CDLINFO LISTSERV, September 11, 2003 Vol.6 No.15 Issue
CONTENTS
- CDL Web Site Redesigns
- CDL Web Site and "Inside CDL" Sites Released
- Where did the CDL Directory Go?
- New Resources Available
- American Physiological Society (APS) Legacy Project (Jo Anne Boorkman, UCD)
- Thieme Science Journals
- Wilson Art Index Retrospective, Art Full Text: An Update (Susan Moon, UCSB)
- UC-eLinks Activated for America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts
- For More Information
- News and Events
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about CDLINFO
1. CDL Web Site Redesigns
a. CDL Web Site and “Inside CDL” Sites Released
The CDL is very pleased to announce the release of two new revised web sites as of Friday, September 5, 2003. The first is the “brochure” CDL web site, located at http://www.cdlib.org . This site is aimed at those wishing to know more about the CDL itself, its programs, partners and services. This is also the place for vendors to come to find out details of CDL technical requirements, metadata requirements, linking, etc.
The second site is Inside CDL and replaces CDL Libstaff. The site is located at http://www.cdlib.org/inside . Its audience is UC library staff, as well as users of CDL resources. The web site is divided into ten sections.
Both sites provide links to one another. From the brochure site, every page has a link to Inside CDL; from Inside CDL, a user must return to the home page to access the brochure site.
For password-protected documents, CDL has a new password. You can
obtain the password by going to < http://www.cdlib.org/inside/errors/password.html
>
and entering your UC email address. The password will be sent to you
immediately via email.
The revision process of the sites was enormously enhanced by the results of two staff surveys. Appreciation goes to those who participated in the surveys and informed the decisions made about the language, format, and arrangement of the sites.
The document “Suggestions for Linking into CDL Web-based Services” is located at <http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/suggestions4linking.html>.
Multiple redirects from the old to the new site were in place beginning at midnight Friday, September 5, and continuing for a substantial period of time.
Many thanks to the Redesign Team for its work in creating what we hope will be much improved and easier to navigate CDL websites.
We welcome your responses to the new sites via the Questions? Comments? link at the bottom of every page.
b. Where did the CDL Directory Go?
To access the CDL Directory from the home page <http://www.cdlib.org/ >, select Collections & Services from the left sidebar. Scroll down to Directory of CDL-Licensed Content <http://www.cdlib.org/directory>.
With the redesign of the CDL web pages which de-emphasizes the Directory, the CDL is following through on its attempt to encourage campus libraries to present their more complete lists of campus library digital resources directly to end users, rather than to identify the CDL as an end location.
The CDL has undergone a conscious shift in service orientation. We are now focusing on enhancing and enabling services such as the Melvyl catalog, Request, SFX (UC-eLinks), and preservation of digital content programs to libraries and librarians, rather than directly to end users.
The move to making the Directory less important as a destination for end users has been a gradual one that began with the journal article and index (A&I) database transition and continued with the Melvyl transition and release of the new CDL website. The CDL continues to assess the internal process for tracking our electronic systems. We will be revisiting the Directory after continuing to evaluate campus needs with their input, as part of this review.
2.New Resources Available
NOTE: New resources listed below 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 URL provided.
a. American Physiological Society (APS) Legacy Project now available (Jo Anne Boorkman, UCD)
CDL has completed licensing for the American Physiological Society (APS) Legacy Project that provides access to the backfiles of the Society's journals, many of which are parts of the American Journal of Physiology, <http://www.the-aps.org/publications/legacy/index.htm>. The titles include:* AJP - Cell Physiology 1977+
* AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism 1980+
* AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology 1980+
* AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology 1977+
* AJP - Lung, Cellular and Molecular Physiology 1989+
* AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 1977+
* AJP - Renal Physiology 1977+
* Advances in Physiology Education 1989+
* Journal of Applied Physiology 1966+
* Journal of Neurophysiology 1966+
* Physiological Genomics 1999+
* Physiological Reviews 1966+
* News in Physiological Sciences (NIPS) 1986+
The PIDs for UC-eLinks are now in place; however, issue level information may not be available for the most recent year for access to full-text from the A&I databases. In these cases the full-text will be available from the website listed above. Catalog records for local campus use will be forthcoming from the Shared Cataloging unit.
