Six campuses (Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, and Santa Barbara) have purchased the LandScan 2011 Global Population Database. Produced by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), LandScan provides ambient population (24-hour average) data by country, admin1 unit (state/province), pixel (sq km), and custom area. Data is broken down by gender ratio and age group. Access is provided by East View Geospatial through the East View LandScan Global 2011 Web App at http://uclibs.org/PID/241791. Off-campus access is available through campus client VPN.  Proxy server access has been unreliable or unconfirmed at most campuses, but it does work through the UC Berkeley proxy server.

For more advanced users, data can be downloaded from the Web App for use in GIS software. GIS users can also access the data directly through their GIS software using the Web Map Service (WMS) or Web Coverage Service (WCS), though this access has been spotty, especially off-campus:

• WMS: http://wms.cartographic.com/GWS/services/LandScan2011/Dataset/mapserver/WMSServer
• WCS: http://wms.cartographic.com/GWS/services/LandScan2011/Dataset/mapserver/WCSServer

Here is the fuller ORNL description of the database: “At approximately 1 km resolution (30″ X 30″), LandScan is the finest resolution global population distribution data available and represents an ambient population (average over 24 hours). The LandScan algorithm, an R&D 100 Award Winner, uses spatial data and imagery analysis technologies and a multi-variable dasymetric modeling approach to disaggregate census counts within an administrative boundary. Since no single population distribution model can account for the differences in spatial data availability, quality, scale, and accuracy as well as the differences in cultural settlement practices, LandScan population distribution models are tailored to match the data conditions and geographical nature of each individual country and region.” For more information, East View has an FAQ at http://www.eastview.com/online/faq_landscan.

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.

Several campuses have selected to participate in a Tier 2 for an eBook collection from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

This collection, divided by imprint dates, has a front list consisting of 35 titles released from 2010-2012 which the seven following campuses will receive: Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz. In addition, Merced will also obtain the 2007-2009 list of 27 titles and Berkeley will receive the full collection of 309 titles, including the backlist.

These books cover the following subject content: power and energy; computing & management; history of technology; electromagnetic waves; telecommunications; networks; radar, sonar and navigation; circuits, devices and systems and renewable energy. MARC records will soon be added to all holding libraries’ catalogs for each title. Simultaneous users can access a given title.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences XI will contain at least 125 titles by the end of 2014, with page-image display, searchable full text, and PDF output for every page of every issue from a journal’s start up to JSTOR’s traditional “moving wall” embargo, typically the most recent 3 to 5 years. Ten titles will show runs of more than 100 years, with the earliest issues dating from 1783.

The focus of JSTOR Arts & Sciences XI will be upon the humanities, with emphasis on language and literature, history, art and architecture, classical studies, and music. Other subjects covered will include bibliography and library science, religion, philosophy, archaeology, performing arts and film studies, as well as, American studies, Asian studies, Jewish studies, and African American studies.  Selected titles in JSTOR XI include:

• American Scholar
• Antike Kunst
• Black Scholar
• Christian Education / The Christian Scholar
• Historical Society of Southern California, Los Angeles
• Marvels & Tales
• RQ; Reference & User Services Quarterly
• Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology
• Transatlantic Review
• Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society
• The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies

Seven campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Santa Barbara, San Diego) are now participating in a Tier 2 negotiation for the ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library (SEDL) at http://enterprise.astm.org.  ASTM, formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), is a globally recognized leader in the development and delivery of international voluntary consensus standards.

Today, some 12,200 active ASTM standards are used around the world to improve product quality, enhance safety, facilitate market access and trade, and build consumer confidence.  In addition there are 28,500 historical and withdrawn standards, plus 12,300 Redlined Standards (PDF documents that provide change marks to compare the additions, deletions or other changes between an active standard and the prior version) included where revisions were made.  There are nearly 100 categories of standards with the largest number in the categories of Construction, Metals, Nonferrous Metal Products, Paint & Related Coating, Petroleum, Lubricants & Fossil Fuels, Plastics, Environmental, Rubber, Steel, Textiles, Electrical Insulation and Electronics, Water & Environmental Technology, Nuclear, Solar and Geothermal Energy, General Methods & Instrumentation,  and new areas that reflect 3D Imaging standards, Additive Manufacturing Standards, Medical Device Standards and Implant Standards among others.  The standards are searchable by keyword or standard number and full text access to all standards in either PDF or HTML format can be retrieved.

The SEDL requires that all users click through and accepts the terms of the license.  While ASTM is best known for its standards, SEDL also includes nearly every other ASTM publication, including 1500+ books and 60,000+ papers and chapters dating back to 1932. 

