CDLINFO LISTSERV, September 12, 2002, Vol.5, No.16
CONTENTS
- CDL Database Transitions
- UC-eLinks Pop-Up Window Version 1.3 Coming Next Week
- Eureka Telnet Access to RLG Databases to Retire November 29
- New Resource Available
- CRCnetBASE - 12 New Titles
- Open Access Ejournal Content
- UC TLtC Seeks Librarian Input (Paula Murphy, TLtC)
- eScholarship Repository Update
- Library Staff News
- Mary Engle Moves to Part-Time
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about CDLINFO
1. CDL Database Transitions
a. UC-eLinks Pop-Up Window Version 1.3 Coming Next Week
A new version of the UC-eLinks pop-up window will be released next week. Several improvements in this interface have been made, based on what was learned in usability testing.
1. The entire phrases (below) have been underlined in blue, making it clearer that they are hyperlinks
--Full text available from <vendor name>
--See if your campus library has this. Check the Melvyl Catalog/Periodicals
--For Interlibrary Loan or document delivery use Request
2. In the top of the pop-up window, it now says "UC-eLinks Netscape" or "UC-eLinks-Microsoft Internet Explorer" (rather than SFX). When this window is minimized, the user now sees "UC-eLinks" in the menu bar on the bottom of the screen, rather than "SFX".
A future release of this product will include a feedback mechanism that sends
the on-screen citation along with the user’s query making it easier to
identify any problems.
b. Eureka Telnet Access to RLG Databases to Retire November 29
The CDL received the following message from RLG:
”Your institution is one of only a few still using the telnet version of Eureka to search an RLG database. The number of Eureka telnet searches is a small percentage of your total search volume.
“RLG has continued to add enhancements to the Eureka Web version. The one RLG released earlier this year provides a much faster, easier to use interface than earlier Web versions, with a command line which allows your users to search with familiar Eureka telnet indexes, if desired. (See the February 2002 issue of RLG Focus: http://www.rlg.org/r-focus/i54#eureka.) You can try some free sample searches with the Eureka Web version at: http://www.rlg.org/eureka.html.
“RLG will discontinue Eureka telnet access to all RLG databases on November 29, 2002. We trust this advance notification will provide you adequate time to delete the links to the telnet version on your Web site. We appreciate your use of RLG resources, and the RLG Information Center would welcome your comments (bl.ric@rlg.org).”
What does this mean for you and your users? As of November 30, users will no longer have access to any of the RLG/Eureka databases via Eureka's telnet or via USE Eureka from CDL's telnet. They will have access to the following databases only via Eureka's native web interface:
Bibliography of the History of Art
Francis
Hand Press Book File
Index to 19th Century Art Periodicals
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
Inside Information Plus
Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliography
SCIPIO
If you direct your users to go to CDL's telnet and then type USE Eureka to get to any of these databases, please replace these instructions with URLs to these databases in Eureka.
The following RLG/Eureka databases will still be available via both CDL's telnet and web Z39.50 interfaces through the end of December, as well as in Eureka's native web interface:
Anthropological Literature
Avery Index
Chicano Databases
English Short Title Catalogue
History of Science and Technology
RLIN Bibliographic File
2. New Resource Available
A list of recently added content is always available at: http://www.cdlib.org/news/whatsnew.html
a. CRCnetBASE – 12 New Titles
The CDL has purchased perpetual access to 12 new titles from CRCnetBASE and all nine campuses will share the annual access fees.
- ATSDR’s Toxological Profiles [Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease
Registry (ATSDR), U.S. Public Health Services] [http://uclibs.org/PID/9550]
Toxological Profiles translates over 40,000 pages of data on the mitigation
of health effects, data gaps, and all available health data. Rigorously peer-reviewed,
this work covers the toxicological effects of hazardous substances, chemicals,
and compounds. Each profile includes an examination, summary, and interpretation
of available toxicological and epidemiological data evaluations on the hazardous
substance.
- Auerbach Publications [http://www.itknowledgebase.net]
Wide range of publications in the IT field, including the IT KnowledgeBase
-CRC Journals [http://www.crcjournals.com]
Includes journal titles in the area of chemistry, engineering, environmental
science, food sciences, life sciences, medicine, and physics.
-ENGnetBASE [http://uclibs.org/PID/3805]
Engineering Handbooks Online
-ENVIROnetBASE [http://uclibs.org/PID/9548]
Environmental sciences handbooks with figures, charts, tables, illustrations,
formulas, and rules of thumb. ENVIROnetBASE offers a comprehensive selection
of references that are cross-referenced, fully searchable, hyperlinked, and
cross-indexed.
-Food Chemical News (FCN) [http://uclibs.org/PID/9547]
FCN Publication - information on food regulation and related breaking news.
FCN publications include: Food Chemical News, Food Chemical News Daily, and
Food Chemical News Guide.
-FOODnetBASE (Not yet available)
Food Science Handbooks
-FORENSICnetBASE [http://uclibs.org/PID/9546]
Forensic science and criminal justice references
-InfoSECURITYnetBASE [ http://uclibs.org/PID/9545]
Information industry security mgmt., policies, procedures, news, risk analysis,
computer-related crime, etc.
-MATHnetBASE [http://uclibs.org/PID/9549]
Mathematics Handbooks
-POLYMERSnetBASE (Not yet available)
Polymer Science Handbooks
-STATSnetBASE [http://uclibs.org/PID/9551]
Statistics handbooks covering environmental statistics, introductory statistics,
probability theory & applications, reference statistics, SPC/reliability/quality
control, statistical theory & methods, statistics & computing, biological
sciences, business & finance, engineering & physical science, medicine
& health science.
