CDLINFO LISTSERV, July 12, 2001, Vol.4, No.12
CONTENTS
- CDL Database Transitions
- ERIC (Telnet) via Stanford No Longer Available
- GeoRef Available on CSA
- Mevyl Survey for Library Staff
- New Resources Available
- The Index to Current Urban Documents (ICUD) (Julia Gelfand, UCI)
- Accessible Archives/Scholarly Resources (Joan Ariel, UCI)
- American Civil War: Letters And Diaries Prototype
- Evolving User Instruction - CDL-Hosted Workshop Coming
- Company of Biologists (COB) Now Available on Highwire Press (Barbara Schader, UCLA)
- Nature Update
- CDL Statistics Report
- Library Staff News
- CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about CDLINFO
1. CDL Database Transitions
a. ERIC (Telnet) via Stanford No Longer Available
Stanford is in the process of restructuring its locally loaded databases. As part of this process, Stanford staff decided to discontinue the local load of the ERIC database as of July 1, 2001. The "USE ERIC" command in the telnet interface no longer connects the user to the Stanford system.
We apologize for the lack of advance notice for you and your patrons. Unfortunately, CDL staff was only told about this change after the fact, on July 5, 2001.
During the evaluation phase of the A&I transition, the CSA version was recommended as the one to be supported by the CDL. This version links to holdings and to E*subscribe for full text of the ERIC documents.
Access to ERIC via CSA
At the CDL-hosted databases homepage [http://www.dbs.cdlib.org] choose ERIC from the "More databases" pull-down menu.
Access to Other ERIC options:
From the CDL Directory of Collections and Services at: http://www.cdlib.org/cgi-bin/directory_search. Search the CDL Directory for "ERIC" to see the choices available.
b. GeoRef Available on CSA
Web access to GeoRef via CSA is now available. As stated in the last CDLINFO issue (June 14, 2001, Vol.4, No.10, http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo061401.html#1), the Transition Steering Committee recommended Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) as the vendor for GeoRef.
Access to GeoRef via CSA
--CDL-hosted databases homepage [http://www.dbs.cdlib.org] choose GeoRef [via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts] from the "More databases" pull-down menu.
OR
--CDL Collections and Services web page (http://www.cdlib.org/collections/), and select "GeoRef (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)" from the Other Databases pull-down menu; then press "go", and select your campus location.
Access to the Stanford version of GeoRef ends August 1, 2001 in both the CDL hosted web (GeoRef@Stanford) and telnet (USE GeoRef) interfaces.
c. Melvyl Survey for Library Staff
Library staff uses the current Melvyl Cat and PE databases for a variety of cataloging, acquisitions, other technical services, interlibrary services, collection development, and public services functions that our users do not. The CDL and campus staff members working on the new version of Melvyl do not want to overlook crucial behind-the-scenes functionalities for staff while building a catalog for the public. In order to capture as many of the hidden uses of the current Melvyl Catalog as possible, we encourage staff, particularly technical services staff, to take the following survey. Survey available at: http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/2734/melvylstaffsurvey.htm
Please encourage as many of your colleagues as possible to take it, too. The survey will be up through July 31, 2001.
2. New Resources Available
A list of recently added content is always available at: http://www.cdlib.org/news/whatsnew.htmla. The Index to Current Urban Documents (ICUD) (Julia Gelfand, UCI)
Coordinated by Julia Gelfand, five campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, Irvine and San Diego) have licensed the Index to Current Urban Documents (ICUD) [http://uclibs.org/PID/7547] as a Tier 2 resource. This is another example of the successful use of the "tiered" structure for acquiring shared content in which a subset of campuses identify a common need and, with some assistance with logistics from the CDL, negotiate multi-campus access.
Available as a web product since 2000, ICUD, from Greenwood Press, is a rich resource for state and local documents and information about particular cities and municipalities. Coverage is growing rapidly with wide US content and an increasing global scope; the product is updated quarterly. Particularly relevant for urban planning, urban finance, public administration and policy, urban sociology, and related topics, ICUD will be helpful to users who seek information from primary sources and original documents not usually found in other databases.
