CDLINFO LISTSERV, February 13, 2003 Vol.6 No. 3 Issue
CONTENTS
- CDL Database Transitions
- Melvyl-T Update
- New Resources Available
- International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) and International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)
- Springer LINK Books/Book Series
- Ejournal Packages Migrate to New Platforms
- Online Archive of California (OAC) Finding Aids Removed from the CDL Directory
- Online Archive of California (OAC) Electronic Text Search/Browse Available
- East Asian Digital Resources White Paper Task Force Appointed
- "LibStaff" Website Redesign: Survey for Library Staff
- Statistics Summary Reports Available
- Library Staff News
- Heather Christenson Joins the CDL as Resource Liaison
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about CDLINFO
1. CDL Database Transitions
a. Melvyl-T Update
As many readers are aware the CDL announced earlier that there would be a rollout of Melvyl-T to library staff in January 2003. On February 5th CDL University Librarian Greenstein sent a message to campus ULs acknowledging the missed timeline and providing an update that included the following information.
Because of the size of the Melvyl catalog and the large number of catalog record sources, many challenges have been undertaken by Ex Libris, the supplier of Melvyl-T software, for the first time. A definite "switch to production" date agreed upon by all parties has, on at least four occasions, been moved by a month or more owing to challenges Ex Libris' has faced in record merging programs, indexing programs, and application performance under simulated user load.
Ex Libris has responded to CDL requests to devote additional resources to the Melvyl-T project. There is evidence that the few remaining challenges will be addressed and Melvyl-T made available in mid-Spring. While clearly not ideal, particularly from the point of view of preparing campus staff and education/outreach efforts, this outcome will yield an overlap period of 3 to 4 months with both legacy Melvyl and Melvyl-T in operation. We understand that a longer overlap period would allow more preparatory time for library staff and a gentler migration for users. However, as the recent transition to vendor-supplied journal article citation databases has demonstrated, we also know that users are resilient and able to move forward once their main concerns are addressed.
Meanwhile the CDL is directing efforts to investigate the costs and feasibility of extending legacy Melvyl beyond the planned retirement date of July 1, 2003, should it prove necessary. This could provide a contingency for maintaining service if Ex Libris is unable to complete Melvyl-T in a timely fashion. However, an extension to Melvyl requires extensions to mainframe software and hardware maintenance contracts, renegotiating for data center services, loading record updates into two systems, and maintaining or finding backup expertise for decades-old programs. The considerable expense of extending legacy Melvyl is difficult to contemplate in these times of budgetary constraints.
Regular updates will be provided to UC library administrations, advisory groups, and others. In any case, the CDL's goal remains the same as it has always been - through partnership with the UC libraries to deliver a union catalog of the highest quality that serves the needs of UC and beyond.
2. New Resources 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 list of recently added content is always available at: http://www.cdlib.org/news/whatsnew.html
a. International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) and International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)
International Index to Music Periodicals full text (IIMP-FT) ( http://iimpft.chadwyck.com) and International Index to the Performing Arts full text (IIPA-FT) (http://iipaft.chadwyck.com) are now available for all campuses.
UC bibliographers have recommended access to these two Chadwyck-Healey products every year that the Joint Steering Committee (JSC) has surveyed their priorities. The Joint Steering Committee recommended that the CDL pursue licenses for these products as part of the larger ProQuest newspaper package. The CDL licensed perpetual access to the IIMP and IIPA indexing/abstracting databases through 2003. The CDL has funded a subscription to the next five years of access to the indexes. In 2008, all campuses will co-invest in annual license fees for the indexing/abstracting content.
ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey does not own the perpetual rights for the full text, but, at the recommendation of the JSC, the CDL has paid the access fees for five-year subscriptions for both full-text files.
b. Springer LINK Books/Book Series
Three additional Books/Book Series are now available in full text at the Springer LINK site. New for 2003 are:Lecture Notes in Mathematics
Lecture Notes in Physics. Monographs
Topics in Current Genetics
These three series join the list of Springer series and books currently licensed by the CDL. The full list of titles, available at http://link.springer-ny.com/ol/index.htm (click on Books/Book Series), includes:
Advances in Biochemical Engineering/ Biotechnology
Advances in Polymer Science
Advances in Solid State Physics
Handbook of Environmental Chemistry
Landolt Boernstein New Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences
Lecture Notes in Physics
Molecular Sieves
Optical & Fiber Communications Reports
Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science
Prokaryotes, The
Springer Tracts in Modern Physics
Structure and Bonding
Topics in Applied Physics
Topics in Applied Chemistry
Topics in Organometallic Chemistry
3. Ejournal Packages Migrate to New Platforms
With 2003, three major e-journal packages have migrated to different online platforms. Technical staff in Oakland and the shared catalogers have been busy updating all links so users will be taken directly to the new sites.
