CDLINFO Newsletter, January 8, 2004, Vol. 7, No. 1
CONTENTS
- Take Our Survey! Give us Feedback - Deadline Extended
- New Resource Available
- STAT!Ref
- Anthropology Plus: Two RLG Databases Become One
- CSL Records Complete in the Melvyl Catalog
- New Position: Search Begins for Director of Shared Print Collections
(Courtesy Announcement for Systemwide Library Planning) - Library Staff News
- Cecily Johns Retires
- For More Information
- News and Publications
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- About CDLINFO
1. Take Our Survey! Give us Feedback - Deadline Extended
In September 2003, the CDL launched two new web sites: the CDL "brochure" site, intended to provide general information about the CDL to a broad public audience, and "Inside CDL," intended to provide UC library staff and other CDL partners with the supporting documentation required to accomplish their collaborative work with the CDL.
Four months have passed since the launch of the two sites, and the CDL now invites and encourages you, our partners, to spend a few minutes exploring the sites and provide us with additional feedback on how well the new sites are meeting your information needs. The URLs for the sites are:
CDL brochure site: http://www.cdlib.org
Inside CDL: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/
The brief survey is available at:
http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/2734/cdlib_survey.htm
The last day to take the survey is Friday, January 16. Thank you in advance for taking a few moments to provide us with feedback.
2. New Resource Available
a. STAT!Ref
By Susan Lessick (UC Irvine), Resource LiaisonSTAT!Ref is an information resource that offers full-text, cross-searchable access to the contents of 45 classic medical and drug reference books. The latest edition of each title is provided. Shared Catalogers are cataloging the records for the individual titles in STAT!Ref; the records will be available soon. You will be able to link directly to each individual title from the catalog with separate URLs (PIDs). The medical texts in STAT!Ref include:
5 Minute Emergency Medicine Consult (1999)
ACS Surgery: Principles & Practice (2003)
AHFS Drug Information® (2003)
Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (2001)
Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology (2001)
Current Critical Care Diagnosis & Treatment (2003)
Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Cardiology (2003)
Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Gastroenterology (2003)
Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Orthopedics (2003)
Current Emergency Diagnosis & Treatment (1992)
Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment (2004)
Current Obstetric & Gynecologic Diagnosis & Treatment (2003)
Current Pediatric Diagnosis & Treatment (2003)
Current Surgical Diagnosis & Treatment (2003)
Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses (2003)
Degowin's Diagnostic Examination (2000)
Delmar's Guide to Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests (2002)
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (2000)
Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations (2001)
Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics Manual (2002)
Ellenhorn's Medical Toxicology (1997)
Family Medicine: Principles and Practice (2003)
Geriatric Medicine: An Evidence-Based Approach (2003)
Griffith's 5-Minute Clinical Consult (2004)
ICU Book (1998)
Ingenix ICD-9-CM Vols 1&3 and CPT® with RVUs Data File (2003)
Internal Medicine (1998)
Medical Immunology (2001)
Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy (1999)
Mosby's Drug Consult™ (2003)
Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnosis, Interventions, and Rationales (2002)
Principles and Practice of Emergency Medicine (1999)
Principles of Surgery (1999)
Review of General Psychiatry (2000)
Review of Medical Physiology (2003)
Review of Natural Products (2003)
Rudolph's Pediatrics (2002)
Smith's General Urology (2004)
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary (2001)
Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders (2001)
USP DI® Advice for the Patient (2004)
USP DI® Drug Information for the Health Care Professional (2004)
WebMD® Scientific American® Medicine (2003)
Williams Obstetrics (2001)
STAT!Ref allows you to search in individual books, selected books, or all books. Hypertext links within the articles allow you to view tables and illustrations. STAT!Ref permits the use of Boolean operators, and allows you to select how NEAR (how many words apart) words should be. Special features include free access to Stedman's Medical Dictionary and links to the tables of contents for all books in STAT!Ref.
STAT!Ref negotiations were completed by Barbara Schader at UCLA on behalf of the Health Sciences librarians. Seven participating campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, and San Francisco) will pay an annual subscription fee and share 15 simultaneous user ports for the electronic medical book collection. The licensing agreement also authorizes the use of reasonable portions of the licensed materials for course reserves and interlibrary loan.
The URL for participating campuses is:
http://online.statref.com/default.asp?grpalias=LDBL
3. Anthropology Plus: Two RLG Databases Become One
As of January 1, 2004, two RLG anthropology databases ("Anthropological Literature" and "Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute") became available as a single database, RLG's new "Anthropology Plus" database.
Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.
