CONTENTS
- New Databases
- HarpWeek
- LION
- PCI
- Shared Collections Lists Now Available
- Recommendations of the STIC Task Force
- Digital Library Strategies Forum
- Melvyl Transition Overview Now Available
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about the CDLINFO-L Listserv
1. New Databases
The addition of these databases to CDL's Directory is the result of successful collaboration and co-investment among the campuses and CDL.a. HarpWeek
HarpWeek is an indexed, image database containing cover-to-cover issues of Harper's Weekly from its beginning in 1857 through the end of the Civil War in 1865. Harper's Weekly provided week-to-week coverage and analysis of newsworthy events from all over the world during the last half of the 19th century. In addition, it was the leading illustrated and literary periodical of its time. Harpers Weekly hired the best authors, artists, and cartoonists, as well as reporters, to provide daily frontline coverage of the Civil War. At its peak, circulation exceeded 100,000, and its readership probably exceeded half a million people.The combination of HarpWeek's easy-to-navigate, multi-level search structure and thorough and relevent indexing allows for very precise searching. Users can also basically browse through electronic issues of Harper's Weekly from cover to cover with HarpWeek. Illustrations and ads, as well as articles and essays, can be searched and displayed. Users can also search by literary genre, date, and occupation.
The HarpWeek index will be updated periodically to reflect new information. Please contact: support@HarpWeek.com.Scholarship to report any corrections or commentary.
b. Chadwyck-Healey's Literature Online (LION)
Literature Online contains more than 210,000 texts of poems, plays, and novels in fully searchable SGML format.It provides hypertext links to approximately 15,000 more literary texts on free web sites throughout the Internet and reports on the content and nature of each site indexed.
It contains dictionaries and well-known reference works and bibliographies in the field of English and American literature, including works not previously available electronically.
It provides easy structured access to discussion groups, electronic journals, meta-pages, author pages, general literary web sites, and library catalogs in English and American literature.
Literary Texts reside in the following fields:
- English Poetry: Essentially the complete English poetic canon from 600 to 1900. Over 165,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.
- English Drama: A combination of Chadwyck-Healey's English Verse Drama and English Prose Drama full-text databases. 4,000 plays by 700 authors from the late 13th century to the early 20th century.
- Early English Prose Fiction: Over 200 complete works in fictional prose from the period 1500-1700, by writers from the British Isles.
- Editions and Adaptation of Shakespeare: Eleven major editions from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, 24 separate contemporary printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha, and related works and over 100 adaptations, sequels, and burlesques from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
- The Bible in English: Twenty-one versions of the Bible. In addition to 13 complete Bibles, there are five New Testament works, two Gospel works, and William Tyndale's New Testament, Pentateuch, and Jonah translations.
- The King James 'Authorized' Version: The King James 'Authorized' Version is included in its own right to provide a single Bible for reference purposes.
- 18th-Century Fiction: 77 complete works in English prose from the period 1700-1780, by writers from the British Isles. Includes a scanned version of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and two different editions of Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela and of Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
- American Poetry: Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early 20th century.
- African-American Poetry: Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
c. Chadwyck-Healey's Periodicals Contents Index (PCI)
PCI is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences published since 1770. It covers each periodical comprehensively, from its first issue to 1990/1991. Every article is indexed.The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other Western languages.
Every year, PCI adds records for more than a million articles. It already covers 1,730 journals and includes records for over six and a half million articles. It will grow to encompass 3,500 journals and fifteen million individual articles. You can view all of the titles in the titles list on the PCI website on http://pci.chadwyck.com/.
