CONTENTS
- New Resources Available July 1
- Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
- Art Index Retrospective
- Human Relations Area File (HRAF)
- Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS)
- Reminder: MLA Bibliography and ArtAbstracts Migration
- ABI/Inform Geographic Name Index Removed
- SilverLinker: Links to Full Text from SilverPlatter Databases
- Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Bibliography Udpate (Allan Urbanic, UCB)
- JSTOR Interface Changes Implemented June 19, 2000
- The Library of California and the CDL Partnership
- What's Coming with the July Release?
- Co-Library Staff
- Clare Bellanti joins PIR/Request Team
- Brian Warling Leaving the CDL
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about CDLINFO
1. New Resources Available July 1
Availability of the following four diverse and highly recommended resources is the result of the CDL's consultative process with the CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections, Resource Liaisons, and the Bibliographer Groups. These groups conducted surveys and consulted faculty and staff in making their recommendations.a. Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
The Oxford English Dictionary, a new subscription funded by the CDL, is a historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day. OED Online offers a lexicography of every English word and its every meaning, illustrated by 2.5 million quotations from a millennium of change.
It aims to show not only the current meanings of words, but also to trace their development through time. Entries contain detailed etymological analysis, and are illustrated by quotations from a wide range of English language sources from around the world, making the OED a unique historical record.
The revision of the OED is a $55 million project scheduled over the next 10 years. With new material released online quarterly, online subscribers have a unique opportunity to follow the progress of the revision project.
Features of OED Online:- At least 1,000 new and revised entries each quarter
- Search the equivalent of over 20 volumes of information
- Display entries according to your needs - you can turn pronunciation, etymologies, variant spellings, and quotations on and off
- Compare revised entries with entries from the Second Edition to see how the language has changed
b. Art Index Retrospective
Art Index Retrospective is a "Tier 2" (those licensed by a subset of the 9 campuses whose licensing is assisted by the CDL) resource whose licensing was initiated by the Visual Resources librarians and integrated with licensing Art Abstracts at the CDL. It extends Art Abstracts by indexing over 420 art journalism publications from 1929 through 1984 (it does not include abstracts). Art Abstracts covers 1984 to present with abstracts available from 1994 to present. Art Index Retrospective cumulates citations to Art Index Volumes 20-32 of the printed index.
The sources include those published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch, as well as English. In addition to periodicals, there are also data from important yearbooks and select museum bulletins. The subject coverage includes publications which focus on advertising art; antiques; archaeology; architecture and architectural history; art history; computers in art; crafts; decorative arts; fashion; folk art; graphic arts; industrial design; interior design; landscape architecture; motion pictures; museology; painting; photography; pottery; sculpture; television; textiles; and video.
Both Art Index and Art Index Retrospective are now available on the same (new) WilsonWeb platform. Art Abstracts is available to all UC campuses. Art Index Retrospective is not available to UC Riverside.
c. Human Relations Area File (HRAF)
Human Relations Area File licensing represents a co-investment by all the campuses and the CDL. This resource includes two products: the electronic Collection of Ethnography and electronic Collection of Archaeology. All UC campuses will have access to the Collection of Ethnography effective July 1. Access to the Archaeology Collection will begin January 1, 2001 for all campuses except UCSF.
The HRAF Collection of Ethnography contains records from 1949 to the present, totaling nearly one million pages of information on over 365 cultures, past and present. HRAF adds 2-3 new cultures each year, concentrating mostly on immigrant groups in the US and Canada. HRAF is also converting and updating the 60 cultures previously published.
Each culture case or tradition file contains a brief encyclopedic summary of the culture ("Guide to the File"), as well as a variety of source materials such as books, articles with illustrations, figures, and tables and manuscripts, indexed and organized in HRAF's culture and subject classification schemes--Outline of World Culture and Outline of Cultural Materials. There is an online thesaurus of terms with subject codes. The online thesaurus is key to effective searching of this web resource.
d. Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS)
The Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS) was licensed through a co-investment by all the campuses and the CDL. DDRS is a collection of over 70,000 primary source government documents. The documents cover the post-World War II period through the 1970's. Nearly every major foreign and domestic event of these years is included (such as the Cold War, Vietnam Conflict and civil rights movement). Some of the source agencies included are the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of State, Department of Defense, plus the White House, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Department of Justice. The documents are provided by the presidential libraries, that release them as researchers request them, so the documents included in DDRS are precisely those that respond to researchers' current needs.
