CONTENTS
- New Licensed Databases
- ABC/CLIO's America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts
- Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
- Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW)
- ITER: Gateway to the Renaissance
- New CDL-hosted Databases
- English Short Title Catalog (ESTC)
- GeoRef
- CDL Resource Liaisons Appointed
- Thanks to Lucia Snowhill
- CDL Milestones
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about the CDLINFO-L Listserv
1. New Licensed Databases (available for use and now represented in the CDL Directory of Collections at [http://www.cdlib.org/])
Readers are reminded that the CDL's "Collections Update" document (available at [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/docs/]) is updated regularly with information about resources being negotiated and expected times for availability. Campus Collection Development Officers also have current status information.a. ABC/CLIO's America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts
ABC-CLIO, headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, specializes in authoritative reference sources on topics in fields ranging from history, politics, and social sciences to mythology, military history and science.These A&I databases are unique in their coverage of historical information, and were selected as priorities for systemwide site licensing by the systemwide Computer Files Committee in the early 1990s. For the past decade UC campuses have subscribed individually to them. This spring they were approved for co-investment and CDL-managed licensing, through the shared collections decision process.
America: History and Life includes historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Originally published in 1964, the database now comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries.
Historical Abstracts, published since 1954, includes coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). It has long been recognized as the leading bibliography for historical study in the world. It covers over 2,000 historical periodicals from every major country and also includes a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities that are of special interest to researchers and students of history.
b. Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
CIAO is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 to the present and includes the full texts of working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs (non-governmental organizations), foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences, where scholars provide analysis and discussion of current debates in policy and scholarship. CIAO provides journal abstracts of articles from key foreign policy journals, 12 full-text online books, links to more than 160 other related sites, and a calendar of meetings, conferences, seminars, and research projects. Currently, 45 leading research centers from around the world have posted working papers and conference proceedings on this site.Each section of CIAO is updated with new material on a regular schedule. Working papers are augmented every month, as are conference proceedings, policy briefs, and economic indicators. Links and resources, the schedule of events, and the response files are updated weekly. New journal issues and books are added as they become available.
CIAO content will eventually be linked to our holdings.
c. Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW)
Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW) is a comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and Native American press. Continuously growing since 1991, with archival material back to 1985, Ethnic NewsWatch is now a collection of more than 470,000 full-text articles from over 200 publications. The database is searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both languages and more than 100,000 articles in Spanish. ENW offers in-depth coverage of a wide range of current and topics easily accessed using free text and fielded searching. An average of 7,500 new articles is added each month.ENW includes African-American, Caribbean/African, Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian/Pacific Island, European/Eastern European, Hispanic, Jewish, Multi-Ethnic, and Native American ethnic publications. Article types include book reviews, business articles, news columns, editorials, fashion and food articles, interviews, movie reviews, obituaries, music reviews, sports articles, television reviews, and theatre reviews.
Every article is displayed with the publication's logo, hot linked to publication information, such as contact, subscription, and advertising information, as well as circulation, editorial staff, publication dates, and frequency.
Virtually all of the UC campuses subscribed to ENW on CD ROM prior to this CDL agreement. This new CDL license opens up web access to all nine campuses to 20 (pooled) simultaneous users systemwide, many more than had been licensed on any single campus.
d. ITER: Gateway to the Renaissance
ITER is a good example of the value (in guiding selection priorities) that the JSC placed on publication by non-profit organizations with innovative, sustainable models for electronic resource licensing (See [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/jsc/] for a full enumeration of JSC priorities for licensing.)Iter, meaning 'a journey' or 'a path' in Latin, is a non-profit research project with partners in Toronto, Canada (the headquarters), New York City, and Tempe, Arizona. The goal of Iter is to increase access to all published materials pertaining to the Renaissance (1300-1700) and, eventually, to the Middle Ages (400-1500), through the creation of online bibliographic databases. (For more information, see the web site at: [http://www.library.utoronto.ca/iter/].)
This resource is an A&I bibliography of more than 225,000 articles and reviews drawn from over 300 medieval and renaissance journal titles (Middle Ages and Renaissance; 400-1700). The database is updated daily, with more than 60,000 new records added annually. Its content enhances the CDL's Humanities collections by focusing in depth on unique subject matter.
