CDLINFO Newsletter, January 26, 2006, Vol. 9, No. 2
CONTENTS
- CDL Link Resolver Services Web Site
- Duke University Press, eDuke Scholarly Collection Transitions From Ingenta to Highwire
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- For More Information
- News and Publications
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- About CDLINFO
1. CDL Link Resolver Services Web Site
A new CDL web page entitled “Link Resolver Services for UC” is now available at http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/linkres/.
The site includes documents, principles, specifications, assessment activities, and the members of the Link Resolver Planning Group. It was built to include materials related to CDL’s and the Shared Cataloging Program’s (SCP) migration from a PURL server to OpenURLs for document linking purposes.
Thanks to SCP, Users Council, HOPS, HOTS, and the SCP Advisory Committee for input on this complex issue.
2. Duke University Press, eDuke Scholarly Collection Transitions From Ingenta to Highwire
By Emily Stambaugh (Resource Liaison), UC Riverside
The eDuke Scholarly Collection has transitioned from Ingenta to Highwire, effective January 1, 2006. Early activation began December 15, 2005 and was completed by the end of the year for all campuses. Duke University Press representatives expect that usage data will be more reliable and Counter-compliant through the Highwire service.
The eDuke Scholarly Collection consists of 29 titles published by Duke University Press:
- American Literary Scholarship
- American Literature
- American Speech
- boundary 2
- Camera Obscura
- Common Knowledge
- Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East
- differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
- Eighteenth-Century Life
- Ethnohistory
- French Historical Studies
- GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
- Hispanic American Historical Review
- History of Political Economy
- Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
- Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas (new in 2004)
- Mediterranean Quarterly
- MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly
- New German Critique (new in 2006)
- Pedagogy: critical approaches to teaching literature, language, culture, and composition
- Poetics Today
- positions: east asia cultures critique
- Public Culture
- Radical History Review
- Social Science History
- Social Text
- South Atlantic Quarterly
- Theater
Titles published by Duke University Press that are not part of the package include:
- Neuro-oncology. Available Dec. 15, 2005 on Highwire.
- Duke mathematical journal. Libraries may gain access through Project Euclid. Backfile access can also be subscribed to, with a 20-year maintenance period (Duke University Press's best effort at perpetual access).
- Philosophical Review (ISSN 00318108). Currently published by the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University. Duke University Press will publish and distribute it through Highwire in 2006.
- Publication of the American Dialectic Society (PADS). This annual is only offered in print and comes with American Speech, which is in the package. No plans to publish it electronically.
Ttitles that have changed publication status.
- Neptantla: Views from South. Duke University Press ceased publication in 2003. Earlier issues will remain on Project Muse.
- Duke gifted letter. Duke University Press will cease publication in 2006. This is a newsletter/web site for families and gifted students.
3. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Founded in 1995, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) is a dynamic, community-maintained, digital-only reference work.
SEP currently contains more than 750 entries in 35 subject areas, including philosophy of science, aesthetics, history of ideas, feminism, ethics (theoretical and applied), social and political philosophy, and logic. New entries and updates are added on a regular basis and the final edition will have 1,074 commissioned entries. A prestigious board of editors rigorously referees all new entries and updates. More than 1,000 authors and 100 subject editors contribute their expertise free of charge. Because its content is readily accessible via popular web search engines such as Google, SEP is widely used by scholars, students and the general public. The encyclopedia is accessed more than 300,000 times per week on its principal website at Stanford University and three mirror sites at universities in Sydney, Amsterdam, and Leeds.
This resource is a unique, transformative model for scholarly publishing. All 10 UC campuses agreed to support SEP by joining Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy International Association (SEPIA), a membership organization of libraries throughout the world. To cover the annual costs of administering and supporting this volunteer effort, Stanford University has partnered with the Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET), the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC), the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), and Indiana University Libraries for the purpose of building a protected operating fund for the SEP. While the library organizations through memberships in SEPIA attempt to raise $3 million for the SEP over the course of three years (primarily from libraries at academic institutions offering degrees in philosophy), Stanford hopes to raise $1.125 million from private individuals and corporations during that same time period. The SEP would then live off the interest on that $4.125 million fund.
The National Endowment for the Humanities has endorsed and supported Stanford’s efforts by awarding the library organizations (SOLINET, ICOLC, and SPARC) a $500,000 Challenge Grant in December 2004. Library organizations have raised $1.5 million from their member libraries (i.e., half of their $3 million goal) and the NEH has contributed $500,000, bringing the libraries to two-thirds of their fund-raising goal.
Nearly 40 University of California professors have contributed to SEP, and several serve on the Editorial Board. In December 2005, SEP was awarded “Best Content” by the Charleston Advisor.
Worldwide access is at http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html.
4. 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.
c. About CDLINFO
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