CONTENTS
- CDL Directory Opening
- PIR
- Update
- Web of Science
- CDL Appointments:
- Dawn Talbot to Assist with License Information and Responsible Use
- Karen Cargille to Assist CDL Acquisitions Group
- Susan Starr Named Chair to STIC
- Andrea Sevetson Appointed Special Assistant for Government Information
- Libbie Stephenson: DLF Workshop's CDL Representative
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about the CDLINFO-L Listserv
1. CDL Opening
Watch for a special issue of CDLINFO next week announcing the January 20th opening of the CDL via its web site and its Directory of Collections and Services.Two new services for the web debut with the opening: Request and Update. Both are described below.
2. Request (aka "PIR")
Library staff are reminded that the Request service debuts on January 20, 1999. Announcements about the opening of the CDL will mention this important collaboratively built service. Sources of information include the PIR Liaisons on each campus and the Request web site at (http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/pir/) which includes a "Briefing" for public services staff and draft text that can be adapted for local descriptions of the service.The Request function was designed and built by a cross-campus team and with input from all campuses. Available from within the Melvyl Catalog for faculty, graduate students, and staff, it lets users make automatic requests -- up to ten per day -- to borrow books from campus libraries other than their own. If users are eligible for their local campus document delivery service, they may also use Request to ask for books owned by their own campus library. (Document delivery service is not available at all campuses.)
The Request function is not yet available in the web interface for other CDL-hosted databases. Users who have been using the Request function in the telnet interface (telnet://melvyl.ucop.edu) to ask for items from other databases may continue to do so.
The Request button is available in three locations within the Melvyl Catalog: from the display of Melvyl Catalog search results; from the display of Melvyl Catalog Update results; and from the display of a Saved List.
3. Update
Update -- also debuting on January 20th -- is an automated process that performs specific searches on selected databases every week. The results contain records that have been added to the system in the previous week, so that users continue to receive new records for the same search(es). Results are saved online as Update Results and may also be emailed. To use the Update feature, the user must have a Personal Profile with which his or her Updates will be identified. Updates will be run from searches that are selected from the user's Search History.Most CDL-hosted databases are currently available for the Update service. Searches that use the ADDED index are not permitted. Databases with an @ in the name (e.g., PREMEDLINE@NLM) are not available for Updates.
4. Web of Science
Web of Science is composed of the three ISI Citation Databases that collectively index more than 8,400 high quality, peer-review journals cover-to-cover, providing users with complete bibliographic data, full-length author abstracts, and cited references from the world's most influential journals. Licensing of the Web of Science is due to successful "co-investment" of resources for the UC Community. The general libraries share in the funding of WoS, along with the CDL. Negotiations, including substantial discount pricing, were led by the CDL and Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections member, Clint Howard at UC Davis.The Science Citation Index Expanded covers over 5,600 journals (approximately 2,000 more titles than the print or CD-ROM version) and is updated with 16,000 new records every week. The Social Sciences Citation Index covers 1,700 journals and is updated with 2,800 new records every week. Additionally, items from over 7,000 leading science and social sciences journals are selectively included. The Arts & Humanities Citation Index covers over 1,140 journals and is updated with 2,200 new records every week. Additionally, items from over 5,600 leading science and technical journals are selectively included.
Through the Web of Science, these multidisciplinary databases may be searched independently or in any combination. Users can perform current and retrospective searches of the files using Netscape or Internet Explorer.
Traditionally, researchers have used the citation indexes to search a relevant paper and find other, more recent papers that cite it. The Web of Science enhances the power of cited reference searching by allowing researchers to:
- navigate forward, backward, and through the research literature
- link to original article information when a cited reference of interest is found (for original articles covered by the database)
- locate all cited authors, not just first authors, for articles in the database
- track "times cited" information for articles on a weekly basis
- find relevant items which share one or more cited references, through the Related Records˝ function
- discover key papers by ranking found items by "times cited".
Web of Science is a sophisticated research vehicle, offering customized search options, expanded citation information (author's abstracts and bibliography), and the option of saving queries for updates, printing, or exporting to bibliographic management software.