2. New CDL-hosted Databases Available from the Web (at [http://www.dbs.cdlib.org/])
a. English Short Title Catalog (ESTC)
The database contains over 423,000 citations and is updated daily. It includes information on works printed in England and its dependencies from 1473 to 1800, as well as works printed in English anywhere else in the world during that period. There are selected titles in other languages, including French, German, and Latin. Subject headings are included for works published in 1700 or earlier. ESTC is produced by the British Library and ESTC/North America.We have tried to be consistent in providing the same search options offered in the Telnet version of ESTC. Note that although Date, Language, and Publication Type appear as Optional Limits on the Power Search screen, they may also be searched independently, just as they are in the Telnet version. They are presented as Optional Limits to be consistent with other CDL-hosted web databases.
b. GeoRef
The GeoRef (@Stanford) database is produced by the American Geological Institute, and indexes and abstracts the worldwide literature on geology, including information on energy sources, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, groundwater pollution, nuclear reactor sites, landslides, and erosion, as well as the history of the earth, the structure of the earth, the study of ore deposits, and geostatistics.GeoRef selects articles and documents from over 3,500 journals and serials in more than 40 languages, as well as maps, theses and dissertations, conference papers, government publications, books and book chapters, and reports. Coverage is worldwide in scope. About 40% of the publications come from the United States. A portion of the references are received, in exchange, from Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres (BRGM), the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST), the Czech Geological Survey (Prague), Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), and the Bundesanstalt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe(BGR).
Citations cover the years 1785-present for geology of North America and the years 1933-present for geology of other areas. The Stanford file includes the entire GeoRef file of 2.1 million records (as of 2/99) and is updated monthly. Approximately 60,000 records are added yearly.
We have tried to be consistent in providing the same search options offered in the Telnet version of GeoRef.
3. CDL Resource Liaisons Appointed
A generous group of campus librarians have taken responsibility for researching, reviewing, and monitoring the databases to which CDL offers access in order to enable CDL staff to maintain quality service to users.Thanks and welcome to this important new program go to Dawn Anderson (UCI), Sharon Baker (UCD), John Bloomberg-Rissman (UCR), Ellen Broidy (UCI), Elizabeth Byrne (UCB), Suzanne Calpestri (UCB), Myrtis Cochran (UCB), Janice Contini (UCLA), Elizabeth Cowell (UCSD), Sylvia Curtis (UCSB), Sherry Dedecker (UCSB), Julia Gelfand (UCI), Ann Jensen (UCB), Deborah Kegel (UCSD), Linda Kennedy (UCD), Kathryn Kjsaer (UCI), Karl Kocher (UCD), Julia Kochi (UCSF), Lyn Korenic (UCSB), Nancy Kushigian (UCD), Catherine Lee (UCLA), Judy Lee (UCR), Mary Ann Mahoney (UCB), Steve Mitchell (UCR), Michelle Potter (UCR), Jim Spohrer (UCB), Lorelei Tanjii (UCI), Judy Tsou (UCB), Alan Urbanic (UCB), Camille Wanat (UCB), Beth Weil (UCB), Sally Weimer (UCSB), Carol Womack (UCI), Christina Woo (UCI), and Fred Yuengling (UCSC).
4. Thanks to Lucia Snowhill
The CDL would like to thank Lucia Snowhill, UCSB Librarian, for her enormous contribution to the conversion of the RLG and OCLC Z39.50 databases to the Web interface (RLG: Anthropological Literature, Avery Index to Architecture Periodicals, Chicano, ESTC, HSCI, and RLIN Bibliographic File; OCLC: ArtAbstracts, MLA, and WorldCat; Stanford: GeoRef). For the past two years Lucia has helped CDL staff translate each database from Telnet into Web format. She has advised our programmers and worked with our Digital Library Services staff, providing all the details of the search functions that users need to see. She has tried to maintain consistency between the Telnet and Web versions of each database, despite the obvious differences in the user/system interfaces. She has proofed and corrected our pages and pages of documentation with unflagging energy, and has clarified our tasks. And she has tried to satisfy all the particular requests of the various advisory committees to make each database as completely functional as possible in our interface. We simply could not have completed the task without her.5. CDL Milestones
CDL Milestones are now posted on the CDL informational web site6. 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/ 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.
7. Information about the CDLINFO-L Listserv
The CDLINFO-L Listserv is designed for UC library employees as a first step in CDL efforts to build an active communications program to inform the UC community about progress in creation 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 Listserv to faculty, staff, and students on their campuses, as appropriate. Other descriptive information about the CDL is available at the www.cdlib.org web site.
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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@ucop.edu.