CONTENTS
- New Resource Available
- Ethnic NewsWatch Historical File
- Chemical and Engineering News Online (Mary Ann Mahoney, UCB)
- Economist Intelligence Unit (Gary Peete, UCB)
- Request Service to Expand to Undergraduates
- CDL and UCSD Explore Possibilities for Technology Co-Development
- Union Catalog RFP Update
- Publicly Accessible CDL Resources
- Government Information Initiatives Advisory Group Appointed
- CDL Staff News
- John Ober Appointed to Open Archives Initiative Steering Committee
- Bob Brandriff Leaving the CDL
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about CDLINFO
1. New Resource Available
a. Ethnic NewsWatch Historical File
The CDL has entered a charter subscription for the Ethnic NewsWatch Historical File. The first release of "Ethnic NewsWatch: A History" will be available in Fall/Winter 2000 - with completion scheduled for Winter 2003. When complete, it will cover the period 1960 - 1989. When combined with the current Ethnic NewsWatch file (1990-) the file spans 40 years and will include approximately 1 million articles.
Ethnic NewsWatch: A History is an historical database of approximately 150 newspapers, magazines, and journals published by the ethnic and minority press in the U.S. Every title is fully indexed and includes the full-text of the article. Ethnic NewsWatch is the only electronic source for many publications, particularly those publications giving "the other side of the stories" on local, national, international, social and cultural issues - a necessary complement to the mainstream media and traditional periodical reference sources
The historical backfile of Ethnic NewsWatch gives researchers the points of view of publishers and journalists representing ethnic minorities and native peoples. The Civil Rights movement of the '60s; Johnson's Great Society; Reaganomics; the Vietnam War - issues such as these are covered from the perspectives of the African-American, Hispanic, Asian-American, Native People, and other ethnic groups.
The Resource Liaison for Ethnic NewsWatch is Dan Tsang, UC Irvine.
NOTE: The following new resources are not yet in the CDL Directory of Collections and Services; they will be added within the next 2 weeks. You can access them directly from the URLs provided.
b. Chemical and Engineering News Online (Mary Ann Mahoney, UCB)
The American Chemical Society has selected the California Digital Library as one of ten institutions to participate in a special program designed to measure the usage of Chemical and Engineering News Online [http://pubs.acs.org/cen/] in an institutional setting.
C&EN Online is the electronic version of Chemical & Engineering News, the "newsmagazine of the chemical world." Coverage includes academic, regulatory, research, and business issues relating to chemistry and chemical engineering. C&EN Online is available free to all ACS members, but there is no institutional access outside of this study.
Our access to the journal is by IP address; however, READERS MUST STILL REGISTER. When you register, you designate your own username and password, which are valid for the life of the study (at least a year). You only have to register once.
Each campus has a pilot study coordinator that you can contact if you have additional questions:
- Mary Ann Mahoney at UCB (mmahoney@library.berkeley.edu)
- Carol La Russa at UCD (cjlarussa@ucdavis.edu)
- April Love at UCI (amlove@uci.edu)
- Marion Peters at UCLA (mpeters@library.ucla.edu)
- Julie Mason at UCR (julie.mason@ucr.edu)
- Deborah Kegel at UCSD (dkegel@ucsd.edu)
- David Owen at UCSF (owen@library.ucsf.edu)
- Chuck Huber at UCSB (huber@library.ucsb.edu)
- Catherine Soehner at UCSC (soehner@cats.ucsc.edu)
Work is currently in progress to provide article-level linking to C&EN Online from A&I databases.
The Resource Liaison for American Chemical Society journals is Mary Ann Mahoney, UC Berkeley.
c. Economist Intelligence Unit (Gary Peete, UCB)
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Profiles and Reports, licensed through a co-investment by UC campuses and the CDL, are now available in electronic format at http://db.eiu.com/publications.asp. Five different UC subject selector groups recommended systemwide licensing of this resource.
EIU Profiles and Reports provide timely analysis and forecasts of the political, economic, social, and business environment in a total of 126 reports about more than 180 countries. They present the political and economic structure of the country, the current political scene, economic policy, domestic economy (covering industry, agriculture, money and finance), foreign trade and payments, and the outlook for 2000-01. Country reports are archived online (web) from 1996 forward.
These authoritative and objective publications are a powerful supplement to the often less timely information published by governments and international organizations. For those countries that normally do not produce current information, these studies are a primary means of determining the conditions within a nation. The EIU Annual Profile series is updated by quarterly reports.
