CDLINFO LISTSERV, January 10, 2002, Vol.5, No.1
CONTENTS
- CDL Database Transitions
- PAIS Available Via CSA
- Medline Retires
- UC SFX Service Named
- New Resources Available
- Music Index (Paul Machlis, UCSC)
- RIPM: International Index to Nineteenth-Century Music Periodicals
- Licensing Status Information
- Statistics Summary Report Available
- Library Staff News
- Cecily Johns Joins the CDL
- Fathilah Kamaluddin Leaves the CDL
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about CDLINFO
1. CDL Database Transitions
a. PAIS Available Via CSA
PAIS (Pubic Affairs Information Service) via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) is now available, and will be turned off via SilverPlatter on January 17, 2002. UC-eLinks (CDL's SFX server) will not be turned on, however, until issues are resolved concerning its use with other CSA databases, in consultation with the Transition Steering Committee.b. Medline Retires
MEDLINE/HealthSTAR, the first of CDL's hosted databases, which debuted on October 8, 1987, retired on December 21, 2001. During its fourteen-year life span, it was always the most heavily used article database, as well as one of the most complex and fully featured. PubMed from the National Library of Medicine now replaces Medline, bringing access to health sciences literature into a new era.
UC health sciences librarians initiated the original grant project to develop the database. They worked closely with staff at the Division of Library Automation and later CDL to refine the database and provide extensive education programs and materials. Maintenance of the Medline database over these years required countless staff hours, loading files and performing other kinds of maintenance on this major database. In order to retire the database, staff also spent many hours reprogramming, writing and mounting messages about the upcoming changes.
UC health sciences staff, led by Alison Bunting, UCLA, and the CDL MEDLINE Transition Task Force (Janice Contini, UCLA; Amy Butros, UCSD; Steve Clancy, UCI) and the MEDLINE liaisons at each campus were instrumental in making the transition a smooth one. Their contributions included evaluating the move to PubMed initially, working with NLM/NCBI on many of the UC-specific features for PubMed, and in preparing instructional materials for the UC community. This has been an enormous undertaking on the part of many people within UC. Congratulations, and farewell, MEDLINE/HealthSTAR.
c. UC SFX Service Named
The Transition Steering Committee, with input from the campuses and endorsement by SOPAG, has selected a name for the new SFX linking service. The new name is UC-eLinks. SFX (which stands for Special Effects) is a new product, based on the OpenURL standard, and created by Ex Libris, that provides users with links from a particular citation to various library services. It will replace the current CDL linking technology.
The choice of name was guided by the following principles. The term should
- Include UC as part of the name
- Be short and not too cute or trendy
- Be generic enough to cover future services
- Be easy to say and teach at the reference desk
- Include "links", a term which is recognizable to our users
- Not include SFX since other linking services are likely to develop
Initially, the CDL's SFX server will offer three services: links to full text, links to campus holdings, and links to Request (ILL). From a journal database, a user will see an icon for UC-eLinks, and click on it to link to one of the three services. SFX will initially be activated in the CDL-hosted databases that are transitioning to new vendors, and will eventually function with nearly all the CDL and campus database vendors.
From October through December, selected campus staff conducted testing on a CDL-SFX Prototype with the vendors CSA, Gale, ProQuest and Ovid to test the functionality of the system (e.g., did users encounter error messages, did they get incorrect results). The test also solicited feedback on how intuitive the SFX options are.
For more information about SFX, click here: http://www.sfxit.com/
2. New Resources Available
A list of recently added content is always available at: http://www.cdlib.org/news/whatsnew.html
a. Music Index (Paul Machlis, UCSC)
The UC Music Librarians represented by Paul Machlis at UC Santa Cruz have completed a Tier 2 negotiation with Harmonie Park Press for access, beginning 1 January 2002, to the Music Index (for all campuses except UCSF). The Music Index [ http://uclibs.org/PID/1386 ] provides citations to articles in 655 international music periodicals, 1979 to the present, performance and recording reviews, obituaries, and articles in musicological journals.b. RIPM: International Index to Nineteenth-Century Music Periodicals
RIPM: International Index to Nineteenth-Century Music Periodicals [http://biblioline.nisc.com/scripts/login.dll?BiblioLine&dbname=QRIPM ] has been licensed for all 9 campuses.