In addition to the standards, three main collections of publications compose the books, journals and papers of the SEDL, and the CDL Shared Cataloging or SCP unit will be processing individual bibliographic records at the source level for the following content that will be noted in Melvyl and local opacs:

• Peer reviewed conference proceedings/Special Technical Publications (STPs)
• Journals – ASTM issues the following titles: 
1. Geotechnical Testing Journal
2. Journal of Testing and Evaluation
3. Journal of ASTM International
4. Journal of Forensic Sciences Backfile from 972-2005
5. Journal of Cement, Concrete and Aggregates (CCA) – historical issues
6. Journal of Composites Technology and Research (JCTR) – historical issues
• Manuals, Monographs and Data Series Library – basically an eBook collection

This is a major digital resource for the participating campuses.  If you have any additional questions, please contact Julia Gelfand, Resource Liaison (jgelfand@uci.edu; 949-824-4971)

Momentum Press 2011 Digital Library (All campuses including LBL; on the ebrary platform.)http://uclibs.org/PID/241136

Digital Library (45 books): Comprised of five Topical Engineering Collections:  Manufacturing Engineering; Mechanical & Chemical Engineering; Materials Science & Engineering; Civil & Environmental Engineering; General Reference.

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.

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) eBook Collection, 1968-2012 (Tier 1, all campuses; on the RSC platform)   There is no collection-level PID for this resource; the eBook titles were individually cataloged and distributed to the campuses by Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) staff on 7/16/12.

The RSC eBook Collection is a definitive point of reference for anyone working in the chemical sciences.  More than 1,000 books spanning 40 years have been brought together, digitized as pdf files and made fully searchable. The result is a comprehensive overview of research and opinion in a multitude of areas of chemical science.

Continually updated and expanded throughout the year, the RSC eBook Collection provides access to new content as it is published and continuous access to RSC’s full catalog of books. The eBook Collection is fully searchable and indexed to chapter level, with all documents provided as pdfs.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences X (All campuses; on the JSTOR platform) [To be completed by the end of 2013]

With a minimum of 125 titles available by the end of 2013, the JSTOR Arts & Sciences X Archive Collection features broad coverage in Business and the Social Sciences.  Sociology, Education, Public Policy & Administration, and the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine are all represented in this collection. The Arts & Sciences X Archive and Current Collections also include titles from new JSTOR disciplines, such as Transportation Studies and Development Studies. The titles included in the Arts & Sciences X Collection will serve researchers, scholars, and professionals in disciplines that rely on science and social science theory, data, and analysis to support their work in the field.

Répetoire International des Sources Musicales / International Inventory of Musical Sources  (RISM) (Systemwide access; on the RISM platform)

http://uclibs.org/PID/32967

RISM (Répetoire International des Sources Musicales / International Inventory of Musical Sources) is now available though a free online catalog.  The Bavarian State Library, the State Library of Berlin, and RISM collaborated to make this resource freely available.  The online catalog gives access to the data of Series A/II: Music manuscripts after 1600 data which represents historical music resources from 32 countries representing approximately 700,000 references from 25,000 composers.  The interface offers both basic and advanced search options.  Results are sorted by composer and facets are available to refine search results by categories such as subject, scoring, and source type.  

RISM, to date, has been available at UC libraries through the EBSCOhost interface.  At the recommendation of the Music Bibliographers group, RISM has been  made available solely from this free online catalog version.  Search Options are available in German and English.  

Shanghai News – Shun Bao (申报) Database (All campuses except UCSF; on the Green Apple platform)

http://uclibs.org/PID/220157

Shun Bao was the first major newspaper in China, having national coverage spanning from 1872 to 1949, from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic Era. It is a primary and critical e-resource for modern Chinese studies.

SIAM e-books (All campuses; on the SIAM platform)

http://uclibs.org/PID/220147

SIAM (Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics) books have been a leading source of knowledge for the world’s applied mathematics and computational science communities. SIAM’s line-up of stellar, prize-winning authors and titles that address both timely and fundamental topics have made SIAM books indispensible to researchers, faculty, and students around the world.The SIAM library of approximately 400 books the complete text of SIAM books in all 14 of SIAM’s book series.

Web of Knowledge Transition (All campuses; on the Thomson Reuters platform)

http://uclibs.org/PID/119925

The new version of Web of Knowledge introduces new features that will ease the process of searching scientific literature and presents significant advances in the analysis and management of results. 

• New algorithms have increased the accuracy of connections between source items and citations making the Web of Knowledge the most reliable research resource available today. 
• More sort options with cleaner, simpler displays make navigating searches and citation paths easier than ever; while new capabilities help ensure fast and efficient searching.

For a full list of new features and capabilities, please visit thenewwok.com.