3. Open Access Ejournal Content
The CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) recommended, and SOPAG concurred, that selected freely available ejournal content be linked (via UC-eLinks), cataloged by Shared Cataloging, entered into the CDL Directory, and monitored as other resources are (see the JSC notes of May 20, 2002 at http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/jsc/ ). Although the resources may be open access, these actions represent considerable investments but are designed to reduce similar kinds of investments each campus might have to make in these resources. Even though a license will not be signed for these resources and there is no formal negotiation process with a vendor, as much as possible, these open access resources will follow existing procedures for licensed packages. There are two categories of such ejournals:
1. Open access ejournals that are indexed by shared abstracting & indexing databases e.g., J. of Clinical Investigation and the BioMed Central journals--all indexed in PubMed. These will be added as described above as they are recommended or discovered. The Joint Steering Committee has asked bibliographer groups to alert them to such titles and the abstracting/indexing sources that cover them. The recent JSC surveys specifically asked about such titles.
2. "Unsubscribed" (i.e., there is no historic print base in UC) titles to which all campuses have access as part of a CDL publisher package contract.
Once resources have been selected, the Shared Catalog Program (SCP) at UCSD will catalog them. UC-eLinks will be implemented, where possible. The resources will be added to the CDL Directory and announced via CDL Directory weekly updates and in CDLINFO. For each resource or package, either a resource liaison will be assigned or the SCP department will be responsible for monitoring long-term access to that resource.
Remember, in the CDL Directory, you can limit your search to items available to the general public (under the “available to:” pull down) and in the search results all openly available resource titles are in green and include a note stating that they are available to the general public.
4. UC TLtC Seeks Librarian Input (Paula Murphy, TLtC)
Because librarians have unique insights into how digital tools can be used to help students learn, especially in the area of information access, the UC Teaching, Learning & technology Center (TLtC) is soliciting the input of the UC librarian community into how it can more directly serve its interests.
The TLtC’s efforts in this area thus far have been in publishing in its webzine last April articles on information literacy (http://www.uctltc.org/news/2002/04/feature.html) and the development of the new UC Merced library (http://www.uctltc.org/news/2002/04/merced.html). The TLtC webzine also has a special discussion forum set up for library issues, which librarians are free to use to post messages related to instructional technology (http://www.uctltc.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=13). [Note: site registration is required.] The TLtC is also working with Susan Lessick, a librarian from UCI, to develop an educational piece for the UC community about issues related to intellectual property and copyright and how they impact collaborative efforts to develop uses of instructional technology.
The TLtC would appreciate your feedback on how it can work with librarians to further the appropriate use of technology in instruction at UC. Contact Paula Murphy, Managing Editor, at paula.murphy@ucop.edu.
5. eScholarship Repository Update
The eScholarship Repository--a central location for faculty working papers, pre-publications, and technical reports--is entering the second phase in its rollout. To see the repository in action, including a complete list of groups that have joined, visit http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/.In the first phase (begun in April 2002), UC Organized Research Units (ORUs), Multi-Campus Research Units (MRUs), centers, and departments with established pre-publication series were invited to include their content in the repository. Identification and initial discussions with these early adopters were greatly assisted by staff at campus libraries, following briefings with ULs and campus visits by eScholarship staff. eScholarship will continue with campus visits this fall for forums with faculty and with librarians. A complete schedule is available at http://www.escholarship.cdlib.org/campusvisits.html.
To date 25 ORUs, centers, and departments from 5 campuses have joined the repository, and 37 UC staff have been trained to upload papers to the repository. The eScholarship Repository now contains 427 papers. There have been 17,317full-text downloads since April--over 2,000 last week alone.
The second phase of the repository’s rollout begins this month. The repository is being extended to all UC campuses and all disciplines; initially most units were from the social sciences, but groups from the humanities and sciences have also joined. bepress, the company whose software is used in the repository, has been engaged by the CDL's eScholarship program to provide training and support for the repository rollout.
Although most trainings on the eScholarship Repository are conducted over the phone, there are occasional on-campus trainings, though none are scheduled right now. Library staff are always welcome to attend part or all of a repository training session. A schedule of those trainings can be found at http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/campus_training.html.
Initial contact with campus units is made in a letter written jointly by principals from CDL and bepress introducing the repository and its benefits. Follow-up contact will be made by bepress over the next few months, though some potential repository participants may direct questions to library staff as well.
Any UC department, research unit, or center interested in joining the repository should visit http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/join.html, which has complete information on the joining process and a submission form.
6. Library Staff News
a. Mary Engle Moves to Part-Time
The CDL regrets to report that Shared Content Analyst Mary Engle has relocated to southern California. Hired by the Division of Library Automation (DLA) in 1979, Mary filled a number of roles in her UC career. She led the documentation group, staffed the Computer Files Committee, served as editor and photographer for the DLA Bulletin, and worked on special project for Director Lynch. She was an active contributor to the NISO Z39.80 standard on bibliographic downloading formats.
It is difficult to imagine the CDL without Mary who was well known for her negotiating skills for systemwide databases at DLA long before there was a CDL or any other library consortium. Although the CDL expects to begin a recruitment to fill her position permanently, we are fortunate that Mary is continuing to work for the CDL from a distance, part-time, with occasional travel to Oakland. She will continue to work with vendors, participate in conference calls, and communicate with bibliographers. Mary can still be reached by email (Mary.Engle@ucop.edu) and voicemail at CDL. If you need to speak directly and immediately to her, please call the CDL offices at 510.987.0425 to be referred.
7. 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
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