CDLINFO LISTSERV, August 14, 2003 Vol.6 No. 13 Issue
CONTENTS
- Latest Issue of El Mel Tells Available
- New Resources Available
- EconLit
- JSTOR Music Collection Coming Fall 2003
- International Inventory of Musical Sources (Repertoire International des Sources Musicales) (RISM)
- Los Angeles Times Joins Proquest Historical Newspapers (Elliot Kanter, UCSD)
- FirstSearch Changes (Kay Collins, UCI)
- Changes to MOAC Collection via Luna Insight
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about CDLINFO
1. Latest Issue of El Mel Tells Available
The latest issue of El Mel Tells bids a fond goodbye to legacy Melvyl, highlighting some of its history (http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/elmeltells/emtv2v4.html)
2. New Resources Available
NOTE: New resources listed below may not yet be in the CDL Directory of Collections and Services; they will be added within the next 2 weeks. You can access them directly from the URL provided.
a. EconLit
EconLit, originally included in a multi-campus SilverPlatter agreement that predated the CDL, is now a UC-wide resource licensed via OVID for all campuses through co-investments by campuses and the CDL.
EconLit, the fundamental research tool in economics, provides bibliographic citations, with selected abstracts, to the international literature on economics since 1969. This resource contains 581,000 records, with 27,000 added annually.
EconLit covers a broad range of document types published worldwide, including journal articles, books, and dissertations, as well as articles in collective works, such as conference proceedings and collected essay volumes. The database also includes Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics from the Cambridge University Press database, Index of Economic Articles in Journals & Collective Volumes and the full text of the Journal of Economic Literature book reviews.
EconLit topics include economic development, forecasting, and history; fiscal theory; monetary theory and financial institutions; business finance; public finance; and international, labor, health care, managerial, demographic, regional, agricultural, and urban economics; country studies, and government regulations.
Each campus has its own URL:
UCB: http://web5.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=ucb&databases=ECON
UCD: http://web5.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=ucd&databases=ECON
UCI: http://web5.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=uci&databases=ECON
UCLA: http://web5.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=ucla&databases=ECON
UCR: http://web5.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=ucr&databases=(ECON)
UCSD: http://web5.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=ucsd&databases=ECON
UCSF: http://web5.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=ucsf&databases=ECON
UCSB: http://web5.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=ucsb&databases=ECON
UCSC: http://web5.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=ucsc&databases=ECON
b. JSTOR Music Collection Coming Fall 2003
JSTOR Music Collection has been approved for co-investments by CDL and all campuses except Riverside and San Francisco. CDL will pay the perpetual rights fee, and participating campuses will pay an annual subscription rate.
The Music Collection contains the complete back runs of 31 new JSTOR titles dedicated to scholarly research and theory in the field of music. This collection contains a vast selection of international titles, including journals published in the Netherlands, Croatia, Hungary, Germany and France. The title list can be found at http://www.jstor.org/about/music.list.html There is no overlap of content with any other JSTOR collection.
It addresses musical issues that span diverse musical genres such as World Music in television ads and "Structure and Imagery in Chinese Lute Music." One can find articles published as early as 1844, as well as articles about musicology in the contemporary era; subjects from the study of musical instruments to the "Construction of Albanian National Subjectivity" through poetry and songs.
Manuscript studies, criticism and book reviews from respected scholars, musicians and composers such as Aaron Copland, Allen Forte and Jean-Jacques Nattiez are included in this collection.
The Music Collection includes such features of interest as:
The full back runs of four journals that began publication in the 19th century: Archiv für Musikwissenschaft (1899); Journal of the Royal Musical Association (1874); The Musical Times (1844); and Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis (1869).
The historical volumes of The Musical Times, which has, since 1884, published obituaries of all of the major 19th and 20th century European composers including Brahms, Chopin, Ravel, Liszt and Verdi.
Musical Quarterly, which contains articles written by important composers and musicologists such as Aaron Copland, Arnold Schoenberg, Henry Cowell, and Camille Saint-Saens.
Latin American Music Review, which explores the historical, ethnographic, and
sociocultural dimensions of Latin American music around the world, and is one
of a number of journals in the collection focusing on international music and
ethnomusicology.
c. International Inventory of Musical Sources (Repertoire International des Sources Musicales) (RISM)
International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM) (http://biblioline.nisc.com/scripts/login.dll?BiblioLine&dbname=QRISM ) is now available to all campuses, except UCR. RISM was the #1 priority for UC music selectors in 2003-2004. Participating campuses will pay an annual subscription fee.
