CDLINFO LISTSERV, March 29, 2001, Vol.4, No.5
CONTENTS
- CDL-Hosted Databases Transition Update
- New Resources Available
- Mary Ann Liebert Journals
- MD Consult
- MEDLINE/HealthSTAR Regeneration 2001
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about CDLINFO
1. CDL-Hosted Databases Transition Update
Public Web Site
A public web site that provides information on the transition of the CDL-hosted databases to new vendor web interfaces is now available. It includes a timeline and detailed information in the form of frequently asked questions[http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlhosteddatabases.html]. Please refer patrons to this site to learn more about the transition process.Campus Meetings
Transition Steering Committee (TSC) members have already begun coordinating meetings with library staff and faculty and graduate students. In addition, CDL staff Laine Farley and Ellen Meltzer have begun visiting the campuses to discuss the A & I transition. The purpose of the meetings is to provide a forum for dissemination of information about the database transition process and to address concerns and gather feedback. Another goal of the meetings is to provide library staff with information so that they can more effectively initiate discussions with their faculty and students about the upcoming transitions. Please contact your TSC member to find out about meetings on your campus.TSC Members:
Peter Brueggeman (UCSD)
Andrea Duda (UCSB)
Min-Lin Fang (UCSF)
Cheryl Gomez (UCSC)
Gabriella Gray (UCLA)
Robert Heyer-Gray (UCD)
Patricia Iannuzzi (UCB)
John Ober (CDL)
Cathy Palmer (UCI)
John Tanno (UCR)
Laine Farley, ex officio (A&I Transition Project Manager)
Ellen Meltzer, ex officio (CDL Sr. Associate for Education, Usability and Outreach)
2. 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. Mary Ann Liebert Journals
The CDL has licensed the Mary Ann Liebert journals [http://www.liebertonline.com/], a smaller publisher whose primary focus is in the areas of biomedical research and clinical medicine. Online access is provided via the CatchWord platform. Currently 36 journals offer full text access, with additional full text journals to be added during 2001. This Tier 2 contract was negotiated initially by Anne Prussing (UCSD) on behalf of the UC Health Science Selectors. Mary Ann Liebert access is available to all 9 campuses.b. MD Consult
A Tier 2 license for access to MD Consult [http://home.mdconsult.com/groups/calibraries1122.html], an online clinical information resource, is now available for Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego and San Francisco. These seven campuses share access for 50 simultaneous users to its full text of selected medical texts, articles in selected medical journals, practice guidelines, drug information, and patient handouts. Anne Prussing (UCSD) negotiated the Tier 2 license on behalf of the UC Health Sciences Selectors Group.NOTE: Users need to click the "Open Generic Edition" button to gain access or follow the instructions under the "Personal Edition" section to create an individual account.
3. MEDLINE/HealthSTAR Regeneration 2001
NLM has begun sending new MEDLINE records to CDL and we are now loading these into our MEDLINE/HealthSTAR database. Users with Updates will begin to see new records this week. Please remember that CDL's MEDLINE coverage is NOT the same as PubMED's coverage. CDL does not load OldMEDLINE or PreMEDLINE records. See the NLM Technical Bulletin for more information on the differences between PubMed and MEDLINE. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd99/nd99_scope.htmlThe CDL version of MEDLINE will continue to use the 2000 MeSH records. CDL will not be loading the 2001 MeSH headings. When you do a browse search, you will be browsing the year 2000 MeSH headings. MeSH terms that are new for 2001 will not be included, however, you can search on these new terms by doing a Keyword (KW) search in the Telnet and Web interfaces. This means that you may get slightly different sets of items retrieved if you do the same search on CDL's version of MEDLINE/HealthSTAR and on PubMed or other versions of MEDLINE.
Interface changes for CDL version of MEDLINE/HealthSTAR.
- Unique ID (UI) & PUBMED Identifier (PMID)
Sometime in 2001 NLM will no longer use the UI. Instead they will be using a PMID. The CDL display label will become "Unique ID/ PMID:" in the web interface, and UI/PMID in the telnet interface. Both UI's and PMID's will be in the same index. FIND UI will be a synonym for FIND PMID. The TAG will remain AN. - New fields from NLM
NLM is adding some new non-MeSH subject fields to MEDLINE. These new fields will be searched in the Keyword (KW) and Subject word (SW) indexes. Note: The SW index appears only in telnet interface. These will display as subjects. NLM expects to begin populating these fields some time in 2001. Although we do not yet have sample data or even examples of the content of these fields, the field names are fairly self-explanatory as to the possible content.
Personal Name as Subject
Procurement Source
Sponsoring Agency
Space Flight Mission
- Abstracts
NLM says that abstracts may be multiply-occurring in the future. If this is the case, then users will see multiple abstracts. In addition to the MEDLINE abstract other abstracts found may also be added in MEDLINE records in the future. These could be abstracts that are added by outside producers or, perhaps, consumer-directed abstracts that some journals are beginning to include.
4. 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
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