In addition to a web-based search engine leading to full-text documents, a year-end annual index will be issued in print and sent to all participating libraries. Earlier full-text documents are located at Berkeley on microfiche, previously acquired as a shared purchase.
b. Accessible Archives/Scholarly Resources (Joan Ariel, UCI)
The UC Women's Studies / U.S. and British History Consortium, coordinated by Joan Ariel (UCI), recently negotiated substantially discounted Tier 2 access to four key full-text databases from Accessible Archives/Scholarly Resources <http://srch.accessible.com>:
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century. Beginning in 1827 with the Freedom's Journal, the first Black newspaper in America, this database includes biographical material, essays and editorials concerning slavery and emancipation; social, political and economic observations; poetry and prose; advertisements and other representations of African American culture and experience in the 19th century (available to Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz)
Godey's Lady's Book. The first successful American journal for women, Godey's began in 1830, circulated for nearly seventy years and included contributions from such celebrated writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edgar Allan Poe. It was also noted for its handsome illustrations, which included hand-colored fashion plates, mezzotints, engravings, woodcuts, and ultimately chromolithographs. Godey's provides a significant source for the study of women's history, social history, textile studies, and material culture and literature (available to Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz)
The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800. Considered the New York Times of the 18th century, Benjamin's Franklin's newspaper provides a unique first-hand view of the social, political and cultural history of colonial America, the American Revolution, and the New Republic. Also included is the full-text of such important writings as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Paine's Common Sense, and The Federalist Papers (available to Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz)
The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective. Drawing from both Union and Confederate newspapers published between November 1, 1860 and April 30, 1865, this database contains more than 12,000 articles and 700 maps. It covers 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury, and The Richmond Inquirer, encompassing descriptive news articles, eye-witness accounts and official reports of battles of the Civil War, but also including non-military social and cultural concerns of the day (available to Irvine, Los Angeles and San Diego).
Licensing for these resources was expertly handled by Sharon Farb, and assisted by Consortium member Ellen Broidy, both of UCLA. We thank them for their efforts.
c. American Civil War: Letters And Diaries Prototype
A functional prototype of The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries from Alexander Street Press has just been released (see CDLINFO January 10, 2001, Vol.4, No.1 http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo011001.html#2 for the initial licensing announcement).
This new full-text collection will eventually contain more than 100,000 pages of primary materials from the North and South, spanning the years from 1850-1870. The prototype now available has only about 12,000 pages, mostly by white Northerners. The regular release scheduled for late summer 2001 will expand to include coverage of African-American and Confederate writers.
During the test period, Alexander Street Press is seeking input from its online customers. Please feel free to preview the database and forward to them any feedback you may have.
Contact your campus Users Council member to get the necessary URL, password and login. Below is a list of Users Council members.
UC Berkeley, Bette Anton, banton@library.berkeley.edu
UC Davis, Bob Heyer-Gray, rheyer@ucdavis.edu
UC Irvine, Christina Woo, cjwoo@uci.edu
UC Los Angeles, Gabriella S. Gray, gsgray@library.ucla.edu
UC Riverside, Wally Babcock, wally.babcock@ucr.edu
UC San Diego, James Church, jchurch@ucsd.edu
UC San Francisco, Julia Kochi, kochi@library.ucsf.edu
UC Santa Barbara, Carol Gibbens, Gibbens@library.ucsb.edu
UC Santa Cruz, Frank Gravier, gravier@cats.ucsc.edu
3. Evolving User Instruction - CDL-Hosted Workshop Coming
The CDL, with the endorsement and assistance of SOPAG, is sponsoring a workshop this September aimed at instruction and reference practitioners responsible for teaching new and new versions of Abstracting and Indexing databases and other digital information discovery resources. Randy Hensley, Public Services Division Head at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Libraries, past chair of ACRL Instruction Section, and a faculty member at the ACRL Institute for Information Literacy Immersion Program, will lead the workshop, which will be offered in both Northern and Southern California.