This legacy content is being delivered in three stages between now and the end of 2004 when the earliest years will become available. Journal issues published after the concluding dates of the legacy package now become available free 12 months after publication. To obtain articles within the 12 months after original publication, a campus subscription to the title will still be required. All UC campuses are included in this CDL-funded agreement that was negotiated by Karl Kocher and Jo Anne Boorkman at UC Davis on behalf of the UC Health and Life Sciences Selectors Group. Karl Kocher (kakocher@ucdavis.edu) will serve as Resource Liaison.
b. Thieme Science Journals
Current access to four Thieme journals is now available for all campuses at Thieme Connect <http://www.thieme-connect.com>. Thieme is an international scientific and medical publisher for physicians, scientists, technologists, students, and residents.The UC Chemistry Librarians, under the leadership of Christina Keil (UC San Diego), have negotiated a second agreement with Thieme publishers. In addition to the previously licensed journal archives of Synthesis and Synlett, all UC campuses now have access to the current volumes. Current access to the journals Plant Biology and Planta Medica is also available. Campuses have agreed to maintain their existing print subscriptions and the CDL has funded the online cost.
Syntheses & Synlett are core journals for organic chemistry that consistently rank in ISI's top twenty high impact organic chemistry journals. Planta Medica, the official publication of the Society for Medicinal Plant Research, focuses on the whole spectrum of medicinal plants and natural products. Plant Biology is the International Journal of the German Botanical Society and of the Royal Botanical Society of the Netherlands
Synthesis: http://uclibs.org/PID/11377
Synlett: http://uclibs.org/PID/11378
Planta Medica: http://uclibs.org/PID/21881
Plant Biology: http://uclibs.org/PID/21882
3. Wilson Art Index Retrospective, Art Full Text: An Update (Susan Moon, UCSB)
After discussions with H.W. Wilson, UC librarians, and CDL, some very useful changes were made to ArtFull Text and Art Index Retrospective.- Default for Basic search is now Boolean not Natural Language. Though the Advanced search is the default, there are occasions for using the Basic search. For example, if one did a search on “monet and haystacks” the search results under Natural language would include records which had either ‘Monet’ or ‘haystacks’ or both. Often the number of results were too numerous. Under Boolean searching there is an implied ‘and’ requiring that both terms appear somewhere in the record.
- Automatic stemming has been turned off. When automatic stemming is ‘on,’ the search engine takes the stem of a word being searched and uses it in its search, so the search is powerful but often overwhelming and unexpected.
- Truncation Users can now use * (asterisk) for
truncation, i.e., search the stem or partial phrase and use * to
find the search term and its variations. Example:
modern architecture: result 7,418
modernist architecture: result 1,834
modern* architecture: result 9,341 (includes modernist, modernism & modern) - Wildcard Users can now use ? (question mark)
for a wildcard. Example
wom?n: result 34,574 (eek!)
women: result 18,777
woman: result 20,736
- Art Abstracts has been subsumed by Art Full Text; that is why it no longer appears in the list of databases to be checked off when first logging into the Wilson site. Art Index Retrospective and Art Full Text should both appear and both (depending upon the search) can be checked. Bibliographic guides need only point to Art Retro or Full Text
- When a search is done in Art Full Text and the user looks at the citations, it is sometimes unclear why a particular citation was part of the result. H.W. Wilson clarified this by saying that the search term would appear in the full text of the citation (html or pdf). I have found this to be true in the searches I tried out, but it is confusing for a patron not to see the term they searched appear anywhere in the citation.
4. UC-eLinks Activated for America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts
UC-eLinks has now been activated for articles ONLY in two ABC-Clio products: America: History & Life (AHL) and Historical Abstracts (HA). Resource Liaison Ellen Broidy (UCLA) tested the service before its release. We are negotiating with ABC-Clio to have the UC-eLinks icon appear on all of the records in the database, rather than just for articles, since UC is supporting more than linking to full text through UC-eLinks, e.g., links to catalog holdings, Request, and Ask-a-Librarian.
In order to have the UC-eLinks icon appear on all of the records, ABC-Clio needs to create an OpenURL for all of the records. ABC-Clio informs us that it will take them several months to work with the underlying data structure to make this function the way we need.
In America: History & Life we hope to add links to book and media reviews and dissertations. In Historical Abstracts we would like to add these links as well as links to books.
5. For More Information
a. CDL News and Events
Several items of interest, including "News and Events," yearly highlights, press releases, and previous issues of CDLINFO are posted on the CDL Web site [http://www.cdlib.org/] under News & Publications. 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/inside.
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.
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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