Items range from telegrams, correspondence, field reports to background studies and minutes of cabinet-level meetings. DDRS regularly covers:
- Cabinet meeting minutes
- National Security Council policy statements
- CIA intelligence studies
- Presidential conferences
- State Department political analyses
- Joint Chiefs Papers
When the DDRS digitization project is complete, it will include more than 400,000 digitized pages. The digitized version includes both GIFF images of the original and searchable full text of all of the documents, providing extensive search opportunities.
UC students, staff and faculty now have greatly enhanced research opportunities for these materials as well as the opportunity to view, download and print them.
2. Reminder: MLA Bibliography and ArtAbstracts Migration
As discussed in a past CDLINFO (Vol. 3, No.8 http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo061500.html#2), as of July 1 MLA Bibliography and ArtAbstracts will be provided by new vendors (SilverPlatter and H. W. Wilson respectively).Note: As of July 1 the only access to these databases will be via the vendor web interfaces (SilverPlatter for MLA Bibliography and H.W. Wilson for Art Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective). The Z39.50 access to MLA and ArtAbstracts in both the telnet and web CDL interfaces will be temporarily disabled as we transition to the new vendors. As part of the transition these databases will be temporarily removed from the database menus in the CDL-hosted databases welcome screen the CDL web site; users attempting to access these databases via telnet will be redirected to the appropriate vendor web sites. There will be a news announcement that users will be able to see under "What's New" on the CDL-hosted databases welcome screen and in the database news in the telnet interface. We are currently working with the vendors to make these databases available to users from the CDL interfaces via Z39.50 on July 19.
SearchLight Implication: On July 1 MLA and ArtAbstracts will be removed from SearchLight. The new versions will be added within the next few weeks, either accessed through the Z39.50 interface or the native interface. We intend to implement them via Z39.50 so that we can provide "instant gratification" to the CDL-hosted databases interface, but if the Z39.50 implementations are delayed we may use the native interfaces. Starting July 1 there will be a "What's New" link on the SearchLight search page; the latest information about the status of resources in SearchLight will be available on this page.
3. ABI/Inform Geographic Name Index Removed
Earlier this year, ABI/Inform changed the way they indexed Geographic Names (GN). Originally, ABI/Inform used a controlled list of Geographic Names that were at the state/region level, and the CDL's ABI/Inform GN index was set-up to only allow the valid names to be used. In early 2000 the indexing policy was changed, and the indexers no longer use a GN authority list, instead they now index any Geographic Name deemed appropriate--including names that were not allowed earlier, such as names of cities. Since this is incompatible with the way the GN index is constructed, the GN index will be removed from the ABI/Inform database on June 30.
In addition to being in the GN index, the Geographic Names have always been part of the CDL ABI/Inform Keyword (KW) index--in fact, the non-authority file names only appear in the KW index. After the June change, users should use the Keyword index to search for Geographic Names. Geographic Names are still displayed in the LONG, LONG TAGS, and Fields displays. The display labels will change to Added Keywords (AK).
4. SilverLinker: Links to Full Text from SilverPlatter Databases
The CDL recently purchased the SilverLinker tool, which provides linking capability from SilverPlatter database citations to full text. This feature will be available in all SilverPlatter databases (those licensed locally and through the CDL).
Currently, the links are provided to journals from the following publishers/providers: Academic Press, American Institute of Physics, Blackwell's Information Services, Elsevier Science Direct, Kluwer Academic Publishers, NRC Research Press, Project MUSE, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and Springer-Verlag.
5. Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Bibliography Udpate (Allan Urbanic, UCB)
The Russian Academy of Sciences has resumed contributions to this RLG Citation Resources database. In May, the bibliography was updated with 100,000 retrospective records in anthropology, archaeology, and history (covering articles published between 1986 and 1990) and close to 70,000 current records.
RAS is international in scope -- its most significant contribution to indexing is access to Russian scholarly literature in the Social Sciences and Humanities. While major Russian journals published in Moscow and Saint Petersburg are frequently covered in other indexes (e.g., MLA), the literature published outside of these population centers can only be found in this database.
6. JSTOR Interface Changes Implemented June 19, 2000
"Set Preferences" Feature
The new "Set Preferences" feature incorporates the existing set page size option with the new ability to select and set a preferred printing option. The former print page with the three JSTOR printing options has been replaced with a simpler print page that displays one default option (PDF: High Quality) and an option to "Set Preferences." Both printing preferences and page size preferences may be modified at any time by selecting the "Set Preferences" button from the JSTOR toolbar. Additionally, new [Print] and [Download] links on search results pages and the table of contents pages offer shortcuts to these functions.
