CONTENTS
- Melvyl and Database Transitions
- CDL-Hosted Databases Transition Steering Committee Appointed
- New Resources Available
- Society of Automotive Engineers Standards and Publications Database (Karen Andrews, UCD)
- Human Relations Area File (HRAF) Collection of Archaeology
- SciFinder® Scholar Client Provides Search Enhancements (Marion Peters, UCLA)
- Access to PAIS International via Z39.50 ends January 28
- MyLibrary@CDL Progress Report
- Co-Library Staff News
- Karen Cargille Sr. Associate for Shared Content
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about CDLINFO
1. Melvyl and Database Transitions
a. CDL-Hosted Databases Transition Steering Committee Appointed
A Transition Steering Committee has been appointed as an advisory committee to the CDL University Librarian as the first step in this critical undertaking of investigating alternatives for the provision of CDL-hosted abstracting and indexing (A&I) databases (see the December 6th issue of CDLINFO [http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo120600.html Vol.3, No.18]).Further background information including the charge for the Transition Steering Committee is available at: [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/a-i-trans/]
Committee Members are:
Peter Brueggeman (UCSD)
Andrea Duda (UCSB)
Min-Lin Fang (UCSF)
Cheryl Gomez (UCSC)
Gabriela Gray (UCLA)
Robert Heyer-Grey (UCD)
Patricia Iannuzzi (UCB)
John Ober (CDL)
Cathy Palmer (UCI)
John Tanno (UCR)
Laine Farley, ex officio (A&I Transition Project Manager)
CDL Sr. Associate for Education, Usability and Outreach, ex officio
The committee will be responsible for communication and education to the user community during the process. The committee has been charged to make a recommendation by July 2001 as to which external vendors to pursue for the eight locally loaded databases and any of the Z39.50 databases which need to transition to new vendors. Implementation should be complete by July 2002 and parallel systems will be operated through December 2002 if necessary.
2. New Resource Available
NOTE: New resources listed below are not yet in the CDL Directory of Collections and Services; they will be added within the next 2 weeks. You can access them directly from the URL provided.a. Society of Automotive Engineers Standards and Publications Database (SAE) (Karen Andrews, UCD)
Karen Andrews (UCD) negotiated the license for the Tier 2 resource, Society of Automotive Engineers Standards and Publications Database (SAE) [http://www.elecpubs.sae.org/PLDatabase/Database.dll?f=templates&fn=main-h.htm&2.0]; the web version is now available at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine and San Diego. The database will be available for unlimited simultaneous research use, 24x7.
SAE is an index of the society's technical papers, magazine and journal articles, books, reports, and standards. It includes abstracts and covers the dates 1906 - present.
For more information, contact Karen Andrews, UC Davis Physical Sciences & Engineering Library, 530-752-1627 or klandrews@ucdavis.edu.
b. Human Relations Area File (HRAF) Collection of Archaeology
HRAF Collection of Archaeology [http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/e/ehraf/archaeology/] is now available to all campuses except UCSF. The HRAF was licensed through a co-investment by the campuses. This resource provides researchers and students access to archaeological materials for comparative studies within and across regions.- Installments each cover 10 to 12 major traditions around the world with approximately 15,000 pages.
- Every paragraph, table, graph and figure is indexed according to HRAF's subject-indexing system, the Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM). Free-text, Boolean and proximity searches are also available.
- The file on each major tradition typically contains an overview by an expert and descriptive materials on 5 to 7 sites.
- Traditions are selected by random sampling from the Outline of Archaeological Traditions (forthcoming) compiled with the help of a distinguished Board of Advisors. To encourage historical and evolutionary analysis, the traditions prior to and following each tradition will be included in subsequent installments.
The Resource Liaison for HRAF is Kathy Creely, UC San Diego.
3. New SciFinder® Scholar Client Provides Search Enhancements (Marion Peters, UCLA)
SciFinder® Scholar 2000, released Fall 2000 by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), offers UC users several search enhancements. Scholar2000 adds access to 11 million records from OLDMEDLINE and MEDLINE for searching in conjunction with the 16 million Chemical Abstracts CAplus (1967- ) records previously available. Two new search options include searches by company name including name variations and searches by functional groups in reactions. For articles published from 1999 forward, answer sets include hyperlinks from journal article references to corresponding CAplus or MEDLINE records. Full text for these references which display a computer icon are also retrievable from CAS's ChemPort connection.
To access these new features, UC students, faculty, and staff need to install the SciFinder Scholar 2000 client (MS Windows or Apple Macintosh) or upgrade existing SciFinder Scholar 3.0 clients. Both the SciFinder Scholar 2000 client and the upgrade for existing clients are available for downloading from UCLA's Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Web site: http://dirac.chem.ucla.edu/scifind
The California Digital Library recently completed SciFinder Scholar renegotiations with CAS for a slight increase in ports for 2001. Users are reminded to logout after completing their searches since ports are still limited and shared among the UC campuses. SciFinder Scholar is accessible nearly 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The system is unavailable from 3 p.m. (PST) on Saturdays to 5 a.m. (PST) Sundays. SciFinder Scholar complements other CDL-hosted databases such as BIOSIS Previews, Current Contents, INSPEC, MEDLINE, and Web of Science, available through CDL's Web site. Questions regarding SciFinder Scholar should be directed to campus contacts (a list of contacts is available at: [http://dirac.chem.ucla.edu/scifind/uccontacts.html]).
4. Access to PAIS International via Z39.50 ends January 28
Access to the OCLC version of the PAIS International database via Z39.50 for both the web and telnet interfaces for the CDL hosted databases will cease on January 28th. OCLC has recently made extensive changes to the file structure for the Z39.50 version of this database. Due to the lack of resources, short notification time, and the principles outlined in the A&I transition process (see the Dec. 6, 2000 issue of CDLINFO for more information http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo120600.html ) CDL will no longer support the Z39.50 version. All users should be directed to the OCLC native mode web interface.The Resource Liaison for PAIS International is Carol Womack, UC Irvine.
5. MyLibrary@CDL Progress Report
After extensive evaluation of the MyLibrary@CDL prototype and a review of CDL's emerging priorities, active development of this system is being suspended indefinitely. The prototype will remain available for use on an experimental and "as-is" basis. At the same time, CDL intends to share the considerable body of information gained from the evaluation process, and to work with any UC campus library that wishes to develop a user-customizable portal or add customization features to its web site. A statement on this decision, and detailed reports on the MyLibrary@CDL focus groups and user observation studies, can be found at: [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/system_services/projects/mylibrary/]. Many thanks go to the Tools and Services Working Group, the evaluation liaisons who conducted focus group sessions, and especially to the users who helped in this evaluation effort.
6. Co-Library Staff News
a. Karen Cargille Sr. Associate for Shared Content
Karen Cargille, Head of Acquisitions at the UCSD Library and already serving CDL's Shared Content efforts at 20% has been appointed as a Senior Associate for Shared Content, effective January 15, 2001 at the 50% level. This appointment will be in place as long as CDL's Director for Shared Content Beverlee French is also Interim University Librarian. She joins Mary Engle in being a primary negotiator for shared resources and will concentrate on ejournals and the EBSCO efforts (see http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll for the 2000-2001 CDL Licensing Work Plan). She will participate ex officio on the CDL Joint Steering Committee for Shared Collections, serve as a member of CDL's Licensing Team, summarize terms and consult with other groups (CDC, SOPAG, etc.) as needed, and assist the Director in coordinating Shared Cataloging issues.
7. For More Information
a. CDL News
Several items of interest, including "Milestones," "Highlights 1997-1998," "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.
c. Information about CDLINFO
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