CONTENTS
- Catherine Candee named Director of Scholarly Communication Initiatives
- Instruction/Reference Best Practices Workshop
- New CDL Resource Liaisons Appointed
- Web of Science Backfiles Now Available (Beth Weil, UCB)
- IEEE Xplore is Now Available (Camille Wanat, UCB)
- New CDL-hosted Databases Available from the Web (Christine Bunting, UCSC)
- Bibliography of Art (BHA)
- SCIPIO
- New Editor for CDLINFO
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about CDLINFO
1. Catherine Candee named Director of Scholarly Communication Initiatives
We are very pleased to announce that Catherine Candee will assume the new position of Director of Scholarly Communication Initiatives on May 1, 2000. Catherine has a strong commitment to innovation in scholarly communication and a history of working with faculty and scholarly societies toward those innovations. She is currently the head of Stanford's Physics Library and Program Officer for their "Access to Information" Committee.Her immediate priority at the CDL will be to manage and continue development of eScholarship initiatives. eScholarship is a focal point for the University's commitment to influence and support innovations in scholarly communication. It includes the establishment of open archives for scholarly communities based upon an e-print server infrastructure, as well as supporting services and new scholarly products and publications drawn from the archives. More information is at [ http://www.cdlib.org/eschol ].
Catherine brings UC and scholarly publications experience to the position, having also served as UC Berkeley's head of the Astronomy/Math/Statistics Library at UC Berkeley and at one time having developed a publications program for the Institute for Social and Economic Studies in Berkeley. Please join us in welcoming Catherine back to UC and to this important position.
2. Instruction/Reference Best Practices Workshop
The CDL Education Working Group (EWG) and Heads of Public Services (HOPS) are jointly sponsoring a "UC best practices" workshop to address instruction and reference issues for digital resources. In addition to current practices and strategies, the one-day workshop, being scheduled for June 23rd at a Los Angeles Airport Hotel, will also focus on future developments and on mechanisms for strengthening communication and collaboration among instruction and reference staff across the university.The program planning committee - Detrice Bankhead (UCSB), Patrick Dawson (UCSB), Ellen Meltzer (UCB) and John Ober (CDL) - have spoken to many interested and involved staff about the structure of the workshop. Using HOPS and the DLINSTRUCT-L list they will solicit theme-based examples of effective practices to be shared at the workshop. The workshop's tentative agenda is being shared widely and is available in the EWG section of the libstaff web site [ http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/education/ewg/ ].
3. New CDL Resource Liaisons Appointed
Welcome and thank you to the following new Resource Liaisons:Karen Andrews (UCD) - Institute of Physics journals
Joan Ariel (UCI) - Contemporary Women's Issues
Peter Brueggeman (UCSD) - Georef (@Stanford)
Michaelyn Burnette (UCB) - Poole's Plus: The Digital Index of the Nineteenth Century
Michaelyn will also replace Rienhart Sonneberg as the liaison for MLA at the end of March
Christina Campbell (UCB) - Wiley journals
Janice Contini (UCLA) - MEDLINE/HealthStar
Norma Corral (UCLA) - HAPI Online
Andrea Duda (UCSB) - Blackwell Synergy journals
Norma Kobzina (UCB) - Agricola via COS
Karl Kocher (UCD) - Springer-Verlag journals
Lorna Lueck (UCSB) - PsycINFO
Marion Peters (UCLA) - SciFinder Scholar
Kati Radics (UCLA) - FRANCIS
Beth Weil (UCB) - BIOSIS Previews and Current Contents
The Resource Liaisons are the primary contact for their resource regarding issues such as access problems, enhancement requests, usability issues, and content. Please continue to use the CDL feedback form or CDL Helpline to report any immediate technical problems.
The CDL Resource Liaisons annual meeting will be held Wednesday, March 29 in Oakland.
