CDLINFO LISTSERV, April 11, 2002, Vol.5, No.7
CONTENTS
- CDL Database Transitions
- Current Contents and INSPEC via Ovid now Available
- IEEE Journals now are Linked via UC-eLinks
- eScholarship Repository Launched
- Online Archive of California (OAC) Usability Testing
- Counting California New Content--Census 2000 and Vital Statistics
- Library Staff News
- Karen Cargille Retires
- Three New Members of Melvyl-T Team
- Detailed Description Of New Vendor Versions Of Transitioning Databases
- INSPEC via Ovid (Diane Fortner, UCB; Resource Liaison)
- Current Contents via Ovid (Beth Weil, UCB; Resource)
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about CDLINFO
1. CDL Database Transitions
a. Current Contents and INSPEC via Ovid now Available
Current Contents and INSPEC will now be accessible via Ovid's interface, beginning April 11, 2002 with UC-eLinks activated for links to full electronic text and holdings. A link to Request will not be turned on at this time, since the level of detail necessary for this service to operate smoothly is not currently present. For more information on UC-eLinks, see http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/uc-elinks/ .
Resource Liaisons Beth Weil, UCB (Current Contents) and Diane Fortner, UCB ( INSPEC) have created guides to the Ovid versions of these databases, which can be found on the CDL Adaptable Outreach and Instructional Materials web page http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/comm/outreach/
See item 6 below for detailed descriptions of the two new versions of the databases.
b. IEEE Journals are now Linked via UC-eLinks
The IEEE journals are now available via UC-eLinks. Access to the full electronic content of these journals is especially important now that Current Contents and INSPEC, which both cite these journals heavily, are available with UC-eLinks.
2. eScholarship Repository Launched
On April 3rd an important new component of the eScholarship program was launched by the CDL. The eScholarship Repository [ttp://repositories.cdlib.org/] stores and distributes working papers authored or sponsored by faculty from the University of California. Searching and viewing the content is open to everyone. The initial focus is on the humanities and social sciences.
Readers can, at no charge, discover and view relevant research by topic, author, or sponsoring research department with the site's straightforward organization and search tools. The system also allows users to sign up for a service alerting them to new content in their specific areas of interest.
Built under a co-development partnership with the Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress), the tools behind the eScholarship Repository improve the speed and efficiency of sharing the results of scholarly efforts. For participating scholars, departments, and research institutes, publishing working papers is greatly streamlined. The submission, processing, and dissemination of papers is managed through a simple web interface, the bepress EdiKit system.
The repository is the result of discussions with many ORUs and departments throughout the system. The CDL is grateful to library colleagues throughout UC who helped in identifying needs and talking with scholars, starting with focus groups held in 1998-99. The repository opens with early-adopter social science research units at UC Berkeley and UCLA. The Berkeley Olin Program in Law and Economics, Institute of Industrial Relations, Institute of Business and Economic Research, Institute of Transportation Studies, and others are moving existing working paper series to the repository as well as using it to publish new scholarship. The eScholarship Repository will also be the first stop for papers in the University of California International and Area Studies (UCIAS) peer-reviewed ePublications Program, an eScholarship initiative launched last year (http://escholarship.cdlib.org/ias.html).
In addition to authors' desire for new ways to disseminate and ensure the longevity of their work, the repository meets readers' needs for reliable tracking of the evolution of a work. The repository accommodates that need by maintaining links and citations for previous or later versions of any material posted.
The repository represents an important component of the CDL's eScholarship program, whose mission is to facilitate and support scholar-led innovations in scholarly communication.
The eScholarship staff are visiting each campus library in the next several months. Please watch for announcements of information sessions associated with those visits or take a look at the escholarship website at escholarship.cdlib.org.
3. Online Archive of California (OAC) Usability Testing
Behind the scenes, the Online Archive of California (OAC) is undergoing major improvements. First, a new home page is currently being designed to provide the OAC with its own unique identify. Second, Dynaweb the software package that first launched OAC when it was known as the UC-EAD project is being retired as the finding aid delivery system and replaced with DLXS (Digital Library eXtenstion Service) software.