Country profiles are typically around 70 pages of textual analysis and data on a specific country, while the updating reports are about 30 pages in length. Produced in both HTML and PDF formats, EIU country studies are available electronically from 1996 onward.
The Resource Liaison for Economist Intelligence Unit is Gary Peete, UC Berkeley.
2. Request Service to Expand to Undergraduates
The Request Service for books from the catalog and articles from CDL-mounted databases will soon also be available to undergraduates. Undergraduates may submit up to 5 requests per day (Faculty and Graduates Students can request up to 20 items a day).
The release schedule is as follows:
September 11-19: Testing by Library Staff (send all comments/suggestion to cdl@www.cdlib.org)
September 21: Public Release Date
For additional details about the extension to undergraduates please contact your campus Request liaison, listed below.
Additional changes to Request include:
- New interface design for the following screens: email confirmation and review page
- Addition of a "need by date" option (the user must select a date after which they will no longer need the item in the event of a delay in delivery)
- Addition of SRLF barcodes (implementation is dependent on loading from ORION2)
- UCLA patrons can now request SRLF items
- Multiple titles problem is now fixed (foreign titles with multiple ISSN numbers)
- Chapter requests from BIOSIS and PsycINFO are available
Request Liaisons:
- UCB - C. Rubens
- UCD - G. Nichols
- UCI - L. Weinberger/M. Tapper
- UCLA - E. Adams
- UCR - J. Moores
- UCSD - D. Kegel
- UCSF - E. Amrine
- UCSB - G. Johnson
- UCSC - D. Turner
3. CDL and UCSD Explore Possibilities for Technology Co-Development
Staff from the CDL and from the UCSD Libraries held a two-day meeting in late July to discuss possibilities for collaborating on the development of technology-based services and tools. Among the nearly twenty attendees there was agreement on the advantages of co-development and in the value of establishing a model for other two-way and multi-part collaborations among the UC libraries. The meeting resulted in the enumeration of general cooperative development processes that could be applied in many projects. A project plan for the development of an improved and sustainable multi-database search interface - the evolution of SearchLight - was also framed. Principals at the meeting are preparing further information for all-campus and CDL advisory groups.
Please contact Laine Farley or David Walker at the CDL or Bruce Miller at UCSD for more information.
4. Union Catalog RFP Update
As you know, the CDL has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) to determine if the Melvyl Union Catalog and CDL-hosted Databases can be moved from their aging technology infrastructure to a commercial vendor's system [see CDLINFO February 14, 2000, Vol.3, No.2 http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo021400.html#4]. The RFP process must adhere to University policy and be conducted in a fair and impartial manner. Given that these CDL resources represent some of the most important tools used by University faculty, librarians and students for research, teaching and learning, this process must select the system that best meets their needs. The process for writing the RFP has laid this groundwork by seeking advice on the RFP's content from the entire university community. The evaluation of the RFP responses, which continues this effort, is now being conducted.
The CDL RFP Evaluation Steering Committee (ESC) is an important part of this process. It is analyzing responses to the functional requirements of the RFP. The committee is comprised of library stakeholders who represent the needs of faculty and students, as well as themselves, and it includes one representative from each campus library and two from the CDL (members are listed below). Independent consultants will be available to advise the ESC, as needed, in this analysis process.
The ESC has also been charged with preparing narrative evaluations of each qualifying response to the RFP. The purpose of these reviews is to identify and explicate major trade-offs between the vendor systems and to discuss if any system provides sufficient functionality to replace the current Melvyl and CDL-hosted Databases.
The ESC will conclude its work by forwarding their preliminary analysis of the RFP's functional requirements to a smaller Evaluation Team who will score each qualifying response.
The Evaluation Team will consist of the Chair of the Evaluation Steering Committee, the Director of CDL Technologies, the Director of CDL Digital Library Services, and three campus representatives. The Evaluation Team will analyze a "life-cycle" cost, calculate a required "cost per quality point" for each vendor and make its final recommendation to the CDL University Librarian.
At several points in the process evaluation may include site visits, oral presentations, product demonstrations, additional material, information, or references from the suppliers and others.
Members of the evaluation steering committee are the best sources of information about the RFP process. Please consult with your campus member if you have questions.