PCI covers the following subjects:
- Anthropology and Ethnology
- Archaeology and Ancient Civilizations
- Area Studies
- Art and Architecture
- Black Studies
- Economics and Business Studies
- Education
- Geography
- History
- History (American)
- Humanities (General)
- Jewish Studies
- Law
- Library and Information Science
- Linguistics and Philology
- Literature
- Music and Performing Arts
- Philosophy
- Political Science and Public Administration
- Psychology
- Religious Studies
- Social Studies
2. Shared Collections Lists Now Available
Two Shared collections documents -- a list of Licensed Shared Collections and a list of participants in each license -- are now publicly available. From the CDL home page, click on "About Collections and Services". Then, in the "About the CDL" section (http://www.cdlib.org/about/collections.html), click on either "California Digital Library Collection" or "CDL Licensed Resource Participants" in the "links" box in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. The files are in PDF format (requiring the Acrobat reader to view).These files also continue to be available from the Shared Collections page at (http:// www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll).
3. Recommendations of the STIC Task Force
The STIC Task Force has compiled a list of journal publishers with whom UC and CDL will concentrate its licensing negotiations in the first half of 1999. The following list is in addition to the ongoing trials and negotiations with Elsevier, Springer, Kluwer, and the Institute of Physics. The Task Force took into consideration information already gathered on the faculty and task force priority publishers about the readiness of product and institutional business models in determining these priorities.As information is collected about publishers in the list, the Task Force may make adjustments and reconsiderations in priorities. For more information, see the Shared Collections files at (http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll). A new consolidated list of publishers will soon be posted there which represents the faculty and STIC Task Force priorities. It will show the status of the publishers vis-a-vis our interests.
For January-June 1999, CDL will be actively working with (or, in some cases, recontacting):
- Academic (sitewide)
- American College of Physicians
- American Mathematical Society
- American Society for Microbiology
- Blackwell Scientific
- Cell Press
- Cold Spring Harbor
- Company of Biologists
- Current Biology (via Elsevier)
- Current Opinions (possibly via Lippincott)
- Lippincott/Williams & Wilkins
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Rockefeller University Press
- Wiley
It should be noted that Highwire Press is partly a publisher and partly an aggregator. In some cases, Highwire titles must be negotiated with their own publishers. CDL and the Task Force will continue to monitor the status of Highwire titles.
The STIC Task Force has recommended that CDL continue to focus on journal licensing. The only reference tool recommended for ongoing negotiation is SciFinder Scholar.
4. Digital Library Strategies Forum
In part inspired by the successful "DLA Updates," but different in scope and structure, the CDL is hosting in-person forums -- one in the north and one in the south -- directed at UC library staff and select others. We hope to make this the first in a regular series of Digital Library Strategies forums.We are striving to structure this first forum, set for late March, as a participative way to
- Share information about digital library goals, strategies, and activities (broadly defined) across UC;
- Discover and create opportunities to continue and deepen collaboration; and
- Communicate critical information about activities of the CDL
Due to space constraints, participation cannot be open to all UC library staff or to the general public. Each campus is selecting participants who can bring diverse views to the forum and report forum discussions back to their campus colleagues.
Participants and others interested are advised to consult http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/forum/ for more details.
5. Melvyl Transition Overview Now Available
With a constantly growing collection of resources, and new and evolving tools to use them, the historical distinction between a monolithic "Melvyl System" and "everything else" is less and less useful to describe UC-shared digital collections. The graphics and location changes that took place in conjunction with the January 20th CDL opening were the initial steps in a transition that will create a distinction between the Melvyl Union Catalog and other content, services, and tools.The "Melvyl Transition Overview" (available at http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/) describes CDL activities for this transition and provides a checklist of local activities to consider. The document has been distributed to the User Services Group (USG), Systemwide Operations and Planning Group (SOPAG), and Heads of Public Services (HOPS). Those groups and other interested are encouraged to share concerns and advice about managing this transition.
6. For More Information
a. CDL News
Several items of interest, including "Milestones," "Highlights 1997-1998," and "What's New" are now posted on the CDL informational web site (http://www.cdlib.org/) under News and Developments. Please share news of this resource with your colleagues!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 the CDLINFO-L Listserv
The CDLINFO-L Listserv 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 Listserv 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: Please send the following line to listserv@listserv.ucop.edu: SUBSCRIBE CDLINFO-L (your name)
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@ucop.edu.