5. CDL Appointments
a. Dawn Talbot to Assist with License Information and Responsible Use
The CDL is pleased to announce the appointment of Dawn Talbot (UCSD). Through her assignment CDL will be able to move forward in making readily available information about the conditions placed upon use of licensed CDL resources. Our objectives are to promote awareness by users that such conditions exist and to provide CDL license texts to the campuses via the web (copies of signed licenses are distributed in paper to University Librarians).In addition to creating public information, Dawn will work with UCSD Acquisitions (which has developed a database for presenting redacted licenses) and CDL staff to recommend a structure and workflow for the retrospective and regular scanning and linking of appropriate license terms to CDL resources. Dawn has also agreed to serve as the Evaluation Coordinator for the CDL/LOC Environmental Information Project, now entering its second year. This assignment draws upon Dawn's background in library evaluation work, including a large-scale user survey undertaken at UCSD in 1995.
Her work on the licenses will be concentrated in January and February and she will work with a number of CDL staff -- especially our license specialists and our web specialists -- to complete this work.
b. Karen Cargille Will Work with CDL Shared Collections
The CDL is pleased to announce that acquisitions efforts at UCSD will be expanded to include formally a portion of Acquisitions Department Head Karen Cargille's time for the next six months. This will allow us to work more aggressively on the electronic journal priorities identified by the STIC Task Force and the STIC faculty survey. Many of these publishers are cited in the recent social science and humanities surveys as well. Karen brings to the CDL considerable expertise in both acquisitions and science libraries. She will develop a "CDL acquisitions checklist", conduct investigations, and prepare negotiating points for CDL.c. Susan Starr Named Chair to STIC Task Force
The CDL is pleased to announce that Susan Starr, Associate University Librarian for Sciences at UCSD, has agreed to chair the STIC Task Force and help continue the splendid teamwork that has characterized the STIC Task Force.Although basic priorities for electronic journals have been set, the Task Force faces a full agenda. It will re-order publisher priorities in light of the faculty survey and electronic product readiness, propose co-investment and logistical models for the transition from print to electronic, develop criteria and mechanisms for selection of CDL open access materials in the sciences, and continue to provide analyses and feedback, often by identifying librarians with appropriate expertise.
d. Andrea Sevetson Appointed Special Assistant for Government Information
CDL is pleased to announce the appointment of Andrea Sevetson (Berkeley) as Special Assistant for Government Information for the California Digital Library, January-June, 1999. Read "CDL's Role in Developing a Systemwide Strategy for Providing Access to Digital Government Information" (available on the Shared Collections website at (http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/)), which defines her role.Andrea brings to this assignment particular expertise in federal information and a broad background in UC and national activities. She has been chair of ALA's Government Documents Roundtable, a member of the Interassociation Working Group on Government Information Policy, active in UC/Stanford Government Information Librarians group, and has worked closely with UC Data to create a "Social Science & Government Data Library".
e. Libbie Stephenson: DLF Workshop's CDL Representative
Libbie Stephenson (Data Archivist, UCLA) will represent the CDL in the Digital Library Federation Workshop on Social Science Data Archives on January 27-28 at Princeton University. She will represent a Universitywide perspective with regard to the CDL's interest in social science data. The purpose of the workshop is to explore current problems and emerging solutions in three key areas: facilities for users to discover and retrieve relevant and related datasets; means for users to interpret and evaluate the comparability of datasets; and tools and methods of data extraction for analysis. Following the workshop, Libbie will provide CDL with a report on current problems and emerging solutions with regard to social science data files, and will advise CDL on the potential for participation in future DLF initiatives in this arena.Andrea Sevetson will also attend the DLF workshop, representing UC Berkeley.
6. For More Information
a. CDL News
Several items of interest, including "Milestones," "Highlights 1997-1998," and "What's New" are now posted on the CDL informational web site (http://www.cdlib.org/) under News and Developments. Please share news of this resource with your colleagues!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.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.
c. Information about the CDLINFO-L Listserv
The CDLINFO-L Listserv is designed for UC library employees as a first step in CDL efforts to build an active communications program to inform the UC community about progress in creation of the CDL, policy issues under discussion, and newly available electronic resources. We hope that subscribers from the UC libraries will pass on selected information from the Listserv to faculty, staff, and students on their campuses, as appropriate. On January 20, 1999 the descriptive web site at http://www.cdlib.org will change to become an integrated site providing access to CDL collections and services as well as updated descriptive information.Eligible subscribers: UC library employees
To subscribe: Please send the following line to listserv@listserv.ucop.edu: SUBSCRIBE CDLINFO-L (your name)
Frequency of publication: Biweekly, or as new information warrants.
Communicating with the Listserv: While the CDL Listserv does not accept submissions, subscribers are encouraged to send suggestions, thoughts, and comments on material in the Listserv or on related issues to the CDL at cdl@ucop.edu.