CDLINFO Newsletter, May 13, 2004 Vol. 7, No. 9
CONTENTS
- New Resources Available
- APA PsycARTICLES
- Wilson's Education Full Text
- Digital Library Services Workshop Information Online
- MetaLib Selected for Metasearch Infrastructure Project
- Changes to Melvyl: Journal Record Additions
- Library Staff News
- Jill Woolums Joins the CDL
- For More Information
- News and Publications
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- About CDLINFO
1. New Resources Available
a. APA PsycARTICLES
The CDL is pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement with the American Psychological Association (APA) to license PsycARTICLES, a database of full-text articles from 51 journals published by the APA, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The URL is: http://www.cdlib.org/hlp/directory/psycarticles.html
Systemwide licensing of APA journals has been a priority for the CDL almost since its inception, with UC psychology selectors naming the APA as their most important publisher for systemwide ejournal licensing. In order to meet user needs and facilitate transitions in our campus libraries from print to digital resources, completeness of content (i.e. digital content of journals that is at least equivalent to the print) was a critical licensing requirement.
Because the APA launched PsycARTICLES as a database of articles only, the CDL had been in continual negotiation with the APA over this point. The APA situation was included in CDL's "Barriers to Licensing" web page for several years. Fortunately, APA listened and recently changed its policy to include all content such as errata, table of contents, notes, and commentary.
PsycARTICLES has been mounted on the CSA platform and is displayed directly above its companion resource, PsycINFO. All journals covered in PsycARTICLES are indexed in the PsycINFO database, which includes all materials from the print journals with the exception of advertisements and editorial board lists.
The license with the APA is a three-year agreement for unlimited simultaneous users and access for all 10 campuses. The annual subscription includes access to all years that are available online. Dates of coverage vary somewhat by title, but generally APA publications start with 1987.
In order to facilitate campus transitions from print to a larger electronic investment, the CDL will contribute 100 percent of the annual subscription cost in 2004 and 75 percent in 2005. In 2006 and beyond, the annual subscription will be shared equally between the CDL and the campuses. Also beginning in 2006, the campuses have agreed to co-invest in a shared print archive of the APA journals.
You can search PsycARTICLES by specifying keywords that may occur in the article title, abstract, or the full-text, or by author names and journal titles. Or, you can browse directly through the journal titles and click on the tables of contents for the respective volumes and issues.
UC e-Links is available in PsycINFO, which provides a link to the corresponding full-text article. An alerting function is available that sends an email notification to users when a new issue has been added to the database.
The CDL would like to particularly thank Barbara Glendenning (UC Berkeley) and Lorna Lueck (UC Santa Barbara), along with Alice Perez (UC San Diego), Julia Gelfand (UC Irving), Joan Kaplowitz (UCLA), Christina Woo (UC Irving), David Michalski (UC Davis), Karen M. Mokrzycki (UC Santa Cruz), Michael Yonezawa (UC Riverside), and Min-Lin Fang (UC San Francisco) who tested vendor platforms and linking capabilities, verified the online coverage vs. print, and provided valuable input to the systemwide decision process. Barbara Glendenning has graciously agreed to be Resource Liaison.
b. Wilson's Education Full Text
By Diane Childs (UCLA), who has been nominated to be the Resource Liaison for Wilson Education Full TextUC now has access to Wilson's Education Full Text, a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts education literature from an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. The URL is: http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml
Indexing of periodicals extends as far back as 1983. Full text extends as far back as 1996. Although Wilson does not index as many journals as ERIC, it does provide full text access to 87 journals not covered by ERIC. Additional journal titles are covered with abstracts only. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source documents.
With the hiatus of ERIC's coverage of journal literature, Wilson's Education Full Text is especially important. The database covers a wide range of education topics, including athletics, government funding, literacy standards, school administration, and teaching methods.
2. Digital Library Services Workshop Information Online
Details about the upcoming CDL one-day workshops in May and June, Digital Library Services for UC's Libraries, can now be found at: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/news/events/digital_library_service_workshop.html
The page includes the agenda and information about locations, scheduling, meals, and attendees.
3. MetaLib Selected for Metasearch Infrastructure Project
CDL has completed an agreement with Ex Libris to purchase its MetaLib software for use in the Metasearch Infrastructure Project (http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/metasearch/).
The process for selecting the software began in 2002 with a market survey conducted by Christy Hightower and Catherine Soehner at UCSC. The CDL project team then focused on evaluating the most promising products through indepth discussions with vendors, interviews with customers, and assessment against a set of criteria which included functional specifications as well as specific features to support the goals of the project. The ability to support consortial management of target resources as well as the flexibility to create many different metasearch "portals" were key considerations.
The Metasearch project team will be working with Ex Libris over the coming months to install version 3 of the MetaLib software. It will be used first in support of a prototype version aimed at undergraduates for finding "a few good things" with consultation from UCSC and UCLA. UCLA will also participate in developing a version oriented to research use within a specific discipline. Other versions will be used in support of the American West and NSDL grant projects (http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/metasearch/nsdl/). For more information, contact Roy Tennant (roy.tennant@ucop.edu).
4. Changes to Melvyl: Journal Record Additions
Programming to update the UC Irvine journal records in Melvyl was implemented Thursday, May 6. (These records have not been updated since 11/13/02 because of a change in Irvine's output method for serials to meet CDL's revised standard. The necessary work was recently completed on Irvine's part, and by CDL staff who wrote a new conversion program so that the records could be added.) The UC Irvine files began being processed on Tuesday, May 11. The CDL anticipates the UCI journal records should be loaded into Melvyl by approximately May 17th, at which time we will place a note in the periwinkle box on the Basic Melvyl screen noting the change.
UC Hastings College of the Law journal records, which had not yet been present in this version of Melvyl, are also being added this month (May 2004). Hastings monographs are currently in Melvyl.
5. Library Staff News
a. Jill Woolums Joins the CDL
Jill Woolums has joined the CDL to manage the Resource Liaison program for approximately six months while Heather Christenson is on maternity leave.
Heather's last day will be May 25th, and at that time Jill be the primary contact for the Resource Liaisons. Jill will be in the office part-time, primarily on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. She is currently a reference and web services librarian at UC Berkeley, working half time in the Education Psychology Library. Jill has previous experience in licensing, with UC Berkeley committee work, and as a CDL Resource Liaison.
Jill can be reached at the same phone number Heather has used: (510) 987-0525. Her email address is: jwoolums@ucop.edu
6. 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.
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