Suzanne Calpestri (UC Berkeley), who has been the Resource Liaison for the Anthropological Literature and Anthropological Index databases, will continue as the Resource Liaison for the new combined database. Records in the Directory of CDL-Licensed Content and the Melvyl Catalog are currently being updated and will be available shortly. In the meantime, you can access this new resource via the following PID http://uclibs.org/PID/34670 or URL http://autoweb.rlg.org/cgi-bin/webscr/cucx/ewebyeq1a.scr.
4. CSL Records Complete in the Melvyl Catalog
The California State Library (CSL) "snapshot" and update files have now been completely loaded into the Melvyl Catalog.
A separate link to the CSL library catalog (http://www.lib.state.ca.us/) is also available on the list of "Other Catalogs" in Melvyl.
Please share this information with library staff and other users, particularly users of government documents and information.
5. New Position: Search Begins for Director of Shared Print Collections
(Courtesy Announcement for Systemwide Library Planning)Daniel Greenstein, Associate Vice Provost for Systemwide Library Planning, has appointed a search committee to assist in filling the unique and challenging position of Director of Shared Print Collections for the University of California libraries.
Reporting to AVP Greenstein and consulting regularly with the University Librarians, the Director of Shared Print Collections will be responsible for the planning, development, implementation, and management of the UC libraries collection in an environment of shared governance.
The Search Committee is as follows:
- Claire Bellanti, Director of Library Resource Sharing and SRLF, UCLA
- Beverlee French, Director of Shared Content, CDL (Chair)
- Patricia Iannuzzi, Associate University Librarian, Director of Doe/Moffitt Libraries, and Interim Director of Collections, UC Berkeley
- Carole Kiehl, Associate University Librarian, Technical Services, UC Irvine
- Lucia Snowhill, Collection Development Coordinator, UC Santa Barbara
- Victoria Williamson, Bibliographer/Reference for sociology, ethnic and gender studies, UC San Diego
Please contact any of the search committee members with nominations.
6. Library Staff News
a. Cecily Johns Retires
After may years at the University of California, and nearly four years of contributions to Systemwide Library Planning and CDL projects, Cecily Johns officially retired on December 31, 2003.
In July 2000, Cecily accepted a part-time appointment with the CDL and Systemwide Library Planning to develop a proposal to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for what became the Collection Management Initiative (CMI). The breadth of Cecily's experience -- at one time or another, she has had administrative responsibility for virtually every facet of research library operations - and her deep knowledge of the UC's libraries were invaluable in developing this successful project proposal.
These same qualities made Cecily the logical choice to serve as Project Manager for the CMI project in January 2001. Cecily made major contributions across the whole range of CMI projects and activities, and was indispensable in her special role of communicating and coordinating with the campus libraries. Most of the informational materials on the CMI web site (http://www.ucop.edu/cmi/), including progress reports and publicity materials, were authored by Cecily, usually in close consultation with a host of CMI advisory groups.
She also provided leadership for the campuses in implementing the Journal Use study, including the painstaking process of selecting 300 titles for the study, planning for the relocation of nearly 9,000 volumes to storage, and overseeing the collection of use data for a one-year period.
Cecily joined the CDL nearly two years ago as a Senior Associate at half-time, complementing her role as CMI Project Director. She assisted the eScholarship program with outreach to the UC libraries, which included coordinating the BioMed Central Liaisons, supporting SLASIAC's Collection Management Planning Group, staffing the CDC's Use Data Analysis Task Force, and overseeing the UC editors' project.
The CDL and the UC libraries were extraordinarily fortunate to have someone with Cecily's experience in the UC system in technical services, collection development, and public services roles, and to have the UC Santa Barbara library provide her with a home base for these activities. We will miss her cheerful readiness to pitch in wherever needed and her sage advice, and wish her the best in her real retirement.
7. For More Information
a. News and Publications
News and events, press releases, reports and guidelines, and articles published by CDL staff are posted on the CDL web site. Please share news of this resource with your colleagues!
In addition, status information about CDL resources, reports, and working documents of particular interest to library staff are available on the Inside CDL web site.
b. Contacts for Questions or Problems
If you have problems accessing CDL resources or have questions, including questions about the status of electronic journal collections and Internet resources, contact the CDL:- For immediate assistance, call the CDL Helpline at 510-987-0555. Callers with TDD equipment, please call 1-800-735-2929 in California for the telephone relay operator.
- Or, send an email to cdl@www.cdlib.org.
For information about whether your UC campus has access to a particular electronic journal or Internet resource, contact your local collection development officer.
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