Complementing two SCAP-funded databases, RILM and RIPM, and funded by the campuses, RISM is an anthology of four linked databases that include more than 412,000 records with at least 20,000 new records added each year.
RISM series A/II: "Music manuscripts after 1600" is the most comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600. It contains more than 380,000 works by over 18,000 composers. The manuscripts are found in over 595 libraries and archives in 31 countries including: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Uruguay and USA. The Music manuscript database is linked to three other databases providing additional information to specific content: Composer, Library Sigla and Bibliographic Citations.
3. Los Angeles Times Joins Proquest Historical Newspapers (Elliot Kanter, UCSD)
On June 28, 2003, Proquest released the first segment of the Historical Los
Angeles Times, 1881-1923. Because of unexpected production difficulties with
the layout and design of the early newspapers, about 30 percent (between 1904
and 1914) was left out initially; this was filled in by the end of July.
The remaining Historical segment, 1924 through 1984, will be added steadily
during 2003 and 2004. This process is ongoing; as of early August about 6 months
of 1924 were already online. The plan is to move forward in time until the Historical
newspaper meets the "Current" file of the L.A. Times: 1985-present.
The schedule is as follows:
When the Los Angeles Times digitization has been completed, the UC libraries will have access to the content of three Proquest newspapers, with the historical files complemented by the current.
| Historical | Current | |
| Los Angeles Times | 1881-1984 | 1985-present |
| New York Times | 1851-1999 | 1999-present |
| Wall Street Journal | 1889-1985 | 1982-present |
Although there appears to be overlap, remember that there are a number of differences between the historical and current segments for each newspaper.
- The historical and current newspapers are on different platforms and cannot be searched together.
- The historical newspapers display article and full page images; the current newspapers display only text
- The historical newspapers include cover-to-cover content; the current newspapers exclude the text of a variety of copyrighted and syndicated articles, as well as advertising and graphics
One more caution--later decades of the historical newspapers also include material
under copyright. In such cases, individual articles, photographs or other works
may not be displayed separately. But they will still be viewable as part of
the full page image, which will always be displayed. It is then possible to
mark the article with the Acrobat graphics selection tool, and printed separately.
Proquest has developed a very useful 7-page guide to searching, viewing and
printing results from all three Historical Newspapers, available at
http://proquest.umi.com/i-std/en/help/qkguide/historicalnewspapers.pdf
Proquest Next Interface
The just-released Proquest Next interface (being used by the current and historical newspapers, as well as ABI/INFORM and American Periodicals Series Online) includes a number of improvements especially helpful for newspapers, including simplified date searching/limiting, easier selection of article types, and the option to sort by chronological or reverse chronological order, especially useful for a newspaper. Searchers can even change the language used in the interface and the help screens: French, German, Spanish; Chinese, Japanese and Korean (sorry, no translations of the actual text!). Watch future issues of CDLINFO for more information on the new Proquest interface.
4. FirstSearch Changes (Kay Collins, UCI)
FirstSearch recently made some changes to their databases. Essentially, they are cosmetic, but it does make navigating the various databases much easier and search functions which are available are much more apparent. Most changes are the same for all the databases in FirstSearch, but there are slight variations.
Databases included: PapersFirst, ArticleFirst, ECO, ERIC, GPO, Proceedings, UnionLists, World Almanac and World Cat. I found using all the different databases very instructive and find I use them more than before.
Navigation Bars and Icons: The old navigation bar in the left margin has been replaced with a series of easily read navigation buttons or tabs across the top of the page. While some of these navigation tabs and buttons change at different stages of a search, it does make various options fairly obvious. "Home", "Databases" and "Searching" are always present across the top. The tabs in the line below will change in relation to a current search.
Help: Help buttons are prominent. Clicking on them brings up a help window related to that point in a search--beginning a search, search results, etc.
Searching: The ability to search across up to 3 databases at once is now more evident. By clicking on "Databases" tab, or if one selects the list of databases from the “GO TO” drop down menu, the user is informed they can select up to 3 databases.
