CDLINFO LISTSERV, May 9, 2002, Vol.5, No.9
CONTENTS
- CDL Database Transitions
- UC-eLinks Goes Public on OCLC
- New Resources Available
- Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982
- Six NISC Databases
- Scientific American Archive Online (Anna Gold, UCSD)
- Web Delivery of Articles Now Available (Claire Q. Bellanti, UCLA)
- Library Staff News
- David Walker Moving On
- John Ober Named Interim Director of Technologies
- Mark Reyes Joins the CDL
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about CDLINFO
1. CDL Database Transitions
a. UC-eLinks Goes Public on OCLC
On May 8, 2002, UC-eLinks was made available in the OCLC FirstSearch databases.
Direct Borrowing from WorldCat
UC's FirstSearch users will now be able to request items via interlibrary services
directly from WorldCat and other FirstSearch databases. When patrons encounter
a record for which there are no holdings on their campuses, they will be able
to use Request on the UC-eLinks pop-up window. By clicking on the Request arrow,
they will be taken directly to the interlibrary borrowing Request form where
they can request the item from another institution.
Link to Full Electronic Text
There are article full text links in the OCLC databases for those items that
have full text available, such as ArticleFirst and ECO.
Caveats for Conference Proceedings
You will encounter some false results when linking to conference holdings in
databases such as ProceedingsFirst, because of the nature of these materials.
Some campuses have cataloged conference proceedings as books rather than as
serials, and vice versa, so that some records appear in CAT and others in PE.
For the moment, when searching for these materials, if you do not initially
find your item when linked to holdings via UC-eLinks, check in both the Melvyl
and Periodicals databases. This problem will be remedied when UC-eLinks points
to the new version of Melvyl, where the two databases will be combined.
Members of the Transition Steering Committee (TSC), Users Council, and the campus Request liaisons and campus ILL staff have reviewed a test version of UC-eLinks on OCLC.
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 list of recently added content is always available at: http://www.cdlib.org/news/whatsnew.html
a. Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890 - 1982
Reader's Guide Retrospective [http://uclibs.org/PID/21386] is now available to all ten UC campuses, (including UC Merced). UC campuses will have unlimited access to the database via H.W. Wilson's web site.The Reader's Guide Retrospective database is a priority resource for UC campus subject selectors and the Joint Steering Committee recommended it for systemwide access. CDL negotiated a one-time purchase with a small annual maintenance fee to be shared by 8 UC campuses, beginning in 2003. San Francisco is included for free.
The Reader's Guide Retrospective database is currently complete back to 1963 and will include files back to 1890 upon the completion in 2002.
From the wreck of the Titanic to Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon; from the Charleston craze to the Sharon Tate murders; from Pearl Harbor to the Bay of Pigs--here's a record of an entire century of popular magazine coverage, and a reflection of America's evolving attitudes and culture.
Readers' Guide Retrospective provides searchable access to more than 100 years of citations from 512 leading U.S. magazines--valuable reference for students, journalists, educators, historians, social scientists, writers, business researchers and others.
- Search the equivalent of 44 printed Readers' Guide cumulations (including
19th Century Readers' Guide 1890 -1899).
- Search by author, title, subject, keyword, journal, or year!
- Updated, uniform subject headings allow searching by familiar, contemporary
terms. Original subject headings are also featured, for historians, sociologists,
linguists, writers, and others interested in the way issues of the day were
framed.
- Saves the effort of shelving and maintaining back volumes! Entries link
to page images from original Readers' Guide volumes, allowing users access
to "see" and "see also" references and the complete hierarchy
of subject headings and subheadings.
- Seamlessly combines with contemporary research databases. Search Readers'
Guide Retrospective simultaneously with other Readers' Guide databases on
WilsonWeb, or with any other WilsonWeb database.
- Helps with acquiring actual articles! Order actual articles through links
to the Infotrieve online document delivery service or through your interlibrary
loan service. Even finding articles on your shelves is easy--with periodicals
holdings messages linked to your OPAC.
