CDLINFO LISTSERV, August 15, 2002, Vol.5, No.14
CONTENTS
- CDL Database Transitions
- UC-eLinks Icon Coming in Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
- AutoAlerts and Enhanced AutoAlerts in Ovid
- Changes in the Welcome Page for CDL-Hosted Databases
- Ex Libris Melvyl Tells
- CIAS Digital Collection Debuts
- California Cultures Workshop Held August 6-7
- Library Staff News
- Maria Figueroa - New Addition to CDL Acquisitions
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about CDLINFO
1. CDL Database Transitions
a. UC-eLinks Icon Coming in Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Next week, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) will put the UC-eLinks icon into operation in its databases; rather than using the text link “UC-eLinks”, as it is currently doing.CDL licensed databases from CSA include the following, and many campuses also
license others:
ARTbibliographies Modern
Environmental RouteNet
ERIC
GeoRef
PAIS International
PsycINFO
Social Services Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts
b. AutoAlerts and Enhanced AutoAlerts in Ovid
Enhanced AutoAlerts will be released next week in the Ovid Databases (BIOSIS, Current Contents, EI Compendex*Plus, INSPEC, and MLA International Bibliography). AutoAlerts allows a saved search to run automatically without any intervention on the user’s part after it is saved in an Ovid database. Enhanced AutoAlerts allow users to receive email notification of new articles and citations that meet the criteria of earlier saved searches.
Information on how to set up this feature will be found in Ovid Help, under Saved Searches -> What’s an AutoAlert? For information about Enhanced AutoAlerts go to Saved Searches -> Running and Editing Saved Searches -> Enhanced AutoAlerts.
Ovid has also enabled a new feature called Personal Accounts. UC is getting
early access to this feature prior to its official release to other customers
because we requested it specifically to protect user privacy and ease of use
for AutoAlerts. It allows users to create their own user name and password,
similar to the existing Profile option in CDL-hosted databases. Ovid Resource
Liaisons participated in the beta test of this feature and Ovid implemented
all of their suggestions.
c. Changes in the Welcome Page for CDL-Hosted Databases
On Tuesday August 20, 2002, the welcome page for the CDL-hosted databases (http://www.dbs.cdlib.org) will change from its current display to a new display intended to better promote the use of the vendor versions of the transitioning databases, and to prepare for the retirement of the CDL-hosted versions at the end of December. This change is being made with the advice of and consultation with the Transition Steering Committee (TSC). This will be a significant change for many users of the Melvyl catalog and CDL-hosted databases.Specifically, the “More databases” pull down menu located at the bottom of the web page will be repositioned directly beneath the “news” section at the top of the page. The menu name will change from “more databases” to “UC licensed databases” which more accurately describes the content of this menu. (This menu is suppressed from the web page display when accessed by non-UC IP addresses, as is currently done with the “More databases” menu.)
Additionally, the CDL-hosted A&I databases will be removed from the CDL search interface (“Choose a database” menu), leaving only the Melvyl Catalog and Periodicals Titles databases available in what will now be the second menu.
A screen shot of the new page is available at: http://www.cdlib.org/images/newcdlhostedpage.jpg
After December 31, 2002, the “Melvyl Catalog/Periodicals Titles” welcome page (currently the CDL-hosted databases welcome page) will no longer provide access to any of the UC-licensed resources. Users will be able to reach the UC-licensed resources from the pull down menu on the CDL’s Collections & Services web page (http://www.cdlib.org/collections) or from links on campus library web sites.
d. Ex Libris Melvyl Tells
The second issue of El Mel Tells comes out today, August 15, with articles on how the display record for the Melvyl-T catalog is chosen, how the new catalog uses LC authority records, and continued profiles of CDL staff working on Melvyl-T. Check it out at http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/elmeltells/emtv1n2.html
2. UCIAS Digital Collection Debuts
University of California International and Area Studies (UCIAS) is pleased to announce the debut of the UCIAS Digital Collection (http://repositories.cdlib.org/uciaspubs/), a peer-reviewed electronic publications program. UCIAS is a partnership of the University of California Press, the eScholarship program at the California Digital Library (CDL), and internationally oriented research units on eight UC campuses.