Searching by Topic: Databases can be selected by topic from either the "Databases" tab or using the GO TO box and clicking on "Databases by Topic". I found the topics sometimes did not include all the databases that might apply to that subject. However, a student working on a paper might find them useful to get started. Topics are very broad, e.g., General; Education; Life Sciences, etc. Whether using the database list or the list by topics, the list provided has a checkbox to the left. Click the box of the one(s) desired, then click Select. A search box then appears for searching across those databases. Results for each database are posted at the top in large type and boxes which should look very familiar to anyone used to the old system.
Also part of the new look are the much more visible icon buttons. Most of these are self evident as to meaning, for example, an envelope for email. For most of them, there is also a label just below the icon. Depending on the database, some are not as obvious and a mouse over usually brings up the meaning. Those buttons change, depending on whether one is in basic, advanced or expert search mode. Often with Keyword searches, a box appears to the right which supports browsing topics. Since truncation is limited in FirstSearch, this browse feature helps the user select a term to search and thereby avoid the problem with truncation limitations.
Some features unique to a database: Hot Topics in WorldCat; Thesaurus (Subjects button) in ERIC; Browse Journals in ArticleFirst; and, the 4 additional titles available for search in WorldAlmanac.
The Basic Search screen, the usual default, is much better for simple searches. Instead of clicking on Author or Title or Keyword, there is a labeled box to fill in for each of those. No Boolean searching in Basic Search.
The Advanced Search is set up for Boolean searches using drop down menus for "And", "Or", "Not". Advanced also offers choices in the drop down menus of the search boxes. Of course, these choices vary with each database.
Expert searching is like command searching and also allows proximity searching. A series of help boxes is at the bottom of the search page to help an expert with usual commands.
The option of limiting to full text is a nice feature students will use. This appears at the bottom of the search boxes, whether Basic, Advanced or Expert. A quirk of the database list is that this does not apply to all databases even when a lot of full-text is available. Right now it applies to ArticleFirst, ECO and ERIC.
Results usually also prominently include links to "Articles like this". Or, there is prominently displayed at the top the offer of help with refining a search.
Appearance: Colors are different and not as bright as the previous version. Each library or individual can reset the colors if they do not like the default. Just click on Options and a choice of four-color palettes is available.
Print size is very good. Easy on the eyes and big enough for students to read from a classroom projection. Compare ERIC type here to other versions available on other databases.
Prominent on all screens is the branding with the campus name and at UC Irvine it has a link to the Ask A Librarian feature. UC-eLinks are obvious after a search is completed and a full record displayed. The listing of titles located through a search does not display the URL for free resources in the short form of the list. It is only in the full record display that this becomes visible, usually far down in the record.
Let your UC FirstSearch database liaisons know what you think about these changes and anymore that might be possible to help library users. My review has already prompted me to make suggestions and I got back a reply within 24 hours. The UC CDL FirstSearch liaisons are:
WorldCat: Laura Galvan-Estrada, UCSD lestrada@ucsd.edu
GPO: Kay Collins, UCI kcollins@lib.uci.edu
PapersFirst: Bob Heyer-Gray, UCD rheyer@ucdavis.edu
ProceedingsFirst: Bob Heyer-Gray, UCD rheyer@ucdavis.edu
5. Changes to MOAC Collection via Luna Insight
The following changes have been made to the MOAC collection via Luna Insight (http://www.cdlib.org/hlp/directory/moac.html) with the goals of providing simpler search options and easier to understand search and display labels, making search and display options more consistent with other collections, and providing thumbnail labels more useful to users for selecting items. The Image Demonstrator Project Team analyzed the MOAC data and consulted with MOAC representatives prior to having the changes implemented. A similar review is in progress for the Saskia collection.
Search options are now:
-keyword
-data field (equivalent of advanced search with all possible search fields)
-show all (the equivalent of the starting page)
The data fields have been simplified to include the following:
-creator name (was creator/maker)
-group creator name (was corporation name)
-title (was object name/title)
-collection title
-object type (was type of object)
-materials (was medium/materials)
-date (was creation date)
-current location (was repository corporation name)
-provenance (was creditline/provenance)
-object ID (was current object ID number)
-METS ID (was METS ID number)
The collection description has been enhanced to list the contributing museums with a link to the MOAC web site. Currently, the description is only available in the Java client--go to File/Open Collection to view the description.
6. 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 "What's New" 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
To subscribe for email distribution: Please send an email message to listserv@listserv.ucop.edu with the following line as the body of the message, where FirstName LastName is your name: SUBSCRIBE CDLINFO-L FirstName LastName
CDLINFO is also published on the web at http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/
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.