Academic Press
The integration of Academic Press and Harcourt Health Sciences journals from
the Academic IDEAL platform onto ScienceDirect is now complete. The migration
of the journals began May 25, 2002 and we had dual access through December 2002.
Effective January 2003, the IDEAL site is no longer hosting content. From now
until July 1, 2003, IDEAL links are automatically redirecting to ScienceDirect.
The URL for ScienceDirect is http://www.sciencedirect.com
.
Blackwell Publishing
In January 2002, Blackwell Academic Publishers, Blackwell Science and Munksgaard
merged to form Blackwell Publishing. The Blackwell Academic journals, primarily
social science and humanities titles, remained on the Ingenta platform for the
2002 calendar year. With 2003 the social sciences and humanities titles have
migrated to the Synergy platform, joining the Blackwell Science and Munksgaard
journals.
Journals on Synergy can be accessed using standard web browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, version 4.0 and above. For best results use version 5.0 or above. The full text of articles can be viewed in HTML and printed in PDF (Portable Document Format).
The URL for Blackwell Synergy is http://www.blackwell-synergy.com .
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Beginning with the 2003 subscription year, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins' online
journals are available to institutional customers solely through the Ovid platform.
LWW and Ovid, sister companies within Wolters Kluwer International Health and Science, sees the move as an opportunity to offer an expanded range of research capabilities. Dual access to the LWW journals, both at LWW's publisher site and HighWire platform, will continue through March 2003. After March 31, full text access to the journals will be available solely through journals@Ovid . Because Ovid is still in the process of loading the files, UC-eLinks will continue to offer Ovid and LWW links (which are only at the journal title level) through March.
4. OAC Finding Aids Removed from the CDL Directory
As of Thursday, February 13, 2003, the CDL will be taking the formal step of removing OAC finding aids from the CDL Directory. Established in 1998, the CDL Directory allows users to browse and search through the CDL's extensive collections of digital resources, including electronic journals and databases. The Directory is an excellent place to start if you wish to see if a certain electronic journal or database is available.
The removal of the OAC finding aids was discussed by the SOPAG Task Force on Access Integration. Page 16 of the Task Force's final report http://www.slp.ucop.edu/sopag/TFAIReport1.pdf states "the OAC finding aids do not have catalog records at present, but OAC is in the process of developing minimum-level MARC records for all OAC finding aids. While there is some disagreement as to whether the finding aids should continue to be reflected in the Directory, they should certainly be in the catalog (and, by extension, in the Online Resources Collection (logical base) of Melvyl-T)." UC Libraries are expected to create collection-level records of OAC finding aids for inclusion in Melvyl.
Future releases of Searchlight or its replacement can be directed at OAC resources (full text of finding aids and electronic texts as well as image metadata) allowing users to discover these materials alongside other topically related online resources.
Please note that CDL Directory headings will no longer be required in finding aids and the OAC EAD Best Practice Guidelines (OAC BPG) will be modified in the near future to reflect this change.
Please direct questions to Robin Chandler: robin.chandler@ucop.edu or 510-987-0370.
5. Online Archive of California (OAC) Electronic Text Search/Browse Available
The Online Archive of California (OAC) http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ has made available a new electronic text search and browse feature. The electronic text search and browse addition is part of a series of "soft releases" as OAC continues to broaden and enhance access to content, including oral histories, documents, images and finding aids. In October 2002, the OAC provided a prototype image search and browse feature designed to meet the needs of users seeking direct access to online content associated with finding aids (see CDLINFO, Vol. 5, No. 19 http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo103102.html#3).