Release of the new website (OAC version 1.0) is projected for July 2002. Usability Testing is at the heart of this transition to a new website and software package. The Usability Testing is a collaboration between the OAC Working Group, CDL Evaluation and Instruction Analyst Rosalie Lack, and CDL Web Design Manager Steve Toub. Liaisons at four campuses are leading the efforts using an instrumentation tool designed by Rosalie Lack. Building on experience gained in the CDL Usability Workshops in November 2001, Mary Elings and Michael Conkin at UC Berkeley, Nancy Kushigian and Daniel Goldstein at UC Davis, Bill Landis and Adrian Turner at UC Irvine and Brad Westbrook at UCSD are testing faculty, undergraduate and graduate students as well as archivists and librarians ability to navigate and search the new OAC software.
A series of five usability tests span the months of February - May 2002. Test results are then incorporated by Brian Tingle, Lead Programmer to improve the functionality of the website. Later this spring, the OAC website (still in development) will be previewed to the contributing OAC repositories for review and comment. We seek suggestions for improvement for the OAC Version 1.0 release and development priorities for OAC Version 2.0.
4. Counting California New Content--Census 2000 and Vital Statistics
The Counting California project team is pleased to announce the release of the following new content on Counting California (countingcalifornia.cdlib.org):
1. Census 2000 ( http://countingcalifornia.cdlib.org/title/sf12000.html
) Counting California announces the release of Census of Population and Housing,
Census 2000, Summary File 1 from the U.S. Census Bureau. Census 2000, Summary
File 1 is the second dataset (see also Census 2000 Redistricting Data (Public
Law 94-171)) added to Counting California from the Census Bureau's Census 2000
series. Census 2000, Summary File 1 provides data on personal, social, and economic
characteristics of the California population and information on physical and
financial characteristics of residential dwellings. Included are:
-----Population counts for 63 race categories and Hispanic or Latino,
-----Population counts for many detailed race and Hispanic or Latino categories,
and American Indian and Alaska Native tribes, and
-----Selected population and housing characteristics.
2. Vital Statistics ( http://countingcalifornia.cdlib.org/provider/health.html
) One of the goals of Counting California is to provide user-friendly and persistent
access to data produced by California State agencies. The California Department
of Health Services, whose mission is to "protect and improve the health of all
Californians" produces a large amount of vital statistics data. The following
datasets have been added to Counting California and are available in excel and
PDF.
----Deaths by Age: deaths by age, by county, by place of residence, California
1999.
----Deaths by County: deaths by county, by place of residence, California 1999.
----Live Births: live births, by county, California 1999.
----Live Births to Teens: the number and percent of live births to teen mothers,
by county, California 1999.
5. Library Staff News
a. Karen Cargille Retires
Karen Cargille, who will retire April 15, has been critical to the launching and growth of the CDL Shared Collections and will be sorely missed. Under her leadership as department head, the UCSD Library Acquisitions Department assumed responsibility for CDL Acquisitions at CDL's inception in 1998. She recommended procedures and practices for an entirely new kind of dispersed and collaborative organization and she has guided many of CDL's policies and practices, including the Checklist of Points to be Addressed in a CDL License Agreement and the Tier 2 procedures. She brought an ideal background to this systemwide effort--from serials cataloger to science librarian to acquisitions experience and expertise, and an indefatigable commitment to the mission of building a shared digital collection. For more than a year, she has been filling a large part of the CDL Director for Shared Collection's position with a 50% appointment as Senior Associate. The CDL wishes her the best in retirement.b. Three full-time, Temporary Employees Joined the Melvyl-T Project
Barbara Shepard
Barbara Shepard is a consultant to the Melvyl-T project team, and her primary responsibilities will include assisting with the coding of the user interface, and helping to organize and post to the Web all of CDL's Aleph documentation.
