CDLINFO LISTSERV, February 14, 2000, Vol.3, No.2

CONTENTS

1. Links to Full Content: Progress Report
   1. Article-level Links
   2. Journal-level Links
   3. Elsevier Links: Correction
2. Chemical Abstracts and CAS REACT via SciFinder Scholar Now Available!
3. HSCI Changes
4. Update on the RFP Process for CDL-Hosted Databases
5. Digital Library Strategy Discussions
6. Shared Digital Cataloging Begins
7. Chiefs of Bibliographic Groups: Correction
8. For More Information
   1. CDL News
   2. Contacts for Questions or Problems
   3. Information about CDLINFO

---

1. Links to Full Content: Progress Report

a. Article-level Links

Beginning on February 3, article-level links appear in displays of article records in the CDL-hosted A&I databases for journals published by Blackwell, Institute of Physics, JSTOR, and Wiley.

b. Title-level Links

Beginning on February 3, title-level links are provided for PIR support for journals published by The Company of Biologists and Kluwer. These links do not display in the CDL Web interface. The CDL now offers 2432 journals with article-level and/or journal-level linking support.

c. Elsevier Links: Correction

In the last issue of CDLINFO (3:1), Elsevier article-level and journal-level links were incorrectly attributed to the California Periodicals database. These links were recently activated from the CDL-hosted A&I databases. They have been in the PE databases for some time, if campuses have added that information to their PE records.

---

2. Chemical Abstracts & CAS REACT via SciFinder Scholar now available!

As announced in the CDL Alert on February 4th, UC students, faculty, and staff at all nine campuses can search Chemical Abstracts (1967- ), Registry (chemical structure searching), and CAS REACT from their personal workstations via SciFinder Scholar. UCLA's Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry is providing a Web site for access to SciFinder Scholar's client software at [ http://dirac.chem.ucla.edu/scifind ].

Access from valid UC IP addresses is almost 24 hours a day, 7 days a Week -- the system is unavailable from 3pm (PST) Saturday to 5am (PST) Sunday for maintenance activities. Our agreement allows 18 simultaneous users to access these databases. Users should logout when their search session is completed. CAS's SciFinder Scholar requires a downloaded client for either Apple Macintosh or MS Windows. UC users have greeted SciFinder Scholar's long-awaited arrival with enthusiastic comments.

"I downloaded SciFinder Scholar and I checked it out. It works perfectly and complements nicely the Beilstein search engine."
- Chemistry, Faculty, UCSD

"I tried SciFinder Scholar and found it is VERY useful. Before we normally used INSPEC, which does not cover some chemistry journals. Now, with SciFinder Scholar, these two systems will complement each other to cover full spectrum of the chemistry and chemical engineering field."
- Chemical Engineering, Graduate Student, UCLA

"I am delighted to hear that UC is getting SciFinder Scholar. This will be very important for our teaching and research efforts."
- Chemistry, Faculty, UCI

"It's too cool!"
- Chemistry, Faculty, UCLA

"Yesterday I downloaded the SciFinder Scholar system and found all my publications since 1967."
- Chemistry, Faculty, UCSD

SciFinder Scholar's client software provides simple point and click access to the CAS databases including Chemical Abstracts, Registry, and CAS REACT. No special training or knowledge of search command languages are required. Users may search more than 19 million citations to the chemistry literature by topic, author, CAS Registry Number, patent number, and CAS abstract number. More than 22 million chemical substances may be searched by chemical name, chemical structure, CAS Registry Number, and formula. Reaction information for organic and organometallic reactions from the CAS REACT database is included.

Additional details, including hardware and software requirements as well as search examples, are available from SciFinder Scholar via UCLA's Web site at [ http://dirac.chem.ucla.edu/scifind ] CDL's Resource Liaison for SciFinder Scholar is Marion Peters at UCLA. She is working with CAS to link our electronic journal subscriptions and the California Periodicals database holdings to the SciFinder Scholar references.

Questions regarding SciFinder Scholar should be directed to campus contacts. CAS will work with the campus contacts to set up training sessions.

SciFinder Scholar Campus Contacts:

UC Los Angeles
Marion Peters
CDL Resource Liaison for CAS/SciFinder Scholar
UCLA Science & Engineering Library
mpeters@library.ucla.edu

UC Berkeley
Mary Ann Mahoney
Chemistry Library
mmahoney@library.berkeley.edu

UC Davis
Carol La Russa
Physical Sciences & Engineering Library
cjlarussa@ucdavis.edu

UC Irvine
April Love
Science Library
mlove@uci.edu

UC Riverside
Julie Mason
Science Library
julie.mason@ucr.edu

UC Santa Barbara
Chuck Huber
Davidson Library
huber@library.ucsb.edu

UC Santa Cruz
Catherine Soehner
Science Library
soehner@cats.ucsc.edu

UC San Diego
Deborah Kegel
Science & Engineering Library
dkegel@ucsd.edu

UC San Francisco
David Owen
Library
owen@library.ucsf.edu

---

3. HSCI Changes

RLG's History of Science & Technology database is now the History of Science, Technology, & Medicine database. This resource includes four international bibliographies:

Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science
Coverage: 1975-present
Source: the History of Science Society (HSS)
Updated: 4,500 records annually

Current Bibliography in the History of Technology
Coverage: 1987-present
Source: the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
Updated with 3,000 records annually

Bibliografia Italiana de Storia della Scienza
Coverage: 1982-present
Source: istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza (IMSS)
Updated: 2,000 records annually

Wellcome Bibliography of the History of Medicine
Coverage: 1982-present
Source: Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine
Updated: 2,200 records quarterly

---

4. Update on the RFP Process for CDL-Hosted Databases

Members of the Steering Committee for the RFP process have organized various forums on their campuses during December and January to provide opportunities for librarians, library staff, faculty, and students to learn about why a replacement for the Melvyl Catalog and other CDL-hosted databases is being considered, and to gather their concerns and suggestions. Meanwhile, CDL staff have been re-organizing and editing the RFP draft to reflect the committee's recommendation to offer three alternatives to potential bidders. A vendor may choose to bid on the union catalog database server, the abstracting and indexing database server, and/or the user interface. This flexibility will also allow the CDL and reviewers more options for assessing a reasonable strategy and timetable for replacement, if a decision is made to move forward.

The draft RFP will go to the all-campus groups (HOPS, HOTS, LTAG, CDC, and RSC) the week of February 14. These groups will be asked to canvas experts on their campuses and provide a response to specific sections of the RFP (e.g., HOPS will be asked to comment on the user interface section). They may also comment on the document as a whole. Another draft incorporating this round of feedback will be available early in April for a final review before the RFP is completed at the end of April.

In addition, the committee plans to leave up the online survey [ http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/2734/cdlhosted.htm ] through April. Responses are being tabulated at [ http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/melvyl/ ].

---

5. Digital Library Strategy Discussions

The CDL and various working groups and task forces have been engaged in many discussion sessions at the campuses, with more to come. In the fall representatives from the Tools and Services Working Group held meetings at each campus to discuss service possibilities, priorities, and the SearchLiight tool. Those discussions were very helpful not only in releasing SearchLight and planning for its improvement, but also for progress toward establishing additional service priorities.

This month and last members of the Online Public Access Catalog RFP Steering Committee has made visits to each campus to talk with library staff and faculty about the need to consider new catalog technology and discuss crucial features and functionality. An online survey has supported this effort.

Other discussions and events being planned include a workshop on instruction and reference for digital resources, jointly sponsored by the CDL Education Working Group and HOPS and tentatively planned for mid June, a meeting with the CDL Users Council, and a workshop with digital resource liaisons.

Reports from these strategy discussions will be shared widely (and announced here in CDLINFO). Separate regional Digital Library Strategic Forums, such as were held in Spring 1999, are not planned for this year.

---

6. Shared Digital Cataloging Begins

Production of Shared Cataloging records for CDL electronic journals began in January at UCSD under the direction of Crystal Graham. CDL's Beverlee French provides overall coordination of this effort with collections, acquisitions, etc. Rebecca Doherty at the CDL is responsible for file retrieval operations. The Shared Cataloging files of new records will initially be made available as each package is completed by the Shared Cataloging Unit (for pick up via ftp by the campuses). The Shared Cataloging Program pilot already completed the Elsevier titles, about 30% of the CDL-licensed journal titles. Priority will be given first to newly licensed journal packages (e.g., Wiley) and then to legacy packages which represent the most new titles for campuses.

The recently created HOTS subgroup, the Shared Resource Steering Committee, will advise the shared cataloging effort to ensure updating and maintenance of standards and to recommend new classes of items to be cataloged. In addition, a group of Shared Cataloging Program Systems Liaisons (for file retrieval) is in the process of being confirmed as are Shared Cataloging Program Cataloging Liaisons. The Systems Liaisons have operational responsibility for managing the files in coordination with campus practices. The Cataloging Liaisons will respond to the Shared Resource Steering Committee and UCSD as needed and be responsible for distributing information on campus to appropriate staff. In addition, a general listserv will be established [ SCP-L@ucop.edu ] for any library staff interested in issues for broad discussion and for questions raised in the Shared Cataloging Program. Finally, relevant documents will be posted on a website that will link from [ http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/ ].

For immediate questions on cataloging, contact Becky Culbertson at UCSD (rculbertson@ucsd.edu); for questions on file retrieval, contact Rebecca Doherty at CDL (rebecca.doherty@ucop.edu).

---

7. Chiefs of Bibliographic Groups: Correction

In the last issue of CDLINFO (3:1), the education vocabulary specialist should have been listed as Lorna Lueck (SB) instead of Barbara Glendenning.

---

8. 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

CDLINFO is designed to inform UC Librarians, and the UC community, about the progress 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 newsletter to faculty, staff, and students on their campuses, as appropriate. More complete information about the CDL, as well as the Directory of Collections and Services which leads to digital resources, is available at the CDL website at http://www.cdlib.org.

Eligible subscribers: UC library employees

To subscribe for email distribution: Please send the following line to listserv@listserv.ucop.edu: SUBSCRIBE CDLINFO-L (your name)

CDLINFO is also published on the web at http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/

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@www.cdlib.org.