, assessment with users, and follow-up processes that have led to our moving forward with what we hope will be positive results for our users.

Emailing of Search Results Problem

The problem of emailing an item from the detailed search results page to an email address has been resolved. In the past, this feature was becoming unreliable where search results selected for emailing would not arrive to the intended email address provided. This problem has been fixed.

General Performance Enhancements

 In addition, several performance enhancements were introduced. These improvements are primarily ‘behind the scenes’ but overall, users should see improved response times for displaying search results and the loading of web pages in general.

http://uclibs.org/PID/240973

This is a one-time CDL purchase.  Perpetual rights for 400 titles, pre-2008 through 2012 of more than 50 years of Earth and space sciences research from AGU’s preeminent books. Access to research from 1956 through 2008 provides a rich historical foundation for current work across the Geosciences.

• Includes 17 AGU book series
• Includes 580 book titles, with nearly 9500 book chapters

Congressional Hearings, Part A – Unpublished Hearings (All campuses; on the ProQuest platform)

CDL one-time purchase of supplemental material for Lexis-Nexis (now ProQuest) Congressional Hearings, Part A.

ProQuest House Unpublished Hearings Digital Collection includes full transcripts of previously unpublished proceedings from 1973-1979, including all oral statements, committee questions, and discussion. Also included are the texts of related reports, statistical analyses, correspondence, exhibits, and articles presented by witnesses or inserted into the record by committee members and staff. This material has never been published by the Government Printing Office and is not part of the depository library program.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) Parts 1-4 (All campuses; on the Gale Cenage platform)

http://uclibs.org/PID/240974

CDL one-time purchase of first four modules.

1. Nineteenth Century Collections Online Archive 1: British Politics and Society includes tens of   thousands of primary sources related to the political climate in Great Britain during the “long” nineteenth century. Invaluable for historical scholarship, the archive includes a range of rare works that offer new avenues for research.

2. Nineteenth Century Collections Online Archive 2: Asia & West Diplomacy & Cultural Exchange features a range of primary source collections related to international relations between Asian countries and the West during the 19th century. These invaluable documents – many never before available – include government reports, diplomatic correspondence, periodicals, newspapers, treaties, trade agreements, NGO papers, and more, offering a detailed look at the inner workings of international relations

3. Nineteenth Century Collections Online Archive 3: British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture features a wide range of primary sources related to the arts in the Victorian era, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores. These rare documents, many of them never before available, were sourced from the British Library and other renowned institutions, and curated by experts in British arts history. Covering more than a century, British Theatre, Music, and Literature is without equal as a resource for 19th century scholars.

4. Nineteenth Century Collections Online Archive 4: Corvey Collection of European Literature includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library of Victor Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was one of the most spectacular discoveries of the late 1970s. The Corvey Collection comprises one of the most important collections of Romantic era writing in existence anywhere – including fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry and more – with a focus on especially difficult-to-find works by lesser-known, historically neglected writers.

Times Digital Archive (TDA) Upgrade (1986-2006) (All campuses; on the Gale Cenage platform)

CDL one-time purchase of 1986-2006 content.

The Times Digital Archive, 1986-2006 features an additional 795,000 pages, almost doubling the original collection.  With an exciting, new interface and 20 years of additional content, The Times Digital Archive, 1986-2006 is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the 20^th and 21^st centuries.

There may be some LBL bibliographic or item records that may look a bit different.  LBL’s catalog and local practices are different from Berkeley’s, and while items added in the future will be handled according to UCB conventions and policies, users may run across migrated records that look different. Retrospective cleanup is not planned.

Thanks to all at UCB, LBL and CDL who contributed to the successful completion of this project.

The focus of the meeting was driven in part by answers to a Users Council survey conducted in advance of the meeting. 

Presentations covered such colorful topics as Flying Pigs and Other Wonders; Libraries as Partners in Research: the UC Curation Center’s Tools and Services; Collections in the Cloud: Shared Collection Development in a Changing Climate; Discovery & Delivery Services: A Peek Behind the Scenes; How HathiTrust Serves the UC Community; Open Access Publishing Solutions for UC; and OAC & Calisphere: New Tools and User Data.  Because some of the information is sensitive, you will need to sign-in with a password, available here.

The overlap period for locally licensed and systemwide licensed resources is intended to begin the week of May 6, with a full transition to the new platform for these resources on August 1.  The August 1 date is tentative, dependent on the resolution of outstanding technical issues that affect off-campus access at UCD, UCI, UCR and UCSF. CDL has been working closely with these campuses to resolve the connectivity issues. The overlap access period allows users and library staff to allow for gaining familiarity and experience with the new platform while having the legacy platform available as needed. 

A link to a list of the CDL-licensed ProQuest databases is below.   (Your campus may have additional databases from ProQuest not included here, which will also be transitioned when the systemwide databases are transitioned in August.)  The PIDs for the CDL-licensed databases will be updated to go to an interim screen where users can choose between the legacy and new versions of the databases.  The interim pages also provide a space for detailed information and caveats regarding access to the new platform.

When the transition is complete, the PIDs will be directed to the new platform. 

A full list of the databases with their PIDs as well as additional information is available at:

http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/rl/docs/transitions/ProQuest_Systemwide_Database_Transition.doc

Training Materials for the New ProQuest Interface

ProQuest has a rich array of training materials for their new interface.  For the bulk of materials, go to

http://proquest.com/go/training

The materials range from links to YouTube tutorials, Quick Start Reference Overview, user guides, posters, table tents and more.  (Ignore the links on the upper left hand corner and focus on the links in the middle of the page.)  Some training materials are available in multiple languages, so if you’re an English language speaker, make sure you choose one in English. 

ProQuest has also created a number of LibGuides for their resources, available at

http://proquest.libguides.com/

On the LibGuides Web pages, you can find guides to specific databases, links to live Webinars and recordings, as well as screencasts and tutorials. 

UC’s ProQuest Trainer Aimee Leverette has already or will be contacting the campus libraries to conduct in-person training sessions.  Stay tuned for more information on face-to-face training.