- Two-part release: Coverage 1969 through 1982 available August 2001. (675,000 entries.); Complete database - 1890 through 1982 - available Fall 2002. (More than 2,500,000 entries.)
- One-time subscription fee, plus a nominal yearly WilsonWeb users fee
- Available as an annual subscription with your Readers' Guide or OmniFile subscription
- Special discount to current subscribers to the following databases: Readers'Guide
Full Text, Mega Edition; Readers' Guide Full Text, Select Edition; OmniFile
Full Text, Mega Edition; OmniFile Full Text, Select Edition.
b. Six NISC Databases
The CDL has licensed six databases from the National Information Systems Corporation (NISC), beginning on May 1, 2002. They are: African Studies, Black Studies Database (1948-1986), Family & Society Studies Worldwide, Sexual Diversity Studies (formerly Gay & Lesbian Abstracts), Women's Resources International, and the Left Index. Six UC campuses subscribed to all six databases: Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Santa Barbara.
These NISC databases have been a high priority for several years for a number of bibliographer groups surveyed by Joint Steering Committee, and in 2001 the JSC recommended that the CDL negotiate a license for access.
The major factor that had been holding up licensing was NISC's inability to allow shared ports. NISC has since solved the technical issues and is now reviewing licenses with their various providers to develop pricing. As an interim solution, the campuses have licensed 5 concurrent users per campus.
JSC recommended that the campuses fund the subscription, but that the CDL contribute
an amount sufficient to enable all campuses to pay the same amount or less than
what they would have paid if they subscribed on their own.
African Studies: http://uclibs.org/PID/16676
African Studies is a combination of 17 databases from three continents providing
access to multi-disciplinary information on Africa. It contains over 634,000
indexed references, many with abstracts. Records are derived from books, periodical
articles, pamphlets, maps and music recordings. Topics include politics, history,
economics, business, mining, development, social issues, anthropology, literature,
language, law, music and much more.
Sexual Diversity Studies: http://uclibs.org/PID/16678
Sexual Diversity Studies (SDS) offers a review of scholarly as well as popular
print, electronic, and Internet publications of the GLBT press. Most topics
of interest to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities are covered
in depth. Of paramount importance is the coverage of history, culture, social
issues, interests, and concerns of the GLBT community. SDS primarily indexes
publications addressing the social, legal, economic, political, cultural, historical,
literary, and health concerns of the GLBT community. SDS indexes a variety of
materials including non-fiction, reviews, and essays-excluding only fiction
and erotica. Nearly 600 sources include: journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters,
bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, dissertations, studies,
important websites & web documents, and multi-media publications. Over 1,600
periodical sources are represented and include ISSNs.
Women's Resources International:
http://uclibs.org/PID/16677
Women's Resources International (WRI) covers the core disciplines in Women's
Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. WRI supports curriculum
development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy,
public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and
education. Nearly 800 sources include: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins,
books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies,
important websites & web documents, and grey literature. Over 2,000 periodical
sources are represented and include ISSNs.
Black Studies Database: http://uclibs.org/PID/16679
Includes more than 170,000 citations drawn from significant and influential
journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, pamphlets and reports relevant
to the Black experience from 1948-1986. It covers events critical to the study
of Black life and culture outside of Africa including notable figures in Black
history, culture, and sports; the Civil Rights Movement, the growth of the NAACP
and the National Urban League; the Southern Christian Leadership Conference;
jazz and soul music; and much more.
Family & Society Studies Worldwide: http://uclibs.org/PID/16680
Family & Society Studies Worldwide (FSSW) contains all the citations of
the discontinued print version, Inventory of Marriage & Family Literature,
plus abstracts which were never available in print. In addition, it includes
The Australian Family & Society Abstracts, commonly known as FAMILY, is
produced by the Australian Institute of Family Studies. Family & Society
Studies Worldwide covers popular issues as well as meeting the requirements
of professionals in all fields of social work, social science and family practice.
