CDLINFO Newsletter, August 11, 2005, Vol. 8, No. 15

CONTENTS

1. The New Interface for Expanded Academic ASAP
2. New Resources Available
   1. Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000 (Alexander Street Press)
3. For More Information
   1. News and Publications
   2. Contacts for Questions or Problems
   3. About CDLINFO

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1.The New Interface for Expanded Academic ASAP

Beginning August 15th the Expanded Academic ASAP database licensed by CDL, will have a new interface.  The Thomson Gale PowerSearch interface provides a number of new features and services that UC users will welcome.  Enhanced search screens will allow users to move quickly and easily from general keyword searches to more precise, targeted searches.  Improved search display results include numbered citations, tabbed source displays (e.g. "Magazine & Journal Articles, Newspapers, etc."), highlighted subject terms and the ability to quickly expand or limit searches from the results page.  New tools include a Citation Generator which allows users to save citations in MLA or APA style formats, or export them to third party software like EndNote, ProCite and ReferenceWorks.

A Powerpoint tour of the new interface is available at:

http://www.gale.com/Technical/more.htm  An in-depth, context sensitive, help guide is also available.

CDL will be distributing new links to EAI shortly.  While existing links to both the database and the InfoMarks will continue to work, Thomson Gale and CDL strongly recommend switching to the new links and updating all InfoMarks.

If you have questions or comments about the new interface please feel free to contact me.

Frank Gravier, Expanded Academic ASAP Resource Liaison gravier@ucsc.edu

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2. New Resources Available

a. Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000 (Alexander Street Press)

CDL is pleased to announce that Women and Social Movements has been licensed systemwide. This new database of full text materials serves as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S., it contains the following:

• 59 document projects that interpret and present documents, most of which are not otherwise available online. Each document project poses an interpretive question and provides a collection of documents that address the question. Altogether these document projects provide more than 1,600 documents, 600 images, and over 600 links to other web sites.
• 20,000 pages of documents pertaining to Women and Social Movements. These materials have been selected by the Editors for their relevance.
• A dictionary of social movements and organizations.
• A chronology of U.S. Women's History.
• Teaching Tools with lesson ideas and document-based questions related to the document projects.

Women and Social Movements is a welcome addition to UC's collection of resources from Alexander Street Press. It can be accessed at:

http://uclibs.org/PID/36739. Jane Faulkner (UCSB) will serve as the CDL Resource Liaison.

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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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