CDLINFO Newsletter, May 27, 2004, Vol. 7, No. 10
CONTENTS
- New Resources Available
- Additions to JSTOR
- American Geophysical Union Journals
- Open Access Ejournal Policy and Request Form
- For More Information
- News and Publications
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- About CDLINFO
1. New Resources Available
a. Additions to JSTOR
We are pleased to announce the licensing of JSTOR's Arts & Sciences III, Arts & Sciences IV, and Arts & Sciences Complement collections. The Arts & Sciences collections represent the building blocks of a single interdisciplinary archive of over 600 journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Each of the four core Arts & Sciences collections introduces new academic disciplines into the archive. The Arts & Sciences Complement enables institutions to build upon these core collections, adding new journals in existing disciplines and cross-disciplinary fields over time. There are no overlaps (titles included in more than one collection) among the Arts & Sciences collections.
Focused on the arts and humanities, the Arts & Sciences III Collection will contain a minimum of 120 titles at completion. Currently 72 journals covering language and literature, music and the history and study of art and architecture are available. Additional titles in these fields as well as journals in cultural studies, film, folklore, performing arts, and religion will follow. Arts & Sciences III is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2005.
The Arts & Sciences IV Collection will include a minimum of 100 titles and will be released beginning in early 2004 and concluding in 2006. Law, psychology, and public policy and administration are the new areas introduced with this collection. The collection will also include business and education titles.
The Arts & Sciences Complement is intended to offer participants a method to seamlessly add journals related to the core Arts & Sciences I, II, III, and IV collections. For the Arts & Sciences Complement, journals may be focused in any of the more than 30 arts, humanities, and social sciences disciplines covered by JSTOR. Our aim is to introduce important titles that we were unable to include in earlier collections and to capture journals that cross discipline boundaries. A minimum of 150 titles will be added over five years, beginning in early 2004 and concluding by the end of 2008.
Title lists for these collections are available on JSTOR's site:
http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.
John Bloomberg-Rissman (UCR) is the CDL Resource Liaison for JSTOR.
b. American Geophysical Union Journals
By Peter Brueggerman (UCSD), Resource Liaison nominee
Access to the ejournals of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)is now available to all campuses through a CDL license. AGU is a major publisher in earth sciences, with a high level of user interest in licensed access.
As part of its collaborative mission, CDL fully funded this purchase, supported by co-investment from participating campuses to cover an annual Web access fee for each database.
The AGU titles available are:
Journal of Geophysical Research, all sections (aka JGR)
Geophysical Research Letters (aka GRL)
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (aka G-cubed)
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
International Journal of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy
Paleoceanography
Radio Science
Reviews of Geophysics
Tectonics
Water Resources Research
AGU ejournals are available back to 1994. Articles are available in HTML or PDF versions. The AGU ejournal system has several search options: author/year back to 1988; full text back to 2002; fielded bibliographic records with abstracts back to 1988. AGU journals are indexed by abstracting and indexing databases, such as Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA), and the CDL-licensed Georef. AGU ejournals are compatible with UC-eLinking to full text.
AGU ejournal access has simultaneous user restrictions that are campus-specific and not pooled systemwide, so campuses should be attentive to reports of user turnaway, in addition to monitoring AGU turnaway statistics. Additional simultaneous users can be purchased at the campus level.
CDL wishes to thank Peter Brueggerman (UCSD) and Tony Harvell (UCSD) for their efforts in bringing this resource to UC.
2. Open Access Ejournal Policy and Request Form
In continuing support of innovations in scholarly publishing, the CDL has developed a written policy for cataloging open access resources ( http://www.cdlib.org/inside/collect/openaccess.html ) and has implemented an online request form ( http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/scp/SCPcatalog_request.html ). For several years the Shared Catalog Program (SCP) has cataloged freely available ejournal content as recommended by the CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC). The journal records are distributed to all the campuses, entered into the CDL Directory and SFX tables (for UC-eLinks), and monitored in the same way as other resources.
Although the resources may be open access, these actions represent considerable investments that are designed to reduce similar kinds of actions that each campus might have to make individually on these resources. Even though a license will not be signed for these resources and there is no formal negotiation process with a vendor, these open access resources will follow existing procedures for licensed packages. For each open access journal, the catalogers have inserted the following title added entry: "Open access resource freely available; selected by the UC libraries."
All UC bibliographers are encouraged to now use this form to recommend cataloging of freely available titles whose scholarly qualities are affirmed by indexing in a major, disciplinary index. Once resources have been selected, the SCP will catalog them, UC-eLinks will be implemented, where possible, the titles will be added to the CDL Directory and announced via CDLINFO.
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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