CDLINFO Newsletter, April 8, 2004, Vol. 7, No. 7
CONTENTS
- Current Contents to be Deselected
- Library Staff News
- Suzanne Samuel is the new Digital Preservation Project Manager
- Dayna Holz Joins the CDL
- For More Information
- News and Publications
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- About CDLINFO
1. Current Contents to be Deselected
The Current Contents database has been added to the list of two other journal article databases (the Computer Database and National Newspaper Index) that are being deselected by the UC libraries. Current Contents will be cancelled as of January 2005. The Computer Database and the National Newspaper Index will be cancelled as of July 2004.
These cuts are necessary because the UC Resource Sharing Fund was reduced substantially for 2003/04 and subsequent years. The UC campus libraries made their decisions under the direction of the University Librarians in consultation with the Collection Development Committee (CDC) and the CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC).
There is a 100 percent content overlap of Current Contents in the larger Web of Science database (both Current Contents and Web of Science are ISI databases). Users who search Current Contents will get much more content by searching Web of Science.
The CDL and Resource Liaison Beth Weil (UC Berkeley) have negotiated for free alerts and additional ports in Web of Science. Beth is analyzing turn away data before the final group of ports is allocated. Information about setting up alerts is available at: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/instruct/alerts.html
See http://www.cdlib.org/inside/collect/deselection.html for more detailed information.
2. Library Staff News
a. Suzanne Samuel is the new Digital Preservation Project Manager
Since last fall, Suzanne Samuel has been devoting a growing percentage of her time to the CDL's preservation program, an arrangement devised to free her up to serve ultimately as its full-time project manager. That time has arrived, and on April 1 this transition was formally completed. Suzanne has (meticulously) transferred her eScholarship program coordinator responsibilities and assumed her new role as Project Manager, Digital Preservation, reporting to Trisha Cruse. Suzanne will surely bring to her preservation work the same intelligence and conscientiousness that she invested in eScholarship. Congratulations, Suzanne!
b. Dayna Holz Joins the CDL
The CDL is very pleased to welcome Dayna Holz, who began working with us on the eScholarship Repository on April 1. Dayna came to us via bepress to work half-time on the eScholarship Repository's newest program -- an open-access post-print repository for UC faculty authors.
Dayna is concurrently employed at UC Berkeley's Environmental Design Archives, where she manages image digitization projects, creates metadata using GenDB, does original cataloging, encodes finding aids, maintains web pages, and processes and inventories personal and faculty papers. Dayna has recently completed her graduate studies in information science with a focus on archives and copyright law; she will be at the CDL on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
3. For More Information
a. News and Publications
News and events, press releases, reports and guidelines, and articles published by CDL staff are posted on the CDL web site. Please share news of this resource with your colleagues!
In addition, status information about CDL resources, reports, and working documents of particular interest to library staff are available on the Inside CDL web site.
b. Contacts for Questions or Problems
If you have problems accessing CDL resources or have questions, including questions about the status of electronic journal collections and Internet resources, contact the CDL:- 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.
- Or, send an email to cdl@www.cdlib.org.
For information about whether your UC campus has access to a particular electronic journal or Internet resource, contact your local collection development officer.
c. About CDLINFO
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