Evaluation Steering Committee members include:
- Diane Bisom, UCI
- Bob Brandriff, CDL (ex officio)
- Karen Coyle, CDL (ex officio)
- Laine Farley, CDL
- Cheryl Gomez, UCSC
- Jon Good, UCOP, IR&C
- Bernie Hurley, UCB (Chair)
- Ann Jensen, UCB
- Julia Kochi, UCSF
- Terry Ryan, UCLA
- Catherine Nelson, UCSB
- John Ober, CDL (ex officio)
- Susan Starr, UCSD
- John Tanno, UCR
- David Walker, CDL
- Gail Yokote, UCD
5. Publicly Accessible CDL Resources
A new 2-page listing and summary of CDL-hosted resources and services that are available for public use is available on the "adaptable outreach materials" web page at http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/comm/outreach.
6. Government Information Initiatives Advisory Group Appointed
The CDL has appointed a Government Information Initiatives Advisory Group to be convened by Beverlee French, Associate University Librarian and Director for Shared Content for the CDL. The expected term of service is July 2000-June 2002.
Background
In 1999 the CDL launched an investigation with the goal of developing strategies to enhance and assure persistent access to digital information produced by all levels of government. With eight federal and state "depository libraries", the CDL will build on the UC commitment to provide government information to all citizens in California through its digital government information initiatives. The CDL's government information initiatives will serve audiences throughout California-libraries, businesses, government agencies, teachers and students--as well as the UC faculty, students and staff. They will have both content and service components. The CDL Government Information Initiatives Advisory Group will be asked to consider this breadth of government information users and uses in providing guidance to the CDL and its Steering Committee on Shared Collections.
The CDL's first government information initiative is a project called California Counts, a resource that will aggregate government-produced numeric data and make it accessible and manipulable through a single Web interface. The California State Library (CSL) and the CDL have signed an Interagency Agreement whereby agrees to fund prototype development and the CDL agrees to facilitate development of California Counts.
Charge
The CDL seeks guidance from the Government Information Initiatives Advisory Group on the following issues:
- Advise on strategic priorities for CDL government information initiatives, including those that support extension of CDL services beyond the University.
- Advise on potential partners and strategies for long-term sustenance and funding of successful CDL government information initiatives.
- Advise on potential grant proposals and on mechanisms to fulfill the objectives of existing grants.
- Advise on appropriate consultative and evaluation mechanisms for development of government information content and tools. These may include developing strategic partnerships with agencies.
- Advise on appropriate outreach and education aspects of government information initiatives.
Current Members:
Thomas Andersen
California State Library
Ann Cousineau
Solano County Public Library
Patricia Cruse (ex officio)
California Digital Library
Laine Farley
California Digital Library
Beverlee French
California Digital Library
Jacqueline Hanson
University of California, San Diego
Barbara Jeffus
California Department of Education
Andres Jimenez
California Policy Research Center
John Jewell
California State Library
Karen Kemp
University of Redlands
Linda Kennedy
University of California, Davis
Brent Miller
California State Library
Daniel Schiller, Professor
University of California, San Diego
Elizabeth Stephenson
University of California, Los Angeles
Milt Ternberg
University of California, Berkeley
Haas School of Business
The following site provides background information on CDL government information initiatives: www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/gii/.
7. CDL Staff News
a. John Ober Appointed to Open Archives Initiative Steering Committee
John Ober (CDL Director for Education and Strategic Innovation) has been named to the steering committee of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI).The OAI was originally sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), the Digital Library Federation, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Its focus began on the interoperation of "e-print archives" (collections of electronic journal articles and preprints), defining an approach known as metadata harvesting. In this approach, there are data providers and service providers. Data providers (such as individual e-print archives) support a simple harvesting protocol and provide extracts of metadata in a common, minimal-level format in response to requests from service providers. Service providers use extracted metadata to build higher level, user-oriented services, such as catalogs and portals to materials distributed across multiple e-print sites. There is considerable interest in extending the OAI concepts beyond their initial context in order to support metadata harvesting for a wider range of digital resources of academic and scholarly interest.
A press release and more information are available at www.openarchives.org.
b. Bob Brandriff Leaving the CDL
Bob Brandriff has accepted a position in the UCOP Information Resources & Communications department. Bob has been a mainstay of library automation at UC for over 20 years; his contributions are countless. He will be missed greatly.
Bob will continue to work 80% time for CDL-T through November 2000; primarily documenting and explaining the systems he has been responsible for, as well as helping with the RFP evaluation.
Several CDL positions are currently being recruited; the recruitment for Bob's replacement will begin shortly.
For job vacancies please see: http://www.ucop.edu/humres/jobbull.html.
8. For More Information
a. CDL News
Several items of interest, including "Milestones," "Highlights 1997-1998," "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 "News" 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
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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.