Before coming to CDL, Barbara's professional experience included working for three years at America Online/Netscape, primarily as a software applications engineer.
Bob Read
Bob Read will be working on a variety of programming projects including job scheduling for the campus input files, log file maintenance and report and statistics generation. Bob has significant UNIX, Oracle, Java and Perl experience and we look forward to learning from him in many different areas of the MELVYL-T project.
Shawn McGovern
Shawn McGovern will be the primary programmer at CDL working on the development of the campus input programs. He'll be collaborating with the systems staff at Berkeley, who have already begun the program development in this area. He will train CDL staff in Java programming and maintenance of the campus conversion programs. Besides his Java programming skills he also has many years of experience with Oracle, UNIX and with mainframe systems and COBOL.
6. Detailed Description Of New Vendor Versions Of Transitioning Databases
a. Detailed Description Of New Vendor Versions Of Transitioning Databases
On April 11, 2002, INSPEC via Ovid became available to the UC community at http://gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&NEWS=N&PAGE=main&D=insz. Access to INSPEC via CDL-hosted Databases is expected to continue until December 31, 2002.
INSPEC cites scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings in physics and astronomy, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and information technology. INSPEC indexes over 4000 journals, 1000 conferences, and some reports, dissertations and books. Ovid provides INSPEC data from 1969 to the present.
What's changed?
1. "Phrase searching" is new default
2. Truncation
1. "Phrase searching" is new default - Ovid defaults to adjacency in multiword searches. To go beyond phrase searching users must enter Boolean operators (and, or) between the words; for example, the Keyword search statement "quasiparticle graphite" will give zero results. The search statement "quasiparticle and graphite" will return 22 references.
2. Truncation is enhanced in INSPEC via Ovid.
---Use $ or : to retrieve unlimited suffix variations (gaussian$, to retrieve
gaussian, gaussianity€)
---Use # to replace a single character within or at the end of a word (gr#y,
to retrieve gray or grey)
---Use ? to replace one or no characters within or at the end of a word (model?ing,
to retrieve modeling or modelling)
What's new or better?
1. Online thesaurus
2. Classification Code searching
3. Numeric Data searching
1. Online subject thesaurus
INSPEC utilizes a "thesaurus", a mapped scheme of subjects that are assigned
to articles to facilitate subject searching. Users may now browse terms in the
online thesaurus, and users may search the database directly by a thesaurus
term/phrase. (While browsing was available for the CDL-hosted telnet version
of INSPEC since CDL first implemented it, the thesaurus was never available
in the CDL-hosted web interface.)
2. Classification Code
Classification Code searching enhances subject access. Physicists and engineers
are quite comfortable with codes and numbers, and the Ovid flavor of INSPEC
offers the capability to execute searches using a producer-designed subject
Classification Code system. It is a hierarchical scheme but ensures in the electronic
realm that the text of a heading can be understood without reference to the
hierarchical arrangement.
Searchers who already utilize PACS/Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme, established by American Institute of Physics' Subcommittee on Classification and Information Retrieval, will see familiar parallels between the British INSPEC classification codes and PACS.
The PACS for optical materials is "42.70"; the INSPEC Classification Code for
optical materials is "A4270". The Classification Codes begin with a single letter,
A, B, C, or D, denoting sections of the INSPEC database. Any item may appear
in more than one section.
A - Physics and Astronomy
B - Electrical Engineering and Electronics
C - Computers and Control
D - Information Technology
Users can search either the numerical classification code (A9650.cc) or its corresponding textual heading (interplanetary dust.cc). Both searches will retrieve the same documents. Searchers may view and select online from the hierarchical list of codes and corresponding terms.
