CDLINFO-L LISTSERV, March 8, 1998; Vol. 1, No. 2

CONTENTS

1. Digital Collections of the CDL
2. The Science, Technology, and Industry Collection (STIC)
3. List of Electronic Journal Collections Available via the Melvyl Web System

Coming in the next issue: CDL Policies Under Discussion

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1. Digital Collections of the CDL

The California Digital Library (CDL) is building a shared digital collection to serve the University's academic information needs. The CDL collection consists of both material licensed by the CDL and electronic collections licensed by selected campuses. We conceive of the CDL as a virtual library. Access to materials in the CDL may vary according to campus location and user affiliation (UC, industry, public library, etc.).

Materials in all the tiers described below are part of the CDL, provided that they are accessible through the CDL Web site using CDL access tools. Materials in Tier 1 will generally be of interest to a discipline in which the CDL is building a collection, with the approval of the Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee. Material in Tiers 2 and 3 might be of interest to any discipline, including those approved for CDL collection building.

Tier 1-- Material that is funded, in whole or in part, by the CDL.

Tier 2-- Material that is funded by two or more campuses.

Tier 3 -- Material that is paid for by only one campus.

As recommended by several advisory groups during the planning process, the Science, Technology, and Industry Collection (STIC) is the first of a series of focused collection development efforts. The CDL also includes additional titles and items outside this subject area.

The Operations and Planning Advisory Group (OPAG), which advises the CDL on issues related to policies, procedures, and operations of the California Digital Library, is now looking at other possibilities, and will make recommendations shortly regarding the next shared digital collection.

2. The Science, Technology, and Industry Collection (STIC)

Initially, the Science, Technology, and Industry Collection will provide broad coverage of a critical mass of publisher-produced digital information in the health, life, and physical sciences, and engineering. To develop its charter collection, the CDL hopes to license or acquire access to over 1,000 science journals in electronic format by the end of 1999. In later phases it will include UC-produced technical reports, patents, preprints and data sets, and other important digital information resources.

Recognizing that both funds for acquiring electronic content and experience with providing access to digital collections are limited, the STIC Task Force has adopted the following collection strategy:

1. To quickly develop the critical mass that past experience suggests is required for faculty acceptance, include, at the outset, high quality journal literature from those publishers who provide coverage of a broad range of disciplines from the life, health, and physical sciences and engineering
2. To begin to create the in-depth collections that are to be a feature of the CDL, add additional journal literature in selected areas as funds permit and as content becomes available. In order to attract industry partners, begin with two of the areas that the University has identified for industry outreach: biotechnology and computer science (information technology).
3. To allow STIC to serve as a laboratory for learning and planning for future CDL collections, gradually add other types of content. Formats other than electronic journals or monographs present a variety of challenging issues; we have much less experience in identifying this literature or in constructing models for service and access. To facilitate our discussion of these issues, we recommend focusing our initial efforts to include other types of content again in the two areas the University has identified for industry outreach: biotechnology and computer science.

   The STIC Task Force, working with campus contacts, has identified publishers to target for the initial collection. A complete list of publishers can be found at the LPAI site. Negotiations to add content from these publishers are underway.

STIC Task Force Members

Alison Bunting, UCLA (abunting@library.ucla.edu)
Beverlee French, CDL (formerly UCD) (bafrench@ucdavis.edu -- this email address will change)
Susan Starr, CDL/UCSD (sstarr@ucsd.edu)

STIC Campus Contacts

Charlene Baldwin, UCR (charlene.baldwin@ucr.edu)
Jo Anne Boorkman, UCD (jaboorkman@ucdavis.edu)
Katie Frohmberg, UCB (katie@library.berkeley.edu)
Julia Gelfand, UCI (jgelfand@uci.edu)
Christy Hightower, UCSD (chightow@ucsd.edu)
Chuck Huber, UCSB (huber@library.ucsb.edu)
Catherine Soehner, UCSC (soehner@cats.ucsc.edu)
Brian Warling, UCSF (warling@library.ucsf.edu)

3. List of Electronic Journal Collections Available via the Melvyl Web System

To facilitate access to the full text of journals from targeted publishers, links have been added to citations in Melvyl abstracting and indexing databases. Using these links, users can go directly from a citation of interest to the full text of the corresponding article. Links to Academic Press, APS, and certain Highwire Press journals may not work at all campus locations because access depends on campus-specific license arrangements.

Note that journal publishers are using UC campus IP addresses to control access to electronic articles. UC users accessing the Melvyl web system from outside of UC campus networks may not be able to view articles at this time. If you have questions about access for your campus, contact a local campus reference librarian.

Links are currently available from:

• Academic Press's IDEAL Service -- Abstracts and full text of 175 journals in the sciences.
• American Physical Society (APS) Journals -- Full text of Physical Review, Physical Review Letters, and Reviews of Modern Physics.
• Highwire Press -- Full text of about 30 proceedings and other publications. Highwire Press is an electronic publisher of works for several scholarly societies and university presses.
• IEEE/IEE Journals and Conference Proceedings -- Page images of publications from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE).
• Project Muse -- Full text of 40 journals in social sciences humanities, and mathematics.
• Springer's LINK Service -- Abstracts and full text of over 200 science journals.

We also have access to the publisher's site for:

• Kluwer Online -- Full text of over 110 journals in philosophy and linguistics, computer science and engineering, biosciences, and business and economics (note that there are no direct article links for Kluwer journals).