Upon visiting the OAC home page, users have the option of searching or browsing from three different kinds of content formats: finding aids, images, or texts. Using tabs at the top of the screen, users are then passed to their interface of choice, each one designed to provide access to a unique type of content. With this new release, the OAC now provides access to an expanded group of oral histories, letters, and newspapers that were previously only accessible through the UC Berkeley Library Sunsite. Text content from the Regional Oral History Office (http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/), the Free Speech Movement Digital Archive (http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/FSM/ ) and the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Project - literally hundreds of documents - now complement the Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (http://jarda.cdlib.org/) text content previously available through the OAC's former Dynaweb interface. This new release features keyword searching across all texts, keyword searching within a single text, and the ability to browse text content according to a project topic.
Please try out these new features, and give us feedback via the links at the bottom of most pages.
6. East Asian Digital Resources White Paper Task Force Appointed
Responding to a proposal from the San Diego campus, and with endorsement and leadership by the UC Collection Development Committee, the CDL has appointed an East Asian Digital Resources White Paper Task Force. The Task Force will report to Beverlee French, CDL Director for Shared Content and the CDL Joint Committee on Shared Collections. Task Force members are:Cathy Chiu, UCSB, Chair, and Liaison to the East Asian Bibliographers group
Karl Lo, CDL, Convener for the first meeting/Responsible for research and development
of the final report
Jean Han, UCB (Chinese collections)
Mikyung Kang, UCLA (Korean collections)
Sanae Isozumi (UCSD, Japanese collections)
The task force will also consult with the UC East Asian Bibliographers' group regarding their strategy and recommendations. The CDL is providing funds for Karl Lo, Director of International Programs (ret.), UCSD Libraries, to work on the project at 20% time through June.
The White Paper will state where UC is in the development of an East Asian Digital Library, what resources it should contain, what technical support will be needed to sustain it, and how much these resources and supporting services might cost. The document will have three snapshots and a list of recommendations. The snapshots are (1) Global resources on East Asia; (2) UC ownership of and accessibility to these resources; and (3) needs of UC scholars. The list of recommendations will include infrastructure building; intellectual property; resource development; training; funding and other issues.
7. "LibStaff" Website Redesign: Survey for Library Staff
CDL is redesigning the CDL Libstaff website ( http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff ) Your input is essential for helping us to improve the site.
An essential first step in the redesign process is understanding how library staff currently use the site. To that end, we've created a brief ten question survey, available at: http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/2734/libstaff.htm. We encourage all library staff to take this short survey, even those who rarely or never use the CDL Libstaff site.
Please take the survey, and encourage as many of your colleagues as possible to take it, too. The survey will be up through Friday, February 28, 2003. Now is the time to let us know your suggestions and ideas about the site so that it best serves your needs!
8. Statistics Summary Reports Available
The latest statistical profile of the CDL is now available from the "About the CDL" publications web page [ http://www.cdlib.org/about/publications/ ] and the Evaluation Activities page [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/education/evaluation/ ], entitled The California Digital Library: Key Indicators of Collections and Use (July 1, 2001 - June 20, 2002).
In addition, reports summarizing usage by database and ejournal publisher and by campus (where provided) are also available on the CDL Libstaff Evaluation Activities page:
- Database Usage (July 1, 2001 - June 20, 2002) (password required)
- Ejournal Usage (July 1, 2001 - June 20, 2002) (password required)
Please contact Rosalie Lack if you have any questions: Rosalie.Lack@ucop.edu
9. Library Staff News
a. Heather Christenson Joins the CDL as Resource Liaison Coordinator/Information Services Analyst
Heather Christenson has joined the CDL as the new Resource Liaison Coordinator/Information Services Analyst in the Digital Library Services group.
Heather was formerly a librarian at the San Francisco Examiner and also worked on the SF Gate web site as a taxonomist. More recently, she was Director of Content for EoEXCHANGE Corp. in San Francisco where she worked with customers such as Forbes, the NBC Olympics, and NASDAQ to develop customized Internet and intranet search services. She also has experience as a cataloger at various special libraries and as research manager for a consulting firm.
Heather's UC connections include a stint as a library assistant in the Government Documents department at UCSD where she earned a BA in Communications. She was a student assistant at UCB's Giannini Foundation Library while earning her MLIS.
10. 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 "What's New" 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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