3. Numeric Data
Numeric Data searching is now available. The Numerical Data (ND) field, which
first appeared in 1987, contains structured numeric data. The data is more likely
to be operating or experimental parameters rather than measured values or experimental
results. Only data that is in the title or abstract or is encountered by the
indexer when writing the abstract is considered for inclusion. Users may limit
results to articles discussing a particular type (such as Bandwidth, Depth,
Distance, Electrical Conductivity, Geocentric Distance, Heliocentric Distance,
Magnetic Flux Density, Mass, Pressure, Stellar Mass, Temperature, Time, Velocity)
without actually searching on the actual numeric value, by using the Limit /
Numeric Data option. Below is an example of Numeric Data indexing in INSPEC
from a recent Physical Review Letters article from the Department of Physics,
University of California, Berkeley (record edited to showcase ND field).
Example of Numeric Data Indexing:
Author
--Spataru CD. Cazalilla MA. Rubio A. Benedict LX. Echenique PM. Louie SG.
Institution
--Dept. of Phys., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA.
Title
--Anomalous quasiparticle lifetime in graphite: band structure effects.
Source
--Physical Review Letters, vol.87, no.24, 10 Dec. 2001, pp.246405/1-4. Publisher:
APS, USA.
Abstract
--We report ab initio calculations of quasiparticle lifetimes in graphite, as
determinedfrom the imaginary part of the self-energy operator within the GW
approximation. The inverse lifetime in the energy range from 0.5 to 3.5 eV above
the Fermi level presents significant deviations from the quadratic behavior
naively expected from Fermi liquid theory. The deviations are explained in terms
of the unique features of the band structure of this material. We also discuss
the experimental results from different groups and make some predictions for
future experiments. (22 References).
Treatment
--Theoretical or mathematical.
Numeric Data
--Electron volt energy 5.0E-01 to 3.5E+00 eV
What's one neat thing to remember?
Treatment Codes are considered one of the best features in INSPEC. A
Treatment Code helps to define what the author's approach was in writing an
article. There are choices of nine treatment codes that can be assigned to records
by INSPEC indexers and utilized by searchers to limit searches. Two of these
are especially important to physicists, Experimental and Theoretical.
---Applications describes the use or implementation of an instrument,
device, etc
---Bibliographic/Literature Survey describes an article that contains
many references, usually more than 50.
---Economic Aspects/Market Survey describes any article that deals with
economic or commercial aspects, including market forecasts and trends.
---Experimental is assigned to any article that describes an experimental
method, observation, or result.
---General or Review treatment code describes articles or documents that
deal with the overall view of a subject.
---New Developments describes articles covering something new or novel
in the patentable sense and is usually used in conjunction with another code.
---Practical code is assigned to any document of direct practical use,
and is useful for engineers and design staff.
---Product Review is used for product comparisons.
---Theoretical is assigned to theoretical or mathematical articles.
What's coming?
Alerts (updates) are not yet available but are planned for summer 2002.
b. Current Contents via Ovid (Beth Weil, UCB; Resource Liaison)
On April 11, 2002, Current Contents via Ovid will be made available to the UC community at http://gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&NEWS=N&PAGE=main&D=ccall ;. Access to Current Contents via CDL-hosted databases is expected to continue until 12/31/02.
Links to holdings and electronic full text are available through the UC-eLinks service. The Ovid version of Current Contents greatly enhances our access by providing new searching capabilities and new ways of managing the resulting citations.
Ovid provides Current Contents data from 1993 to the present. Current Contents provides access to the tables of contents and bibliographic data from current issues of the world's leading scholarly research journals and books in the sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities. Cover-to cover indexing of journal articles, reviews, meeting abstracts, editorials, etc., is provided for more than 7500 international journals covering all disciplines. Complete bibliographic information, including English-language author abstracts (for approximately 85% of articles and reviews in the science editions), author keywords, KeyWords Plus, and ISSN's are provided.
What's new for UC Users?
