CDLINFO Newsletter, July 27, 2006, Vol. 9, No. 12
CONTENTS
- CDL Resource Liaisons
- SCP Cataloging Priorities
- New Resources Available
- JSTOR Biological Sciences Collection
- Canadian Journal of Chemistry Backfile
- For More Information
- News and Publications
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- About CDLINFO
1. CDL Resource Liaisons
The CDL is pleased to announce the appointment of the following CDL Resource Liaisons:
American Assoc. Cancer Research Journals – Penny Coppernoll-Blach, UC San Diego
ATLA Religion Database – Jan Carter, UC Berkeley
CIAO – Jesse Silva, UC Berkeley
Digital Dissertations – Michelle Jacobs, UC Merced
Early American Imprints, Series I and II – Kerry Scott, UC Santa Cruz
Family & Society Studies Worldwide – Ken Firestein, UC Davis
Handbooks in Economics – Harold Colson, UC San Diego
Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) Ethnography and Archaeology Collections – Martha Ramirez, UC Santa Cruz
Index Islamicus – Jan Carter, UC Berkeley
MIT Press Journals – Michelle Jacobs, UC Merced
Philosopher's Index – Jan Carter, UC Berkeley
RILM – Sara Davidson, UC Merced
RIPM – Sara Davidson, UC Merced
Each Resource Liaison serves as UC's "resident expert" on one or more of our systemwide licensed resources, providing information on vendor performance and resource content to the CDL. The Resource Liaison is also responsible for sharing information and soliciting opinions from colleagues regarding their assigned resource.
A full list of CDL Resource Liaisons can be found at: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/groups/rl/roster.html.
2. SCP Cataloging Priorities
By Adolfo R. Tarango (UC San Diego), Head, Shared Cataloging Program Unit
Shared Cataloging Program staff have posted an "SCP Cataloging Priorities" document. The document should address many questions campus staff may have regarding SCP cataloging priorities and how they were established. The document lists the general priorities used and also notes some workload considerations that affect priorities. Procedures for how staff may request SCP cataloging of online resources are also given as well as other general information about the scope of the SCP. The document is available at: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/scp/SCPpriorities.doc.
If you have questions regarding this document, please contact Adolfo Tarango at atarango@ucsd.edu.
3. New Resources Available
a. JSTOR Biological Sciences Collection
By John Bloomberg-Rissman (UC Riverside ), CDL Resource Liaison
UC now has access to JSTOR’s Biological Sciences Collection. This collection is growing, and will include at least 100 titles when it is completed in 2007. This collection brings together the 29 journals available in JSTOR’s existing Ecology & Botany Collection with more than 70 titles new to JSTOR. Coverage in this collection offers greater depth in fields such as biodiversity, conservation, paleontology, and plant science, in addition to introducing new areas such as cell biology and zoology.
The Ecology & Botany Collection that this new collection subsumes was founded with the assistance of the Ecological Society of America; it includes this society’s premier research journals alongside a range of titles broadly focused on ecosystems. Topics covered by the ecology journals are wide-ranging, from biodiversity and climate change to conservation and experimental biology. The botany titles - including the oldest botanical journal in the Americas - encompass a range of subjects such as plant biology, systematic botany, and taxonomy. Six of the Ecology & Botany titles are also available in the Arts & Sciences I Collection.
For a detailed list of titles in the Biological Sciences Collection, please see: http://www.jstor.org/about/biosci_content.html.
b. Canadian Journal of Chemistry Backfile
By Christy Caldwell (UC Santa Cruz), CDL Resource Liaison
CDL is pleased to announce UC’s acquisition of the online backfile to the Canadian Journal of Chemistry. With this backfile, we now have full text access to the entire run of this journal under its current title (1951 to present). This represents an addition of 46 years worth of content.
The publisher, NRC Research Press, expressed thanks to the joint efforts from the Canadian Society for Chemistry, the Canadian Council of University Chemistry Chairs, and the University of Western Ontario for making the backfile possible.
The Canadian Journal of Chemistry publishes international articles primarily in analytical, inorganic, organic and physical-theoretical chemistry.
4. 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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