CDLINFO LISTSERV, March 13, 2003 Vol.6 No. 5 Issue
CONTENTS
- New Resources Available
- Berkeley Electronic Press Journals (bepress)
- Open Access Journals
- eScholarship Repository Reaches Major Milestones
- Using Citation Management Software Web Page
- Library Staff News
- The CDL Welcomes Peter Brantley; Thanks John Ober (Dan Greenstein)
- Ravikumar Gudipati Joins Access Programming Group
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about CDLINFO
1. 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. Berkeley Electronic Press Journals (bepress)
Endorsed by the CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections, four additional journals from the Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) have been licensed for all campuses by the CDL. In addition to the valuable content these journals represent, the decision to license them was influenced by a desire to support bepress's innovative models of scholarly communication. A number of UC faculty serve as editors for these new reasonably priced journals.
The CDL's three-year agreement (2002-2004) for bepress titles included twelve economics titles in three series. Two additional economics journals are now available and have been added to the agreement:
Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization: http://www.bepress.com/jafio
Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics: http://www.bepress.com/snde (Note that this was previously published by MIT Press)
In addition to the economics titles, the CDL's agreement with bepress now also includes a political science and an engineering title:
The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics: http://www.bepress.com/forum
International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering: http://www.bepress.com/ijcre
Additional information on bepress can be found at: http://www.bepress.com
2. Open Access Resources
The CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC), in consultation with campus bibliographers, has completed the first round of identifying open access resources (i.e., freely available non-licensed resources) suitable for cataloguing (by the Shared Cataloguing Program; and to be included in the CDL Directory) and linking (UC-eLinks).
The purpose of this investment is to support open access models of scholarly communication by integrating these resources via the same tools as paid resources. To be considered for cataloguing/linking, open access ejournals must be included in major abstracts or indexes. Such journals should be recommended to JSC liaisons with confirmation of indexing. Such recommendations need not be confined to JSC bibliographer semi-annual surveys. The JSC also recommended cataloging several sets (at the individual title level) of monographs and reports (e.g., Making of America, Rand Corporation Reports). Shared Cataloguing has begun cataloguing the first set of open access resources; they will be included in the CDL Directory and UC-eLinks in the coming weeks.
See previous CDLINFO article (September 12, 2002, Vol.5, No.16 http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo091202.html#3) for further background information.
3. eScholarship Repository Reaches Major Milestones
The eScholarship Repository <http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/> has reached several major milestones since its launch in April 2002. The Repository offers University of California faculty a central online location for depositing working papers, technical reports, research results, datasets with commentary, and peer-reviewed series. It is free for scholars to upload papers and free for users to download them. The CDL guarantees persistent access to the content.Nearly 100 UC institutes, departments, research units, and centers from 9 UC campuses have joined the repository. The eScholarship Repository contains 1,200 papers. Users have logged 60,000 full-text downloads of repository scholarship. Usage statistics show that over 95 percent of repository users are coming from outside UC, including 38 countries. This demonstrates the increased visibility the repository offers UC faculty.
A wide range of subjects can be found in the repository, including social science, business, education, humanities, and the sciences. The Anderson School of Management at UCLA, Center for Studies in Higher Education at Berkeley, University of California Energy Institute (a Multi-Campus Research Unit), Economics Department at Santa Barbara, Center for Conservation Biology at Riverside, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at San Diego are just a few of the UC academic departments and research units with repository sites.
The eScholarship Repository also supports peer-reviewed series, which offer scholars an alternative to for-profit journals. The University of California International and Area Studies (UCIAS) Digital Collection <http://repositories.cdlib.org/uciaspubs/> has been available since summer 2002. Further information on starting a repository peer-reviewed series can be found at <http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/peer_review.html>.
The complete March 12, 2003 press release on the eScholarship Repository can be found at <http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/milestones.pdf>. Additional information on the repository is available at <http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/about.html> or through your campus eScholarship liaison <http://escholarship.cdlib.org/liaisons.html>.
4. Using Citation Management Software Web Page
As promised earlier this year, the CDL now has an updated information page, “Using Citation Management Software with Vendor Databases” (previously titled, “The A&I Transition and Citation Management Software”). We have revised it with input from UC library staff and discussions with vendors.
This Web page is available on the CDL public site so that it can be accessed by all users of citation management software: http://www.cdlib.org/news/citman.html
It is also linked to from the Adaptable Outreach and Instructional Materials page <http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/comm/outreach/> from Other Resources, EndNote, ProCite and Reference Manager. Library staff can modify it for their own use at their campuses, if desired.
The document contains the following information:
--Background: steps taken prior to the transition to address this issue
--What is currently working: databases, direct searching, filters, and direct
export, including exceptions, caveats, and cautions
--Known problems, including alternatives if they exist
--How to get help
--How to report problems
The CDL will continue to update this page as the landscape changes in the area of citation management software.
5. Library Staff News
a. The CDL Welcomes Peter Brantley; Thanks John Ober (Dan Greenstein)
I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Brantley to the position of Director of Technologies for the CDL. The Director of Technologies has lead responsibility for the development and management of the technical infrastructure and the technical staff supporting CDL operations. In partnership with co-library staff from the campuses and the wider digital library community, the position also oversees development of new technologies and provides leadership in establishing a technical research agenda.Peter is clearly one of the luminaries in the community of research libraries with significant digital development programs. He is currently Director, Information Technology Services, Division of Libraries and NYU Press at New York University. In that role he has led the deployment of many campus-wide applications including e-reserves, electronic gateways, and web services and has managed digital library development projects of national scope and partnerships. Peter is a participant in the Internet2/Mace Shibboleth project for user authentication and authorization, which has direct implications for digital library services. The Digital Library Federation and the Coalition of Networked Information are partners in the Shibboleth project and Peter has represented NYU in both of those organizations.
Many UC staff will remember and appreciate Peter’s earlier ties to UC. He served as Director of Academic Information Systems at the Library and Center for Knowledge Management at UC San Francisco, and more recently as Director of Computing Services for the College of Letters and Science at Berkeley. The CDL is thrilled to welcome Peter back to the UC community and the west coast. He expects to take up his position on March 24, 2003.
This will mark the conclusion of John Ober’s interim responsibility as Director of CDL Technologies, which he has carried since May 2002 (along with his position as Director of Education and Strategic Innovation). John’s tenure has had the challenges of major technical transitions and expansion. These include the Melvyl-T project, the addition of SFX/UC-eLinks, establishment or redesign of Counting California, the Online Archive of California, and a Consortial Borrowing System, and a renegotiation of data center machine room services. We are extremely thankful for John’s willingness to step into the breach and for the successful and quietly confident nature of his leadership during the recruitment for a permanent director. John will resume full-time attention to education, outreach, evaluation and strategic planning for the CDL and also lend his expertise in those areas to systemwide library planning.
As you have the opportunity, I urge you to welcome Peter to the family of UC libraries and to thank John for a job well done.
b. Ravikumar Gudipati Joins Access Programming Group
Ravikumar Gudipati will be joining the Access Programming Group in the new Programmer/Analyst position on April 7th. Ravi has more than eleven years of experience with software development in the internet environment, working for a diverse group of organizations that include PG&E, Telephia Market Track, Barclays, Hollywood Deluxe Color Lab, Walt Disney, and Minnesota Schools. He has worked extensively with such technologies as Java, Perl, JSP, servlets, RDBMS, and XML to develop a range of web-based applications ranging from such functions as data warehousing to college student and staff administration to circuit management and database conversion.
6. 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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