4. Web of Science Backfiles Now Available (Beth Weil, UCB)
CDL has negotiated a backfile purchase providing all campuses with data back to 1975 for ISI Citation Databases (via Web of Science): Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). Some campuses (UCB, UCSF, UCSB) have access to SCI and SSCI data back to 1970. Merced ownership will now also be added to the WoS license for all files through 2000.Berkeley
SCI(1970-) SSCI(1970-) AHCI(1975-)
Davis
SCI(1975-) SSCI(1975-) AHCI (1975-)
Irvine
SCI(1975-) SSCI(1975-) AHCI(1975-)
Los Angeles
SCI(1975-) SSCI(1975-) AHCI(1975-)
Riverside
SCI(1975-) SSCI(1975-) AHCI(1975-)
Santa Barbara
SCI(1970-) SSCI(1970-) AHCI(1975-)
Santa Cruz
SCI(1975-) SSCI(1975-) AHCI(1975-)
San Diego
SCI(1975-) SSCI(1975-) AHCI(1975-)
San Francisco
SCI(1970-) SSCI(1970-) AHCI(1975-)
5. IEEE Xplore is Now Available (Camille Wanat, UCB)
UC now has access to IEEE Xplore, a browse and search interface providing full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE standards. It also includes IEE publications for the same time period. [IEEE is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; IEE is its British counterpart: the Institution of Electrical Engineers.] IEEE Xplore can be found at [ http://www.ieee.org/ieeexplore/ ]. Full text is currently provided in PDF format and future plans include the provision of IEEE journal articles in HTML format from 1996 forward (in addition to the pdf) and interactive reference linking to IEEE articles. [The HTML content will be loaded in phases during 2000.]Links to IEEE/IEE publications from the CDL-hosted INSPEC database will continue as before and searching via INSPEC will remain the best overall approach for UC users who wish to cast a wider net than IEEE/IEE publications alone. UC's access to IEEE Xplore is in addition to its traditional access to IEEE/IEE publications via links in the CDL-hosted INSPEC database.
6. New CDL-hosted Databases Available from the Web (Christine Bunting, UCSC)
a. Bibliography of Art (BHA)
The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) is the most comprehensive art history bibliography available. It includes abstracted articles from 2,500 international periodicals, books, conference proceedings, collected essays, exhibition and art dealer's catalogs and dissertations. The date coverage begins in 1973.BHA's half-million records cover the art of Europe and the Americas from late antiquity to the modern period in a wide range of media, including architecture and industrial design, painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, decorative and applied arts, and popular and folk art.
BHA is produced in collaboration by the Getty Research Institute and the French Institute de l'Information Scientifique du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, BHA's broad scholarly focus makes it the primary reference for those studying art history as well as an important resource for researchers in many other fields looking for access to information on artistic culture.
Strong indexing in such areas as art historiography, archaeological and antiquarian literature, area and cultural studies, critical theory, as well as professional literature in art librarianship and visual resources curatorship, make it an especially rich resource.
b. SCIPIO
SCIPIO, the art and rare book catalog, originally a cooperative project of several libraries (the acronym stands for Sales Catalog Index Project Input Online), was formed to help researchers identify annually published auction catalogs; in its enriched form it now is a particularly valuable resource for those seeking information on the provenance of art objects and rare books, connoisseurship, the history of collecting and collectors, historical and contemporary market trends, and the relationship between art and economics.SCIPIO is touted by RLG as the "only online union catalog of auction catalog records in existence." Art and rare book auction sales catalogs dating from 1599 to currently scheduled auctions can be searched. Important private sales as well as sale catalogs from all major European and North American auction houses are covered in subject areas of world art from all time periods, books and manuscripts, painting, sculpture, drawing, prints and photographs, furniture, decorative and applied arts, musical instruments, and objets d'art.
7. New Editor for CDLINFO
Thanks are due to CDL staff member Nancy Gussack for her steady hand in editing CDLINFO over the past 18 months. With her departure for a new job, editorship of CDLINFO is being assumed by Rosalie Lack. If your questions about the newsletter are not answered by the "For More Information" item at the bottom of each issue, please contact Rosalie (Rosalie.Lack@ucop.edu).8. For More Information
a. CDL News
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b. Contacts for Questions or Problems
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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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