1. Abstracts for about 85% of the articles
2. Enhanced subject searching by the availability of abstract words, author
keywords and keywords plus
3. Volume and/or issue number are searchable, which can assist in verifying
citations
4. Author affiliation (called institution) is now searchable
5. Access to the table of contents is available from any citation
6. Current Contents subfiles list is browsable in limits
7. Adjacency searching allows greater precision in searching
8. Truncation options have expanded
9. Direct importing into Endnote 4 and 5
What has changed for UC Users?
1. CC through Ovid covers 1993-present. Those needing CC bibliographic data
prior to 1993 can access it from Web of Science.
2. Phrase searching is the default. Because Ovid defaults to adjacency, if you
want to do a word search you must enter Boolean operators between the words.
3. Alerts (updates) are not yet available, but are planned for summer 2002.
4. Command line access devotees will need to learn Ovid command line syntax.
(These are generally very similar to old BRS commands.) A summary of commands
is listed in Ovid's help under advanced searching. See (
http://gateway1.ovid.com:80/ovidweb.cgi?S=IDNJHKLGKFADLK00D&HC=syntax& )
5. # truncation symbol stands for only 1 character truncation
6. Call numbers and full text URL's can no longer be printed, emailed or imported
into personal bibliographic software (such as Endnote).
Searching Options
Ovid offers two searching options, basic and advanced. Basic mode supports author
and subject searching with basic limits. Advanced mode allows the user to specify
fields, and Boolean or adjacency operators either by using the main search tool
bar or by specifying commands in the search box. The search history is displayed
in the advanced mode. Although the search history is not displayed in basic
mode, Ovid does maintain it and you can easily see previous searches done in
basic mode by clicking on the advanced mode button on the main search page.
A list of commonly used fields in Current Contents is available in the CDL Current
Contents Quick Guide at [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/comm/outreach/ovidCC.doc].
A complete list of fields is available in the Ovid Current Contents Field Guide
in the Ovid Help under Database Information. http://gateway.ovid.com/rel450/server1/fldguide/cc.htm
Truncation
Truncation is greatly enhanced in the Ovid interface.
--Use $ or : to retrieve unlimited suffix variations (e.g. computer$.ti.)
--Use # to replace a single character within or at the end of a (word wom#n.ti)
--Use ? to replace one or no characters within or at the end of a word. (colo?r
= color or colour)
Note: You must have at least two characters in a word before any wild
card or truncation.
Author Searching
Author searching in the basic version is automatically truncated. In the advanced
system you must choose authors from the index or use appropriate truncation
in the command line.
Journal Search
Enter a few words of the journal title, just enough so that Ovid can take you
to the correct part of the journal index display. Do not use abbreviations.
Subject Searching
Enter your subject keyword or keywords (linked with a Boolean operator or as
a phrase), in the main search box and click on the Perform Search button. Titles,
abstracts, and author keywords and keywords plus will be searched. Without a
Boolean operator, terms will be looked for as a phrase.
Table of Contents
ToC are available from the results page of any search. To browse journal names
& issue numbers or Book names click on the Browse Contents Icon on the Searching
Tool Bar.
Managing your Results
Citations are emailed, printed or downloaded using the Citation Manager found
at the bottom of each screen display of records. The Citation Manager in advanced
mode provides a great amount of flexibility regarding which fields are included,
which citations are included and the method of delivery. Primary and secondary
sort functions are also available. The print function from the browser must
be used to print.
Personal Bibliographic Software (i.e Endnote)
Patrons who wish to import data in Endnote have several options; however you
must be in Advanced Mode to utilize them. Users of Endnote 4 and 5 can use Ovid's
direct import option if they are searching Ovid from a machine that has Endnote.
It is also possible to email or save files for importing into Endnote at a later
time. The reprint/Medlars format in the Citation Manager should be used for
either of these options.
Telnet Searching
A telnet searching option is available in Ovid. It can be reached by telneting
to Ovid.com and pressing return in response to the next two prompts. The telnet
access is not user friendly. For those of you looking for a fast command language
system we do not recommend telnet access. Using the Ovid command language will
be considerably more satisfying.
7. 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 "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.
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