Licensing RIPM was a high priority for music bibliographers; it was recommended as a complement to RILM as part of the shared digital collection. It is entirely supported by Shared Collections and Acquisitions Program (SCAP) funds.
RIPM concentrates on documenting nineteenth-century music and musical life. It contains indexes and abstracts of over 65 primarily nineteenth-century journals published in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the United States.
3. Licensing Status Information
This is a reminder that you can find up-to-date information about the status of resources being licensed by the CDL. Details about ongoing negotiations and the status of recently licensed resources are available ("CDL Collections Update" available at http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/docs/ ). Contact your collection development officer or the CDL for the password. Important: Please do not share this document with vendors.
4. Statistics Summary Report Available
The latest statistical profile of the CDL is now available from the "About the CDL" publications web site [http://www.cdlib.org/about/publications/], entitled The California Digital Library: Key Indicators of Collections and Use (July 1, 2000 - June 20, 2001).
As explained in the report's introduction, the CDL has changed from calendar year statistical reporting to fiscal year reporting. Unless otherwise noted, the report presents selected statistics for the fiscal year July 1, 2000 to June 30, 2001, and contrasts them, where possible, with similar metrics from January to December 2000, the coverage from the previous report. It is important to note that, since this report reflects the transition to fiscal year reporting, in most cases, there is an overlap of 6 months of data (Jul-Dec 2000) between these two most recent reports.
If you have any questions, please contact Rosalie Lack at Rosalie.lack@ucop.edu.
5. Library Staff News
a. Cecily Johns Joins the CDL
Cecily Johns, who most recently has served as AUL for Collections and Technical Services at Santa Barbara and Project Director for the Collection Management Initiative (50%) joined the CDL on January 2, 2002, as Senior Associate for Collection Management projects for the duration of 2002. The UC Santa Barbara Library has rearranged a number of local responsibilities in order to make this contribution to the co-library.
Cecily's 50% appointment will be in addition to her continued duties (50%) as Project Director for the Mellon-funded Collection Management Initiative, which carries through the end of 2002. As Senior Associate at the CDL, Cecily will assist with the eScholarship Program, focusing especially on communication and collaboration with the UC libraries, and with other collection management planning projects. Cecily will support the Collection Management Planning Group, a committee of SLASIAC. She will continue to be located primarily at UCSB where the Library will provide office and computer support.
b. Fathilah Kamaluddin Leaves the CDL
December 28 was Fathilah Kamaluddin's last day at the CDL. Fathilah joined the CDL over a decade ago as our main ADABAS database administrator and has been an absolutely vital member of our staff for both mainframe and, more recently, UNIX database applications. We'll greatly miss her database skills as well as her cheerful willingness and wonderfully sardonic humor.
6. For More Information
a. CDL News
Several items of interest, including "Milestones," "Progress Reports," "What's New," and previous issues of CDLINFO are posted on the CDL web site (http://www.cdlib.org/) under News and Developments. Please share news of this resource with your colleagues!Remember also that reports, working documents, and status information of particular interest to library staff, are all available at http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/.
b. Contacts for Questions or Problems
If you have problems accessing or using the system or have questions, including questions about the status of electronic journal collections and Internet resources, you can contact CDL staff in one of the following ways:- 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.
- Send an e-mail message to cdl@www.cdlib.org.
- Click on "News" at http://www.dbs.cdlib.org/ (also known as http://www.melvyl.ucop.edu) for information about system outages, problems with particular databases, the status of a resource, etc.
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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