The sessions will create opportunities for participants to explore ways to teach concepts within the context of the A&I database transitions [see documentation at http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/a-i-trans/], and to develop techniques to support self-directed learning. The concept of learning transfer, the process by which students recognize elements from past experience and modify or apply these elements to new situations, and the role of public service staff as teacher in this process, will also be explored. The role and use of the Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education to develop learning objectives and assessment will be investigated as well.
The workshops will emphasize the practical; practice, experience and application, so that participants will leave having begun to re-design their instructional approaches. In order to engage all attendees fully in this process, the number of participants will be limited to 60 at each site.
A small planning committee for the workshop is comprised of Cathy Palmer (I), Patty Iannuzzi (B), Gabriella Gray (LA), and Ellen Meltzer (CDL), all members of the A&aamp;I Transition Steering Committee (TSC).
Dates:
September 10, 2001, Northern California
September 12, 2001, Southern California
Time:
9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Continental breakfast, breaks and lunch included
Selection process: Under SOPAG leadership campuses will send staff who are responsible for teaching users how to discover, manipulate, evaluate, and interpret the information provided by A&I databases, within the constraints of the attendance limits.
4. Company of Biologists (COB) Now Available on Highwire Press (Barbara Schader, UCLA)
As of June 15th, the three Company of Biologists (COB) titles are now available on Highwire Press. The new URLs for the 3 titles published by Company of Biologists are:
DEVELOPMENT [http://dev.biologists.org/ ]
JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE [http://jcs.biologists.org/]
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY [http://jeb.biologists.org/]
Although our subscriptions have already been activated and access to the old site will be redirected to the Highwire Press site, it is still important to change to the new URLs to avoid access problems in the future. Now that these titles are available via Highwire Press, we have a great deal more flexibility and available data. Advantages include:
- Full text HTML of all articles
- Increased speed of connection owing to greater bandwidth
- Inter-journal linking with related titles
- Expanded cross-journal search facilities
- Greater ease in obtaining statistical data
- Linking at the article level for all CDL-hosted databases
- Novel initiatives such as multi-site archiving (coming)
Any questions regarding COB titles and/or the move to Highwire Press should be directed to Barbara Schader at bschader@library.ucla.edu or 310-825-6498.
5. Nature Licensing Update
Some of the major concerns regarding Nature's institutional model have been addressed, so the CDL has begun licensing negotiations. There are still several outstanding issues that need to be resolved. See the complete update at: http://www.cdlib.org/about/publications/nature_update.html
6. Statistics Summary Report Available
The second annual statistical profile of the CDL is now available from the "About the CDL" publications web site [http://www.cdlib.org/about/publications/], entitled The California Digital Library: Key Indicators of Collections and Use (January - December 2000).
As explained in the report's introduction, this year we changed to a "key indicators" approach to the report that focuses on indicators that capture the growth and change in usage patterns.
Many thanks to the Resource Liaisons for compiling and reporting vendor data.
7. Library Staff News
a. CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections
The CDL is pleased to announce that Lorelei Tanji, Head of Collection Development at UC Irvine, has been appointed to a three-year term on the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) and that Cindy Shelton, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Technical Services at UCLA, has accepted appointment to a second term.
Clint Howard completed his term on JSC as of July 1, but will continue on the "Next Generation Task Force", charged with developing renegotiation positions for several large, multi-year contracts. Clint has assisted in nurturing the CDL Shared Collections program from its inception in 1998; his leadership and substantial contributions have been invaluable. Thanks also to Cindy Shelton for her three years of service and willingness to re-enlist.
The CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections was appointed to advise the CDL on shared collections from a systemwide viewpoint and to identify and manage appropriate consultative and evaluation mechanisms (see [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/jsc/].
8. 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.
c. Information about CDLINFO
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