UCIAS ( http://repositories.cdlib.org/uciaspubs/about.html ; ucias@uclink.berkeley.edu) publishes peer-reviewed articles, monographs, and edited volumes generated by research projects, workshops, seminars, and conferences at internationally oriented institutes, centers, and programs involving the University of California. The Digital Collection includes the new volume Dynamics of Regulatory Change: How Globalization Affects National Regulatory Policies, edited by David Vogel and Robert Kagan.
All publications are peer reviewed according to standards set by an interdisciplinary UCIAS editorial board. UC Press will publish and sell hard copy versions of selected UCIAS volumes. The digital publications will be available free of charge and made persistently available through the CDL.
The upper level of a two-tiered system, the UCIAS Digital Collection draws on working papers from UCIAS-affiliated research units throughout the UC system. If a working paper is submitted to the peer review process and successfully passes peer review, it is published in the UCIAS Digital Collection while the original working paper remains in the eScholarship Repository. Working papers are disseminated with other non-peer-reviewed material deposited in the eScholarship Repository (http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/), a central location for pre-publication scholarship.
The Repository and the Digital Collection are projects of the eScholarship program (http://www.escholarship.cdlib.org/), which was launched to facilitate scholar-led innovations and supports experiments in the production and dissemination of scholarly communications.
3. California Cultures Workshop Held August 6-7
On August 6th and 7th a two-day California Cultures workshop was held at the UCLA Library. Project managers and staff representing UC campus divisions (special collections and oral history units) participating in the California Cultures project, along with staff from UC Berkeley’s Library Systems Office (LSO), members of the OAC Working Group, OAC Manager, Robin Chandler, and the California Cultures Overall Project Manager Genie Guerard attended. Workshop sections included an overview of OAC Best Practice Guidelines for Digital Objects, database training, workflow procedures, and establishing project milestones.Brad Westbrook, chair of the CDL’s OAC Working Group Subcommittee on Metadata Standards, discussed the Best Practice Guidelines for Digital Objects, developed by the OAC Working Group over the last year. Complying with CDL digital object standards, these represent OAC’s standard for describing and maintaining digital objects, and inform the metadata requirements of the California Cultures project.
Training was provided to the project managers and staff in the use of a recently developed web-based interface to the GenDB, a database developed by UC Berkeley LSO for inputting digital objects metadata and exporting XML-based METS objects. Rick Beaubien, Lead Software Engineer for Research and Development in UC Berkeley’s Library Systems Office, and Genie Guerard, Overall Project Manager for California Cultures and local project manager for the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections, conducted the database training. To guide the project managers in use of the database, Guerard prepared an extensive manual which is available online through the California Cultures Project Website http://calcultures.cdlib.org [coming soon]
Robin Chandler, OAC Manager, contextualized the metadata input and export within the framework of the complete workflow cycle for the California Cultures project and provided guidelines for all tasks in the digitization process: selection of primary source materials to be digitized and their description; packaging, shipping, and tracking procedures; and communication lines among project participants. Chandler worked with campus project managers in establishing project milestones.
California Cultures will become one of the OAC’s digital research resources, focusing on the history of ethnic groups in California history. For additional information, see California Cultures Executive Summary, Library of Congress Grant, September 20, 2000 at http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/oac/,
4. Library Staff News
a. Maria Figueroa - New Addition to CDL Acquisitions
Maria Figueroa joined CDL Acquisitions in July 2002. One of Maria’s primary responsibilities will be to help maintain the CDL-licensed journal packages. In addition to updating subscription records, she will be actively monitoring the access online and working with the CDL Shared Catalogers and staff in Oakland to ensure the CDL Directory and shared cataloging records reflect current access. Questions and comments about journal titles can be directed to Maria at (858) 822-4954 or mdfigueroa@ucsd.edu.Maria graduated from UCSD in June 1996 with double majors in Political Science and Sociology. Since 1996 she has been employed by the UCSD Library.
5. 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.
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