Publications indexed in the database are drawn from a wide range of social science
disciplines including anthropology, sociology, psychology, demography, health
sciences, education, economics, law, history, and social work. Source documents
include related websites, internet documents, professional journals, conference
papers, books, book chapters, selected popular literature, government reports,
discussion and working papers, unpublished material such as poster sessions,
statistical documents, theses & dissertations and other sources, many of
which are indexed exclusively in FSSW.
Left Index: http://uclibs.org/PID/20838
The Left Index serves as a guide to the diverse literature of the left, with
an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship
inside and outside academia. A secondary emphasis is on significant but little
known sources of news and ideas. Other topics covered include the labor movement,
ecology & environment, race & ethnicity, social & cultural theory,
sociology, art & aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and globalization.
Historically significant early Left publications such as The People (est. NY
1891), and The Class Struggle (1931-1937) along with classic texts by Marx,
Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and others, written in the formative years of the Left,
also are covered. Many of the 260 sources indexed are unique; you won't find
them indexed in API, the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature or the Social
Sciences Citation Index.
Note: Alternative Press Index is no longer available from NISC. The Left
Index was included in its place.
c. Scientific American Archive Online (Anna Gold, UCSD)
The UC Science & Engineering Librarians represented by Anna Gold of UC San Diego, worked with Dave Fisher of UCSD's Acquisitions Department to complete a Tier 2 negotiation with Macmillan for online access to Scientific American. All UC campuses participated in the acquisition. Beginning May 6, 2002 all UC users will have access to PDF versions of the complete editorial pages of the magazine published since January 1993.
The direct URL for the archive is: http://www.sciamarchive.org/.
3. Web Delivery of Articles Now Available (Claire Q. Bellanti, UCLA)
Web Delivery is now available as part of CDL Request. In most cases, when users make a CDL Request for an article or book chapter, they will receive it through web delivery rather in paper format, unless they choose specifically to receive the paper. Web Delivery means that the lending ILL unit scans the material and posts it on the web in PDF format, and sends users an email with instructions on how to retrieve the document. Web delivery gets the material to users much faster than passing paper documents through the mail.
There may be times when it is not possible for the lending library to create an electronic copy. If users select web delivery and receive a paper copy, it was means that the document requested could not be scanned.
4. Library Staff News
a. David Walker Moving On
David Walker, CDL's Director of Technologies since late 1999, has been appointed as Director for Advanced Technology Information Resources & Communications at UCOP. This is a completely new position for the University. The position will give David the challenging and exciting opportunity to direct systemwide technology planning in collaboration with the campuses.
David's contribution to the CDL framework and Systemwide Library Planning predate
his arrival at UCOP by several years with his service, from UCI, on the UC Digital
Library Executive Working Group. He brought extensive knowledge and technology
planning experience to CDL. Amongst his many contributions have been planning
the MELVYL-T architecture, orchestrating the transition to a service level agreement
with IR&C, and leading the CDL Strategic Technology Architecture and Standards
Working Group.
b. John Ober Named Interim Director of Technologies
John Ober has agreed to assume responsibility as the California Digital Library's
Interim Director of Technologies, effective May 13, 2002. John is currently
Director for Education and Strategic Innovation, CDL's representative to the
[Library] Systemwide Operations and Planning Group, and a member of the CDL
Strategic Technology, Architecture and Standards Working Group. As Interim Director
of Technologies, he will oversee management of three groups--Access, Content,
and Architecture & Infrastructure--and provide leadership to numerous ongoing
operations and developmental projects.
c. Mark Reyes Joins the CDL
Programmer/Analyst Mark Reyes joined the CDL on May 1 filling a permanent position in the Content Group with production control responsibilities for the new Melvyl-T database. Mark is a recent arrival in the Bay Area having previously worked for Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, where he performed similar tasks for the GPS and ionospheric communities.
5 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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