Provider Designation Service
The JSTOR Provider Designation, a brief statement that states "Access to JSTOR is provided by your UC campus library in collaboration with the California Digital Library" appears at the top of the JSTOR window.
Help for Zero results
Users with zero search results will now be presented with information about why JSTOR did not find any matches to the search criteria. For example, if the user enters a publication date that is beyond the JSTOR moving wall for that title, the user will be presented with an explanation of the moving wall and the coverage information for the titles included in the search.
Latex codes will no longer appear in citations and abstracts
Latex is a coding language used to represent special characters that cannot be displayed in ASCII text, e.g., mathematical formulae, chemical formulae, and Greek or other notations, for Mathematics and Science journals. JSTOR now shows rendered Latex instead of raw Latex encoding as the default display in citations and abstracts. There is a link to the raw Latex display at the end of the citation page. Users using Macintosh machines or older versions of windows may find that the Latex is not always rendered properly. To optimize the display of rendered Latex, JSTOR recommends that users download a Unicode font for their machine and set the browser preferences to use this font to display encoded text. Information about doing so is located in the context-sensitive help file available from the JSTOR citation/abstract page.
Quick Links on the JSTOR "Browse" Page
Quick links have been added at the top of the "Browse" page to make it easier to jump to the individual discipline groups.
7. The Library of California and the CDL Partnership
The Library of California [http://www.library.ca.gov/loc/ ] (created in 1998 with the goal to link all libraries in the state) and the CDL have formed a partnership to encourage the creation of new digital library information and services. The partnership also addresses the challenges of preserving digital materials, efficiently selecting and licensing digital content, and designing friendly online gateways to make this material accessible to the public.
Some areas of immediate focus include the California Periodicals Database, the Online Archive of California [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/oac] and California Counts (the CDL's government information initiative) [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/gii/CDP/]. To read a press release about the agreement go to the UC Newswire [http://www.ucnewswire.org]and do a story search on "LOC".
8. What's Coming with the July Release?
Readers are reminded that information about the July 19th release of the CDL web site and the CDL-hosted databases interface are available at [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/july2000/]. Most recently added to that site is the redesigned entry page to CDL Collections and Services. Many of the changes incorporated into the release were suggested by library staff and patrons of the CDL via feedback forms, campus discussions, liaison groups, and focus groups.
9. Co-Library Staff
a. Clare Bellanti joins PIR/Request Team
Claire Bellanti adds PIR/Request Team membership to her existing duties as the Director of the Southern Regional Storage Facility at UCLA. As part of the PIR/Request team, she is responsible for the Desktop Delivery planning phase of PIR/Request Service. The current implementation plan (part of Request Phase III) is to use e-mail to notify users that their Requested materials are ready for viewing on the web. The document URL will be valid for a limited period of time. More information about PIR/Request is available at: [ http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/projects/pir/].b. Brian Warling Leaving the CDL
Brian will be leaving the CDL on July 7 to take an exciting new position at the UCSF Library as Manager, Multimedia Development. Brian has made significant contributions to the CDL during his tenure as Web Design Coordinator. His conceptualization and design of the CDL Directory, design of the user interface for SearchLight, and most recently the design of the MyLibrary interface are among his accomplishments. He has also been a great source of expertise on HTML and web design techniques for many of us.
Please join us in wishing Brian well in his new position and return to UCSF.
10. For More Information
a. CDL News
Several items of interest, including "Milestones," "Highlights 1997-1998," "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.
c. Information about CDLINFO
CDLINFO is designed to inform UC Librarians, and the UC community, about the progress of the CDL, policy issues under discussion, and newly available electronic resources. We hope that subscribers from the UC libraries will pass on selected information from the newsletter to faculty, staff, and students on their campuses, as appropriate. More complete information about the CDL, as well as the Directory of Collections and Services which leads to digital resources, is available at the CDL website at http://www.cdlib.org.
Eligible subscribers: UC library employees
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Frequency of publication: Biweekly, or as new information warrants.
Communicating with the Listserv: While the CDL Listserv does not accept submissions, subscribers are encouraged to send suggestions, thoughts, and comments on material in the Listserv or on related issues to the CDL at cdl@www.cdlib.org.