CDLINFO LISTSERV, September 20, 2000, Vol.3, No.13
CONTENTS
- New Resource Available
- Harcourt Health Sciences Collection
- Academic Universe Adds Shepard's® for Supreme Court Cases (Linda Kennedy, UCD)
- Desktop Delivery Task Force Appointed (Claire Bellanti, SRLF/UCLA)
- Request for Undergraduates Available September 21
- MyLibrary@CDL Prototype Reminder
- Statistical Information Available
- CDL Staff News
- Kelcy Shepherd Joins the Online Archive of California
- Jim Edwards and Robin Kotowski Join CDL-T
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about CDLINFO
1. New Resource Available
a. Harcourt Health Sciences Collection
Harcourt Health Sciences Collection of 64 medical and scientific journals is now available through Academic Press [http://www.idealibrary.com/].
A complete list of journals published now on IDEAL is viewable at http://www.idealibrary.com/links/journals.
NOTE: The Harcourt Health Sciences journals 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.
b. Academic Universe Adds Shepard's® for Supreme Court Cases (Linda Kennedy, UCD)
After extensive negotiations, Lexis-Nexis has implemented Shepard's® Citation Service for U.S. Supreme Court cases on LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe. (Academic Universe, a Tier 2 resource, is available at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Barbara.) Shepard's® is one of the tools on which legal researchers rely to validate their citations and to locate additional authorities that support their arguments.
To directly access this feature, click on the link in Legal Research entitled "Shepard's® for U.S. Supreme Court."
Two versions are available:
- Shepard's® For Validation (KWIC) limits your results to Subsequent Appellate History and those citing references that have editorial analysis or that were added within the most recent two months.
- Shepard's® For Research (FULL) provides Prior History and Subsequent Appellate History as well as all citing references from cases, statutes, law reviews and periodicals, and other secondary sources.
You can also "Shepardize" a Supreme Court case once the case is retrieved from the other search menus in the legal research area. The Shepard's® logo will be displayed as a hypertext link at the top left of the page. If the case is not a Supreme Court case, you will receive an error message. Lexis-Nexis indicates it will try to negotiate the addition of Shephardizing for other types of cases, but the chances of success are not promising.
Other new additions to Academic Universe:
Asian Women (November 1993-)
Bulletin of the World Health Organization (1999-)
Gender Matters Quarterly (February 1999-)
Gender Studies News and Views (September 1994-)
Investors Chronicle (1990-)
Lloyd's List (9/24/99-)
Les Echos (French business newspaper, 1993-)
Resources Removed (Gannett newspapers):
Cincinnati Enquirer
Detroit News
Des Moines Register
Information on titles added and deleted from Academic Universe by month, plus text and Excel lists of all titles is available at: http://cisweb.lexis-nexis.com/marketsource/reports.htm.
General Searching Tips
- Searching for a specific title - choose "Sources" in the topmost menu bar.
- Getting information about a title - choose "About this Title" from the results screen to get coverage-date, selected or full-text, timing of updates.
- Going directly to the resource - choose "Search This Title" (this takes you to the appropriate search screen to retrieve text from the work).
Note: The Academic Universe Source List, which lists more than five thousand titles, continues to be error prone, although a number of "Search this Title" errors were fixed this summer. A new product manager for academic content, Stephen Want, has been hired. He will be conducting a review of the source list in order to ensure that it accurately reflects the publication content, maps to the correct search screen, and to add ISSN numbers.
Academic Universe Categories
One of the peculiar facets of Academic Universe is how it categorizes information. For example, Academic Universe includes a number of gender-related titles (journals such as the Journal of Gender Studies and pamphlet material such as Position Paper on "Honor Killings") that are searched under "Industry News" in the News category, not a place one would normally think of looking. Gender-related titles that are more legal in nature are searched under Law Reviews.
2. Desktop Delivery Task Group (Claire Bellanti, SRLF/UCLA)
In August 2000, the University Librarians appointed a task group to make recommendations on software and hardware for "Desktop Delivery." UC has defined "desktop delivery" to mean secure web delivery of scanned documents directly to UC faculty, students and staff. Requestors will be notified by email when the document is ready to read and/or copy from a secure web page.
The task group consists of:
Claire Bellanti (SRLF/UCLA), Chair
Marlayna Gates (UCSB)
Donna Gulnac (UCLA)
Deborah Kegel (UCSD)
Scott Miller (NRLF/UCB)
The Task Group has been given an ambitious timeline with implementation scheduled to begin within six months. The Desktop Delivery Group will work with the PIR/Request Team to explore the integration of this function with the Request infrastructure.
3. Request for Undergraduates Available September 21
On September 21, the Request service will be extended to all UC Undergraduates. Undergraduates may request 5 items per day from the Melvyl Catalog and a combined total of 5 items from all other abstracting and indexing databases (Faculty and Graduate Students may submit up to 20 requests from each).
Other system enhancements take effect as well, notably real-time checking of patron status (with the exception of UCSB where the patron files are updated on a daily basis, m-f) and the addition of a user-selected option to ask for an email copy of the confirmation of requested items.
Note: PE, NEWS, and databases with "@" in the name are currently not available for Request.
Descriptive documents have been updated to reflect the most recent changes to the Request service (available on the Libstaff Outreach Materials page: http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/comm/outreach/#tools). The documents include:
- Library Staff Briefing Notes: detailed description of the Request Service (including background information, recent changes and future plans)
- Adaptable Description of Request: text for campus library staff to incorporate into locally produced promotional and descriptive materials
In addition, the Request User Guide has been updated [http://www.cdlib.org/guides/request/].
4. MyLibrary@CDL Prototype Reminder
This is a reminder that the MyLibrary@CDL prototype is available for testing. During the test phase (July-December 2000) feedback through evaluation activities and directly from library staff is being gathered. While the service is not yet ready to offer to patrons, library staff may want to show it to patrons for initial reactions. Please send all feedback to cdl@www.cdlib.org.
CDL Evaluation Liaisons on several campuses will be conducting focus groups this fall to gather information about users expectations regarding customization tools and suggestions for improving the MyLibrary@CDL interface. So far, UCB, UCSF, and UCSB are planning to conduct focus groups. For information about this focus group effort and collaborative evaluation activities contact your campus evaluation liaisons or Rosalie Lack. A list of liaisons is maintained at http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/education/evaluation/.
Please Note: MyLibrary@CDL is NOT ready to link to your library web site or promote to users until it moves to production (scheduled July 2001), however it is fine to let users try it out, but they should understand it is in an early test phase and has limitations.
MyLibrary@CDL prototype available at: http://mylibrary.cdlib.org/.
Important Release Notes available at: [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/july2000/mylibrary/]. MyLibrary@CDL is not linked to any of the public pages at this time.
5. Statistical Information Available
The Usage Statistics page on Libstaff has been updated [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/stats/]. There are several new 1999 and 2000 usage data reports that include usage data "by campus" and "by journal title."
6. CDL Staff News
a. Kelcy Shepherd Joins the Online Archive of California
Kelcy Shepherd joins the CDL as a project archivist for the Online Archive of California. Kelcy will be working on a number of projects through May 2001 that include creating an online manual for the metadata database used by OAC digitization grants and revising and improving the OAC help pages. Kelcy holds an MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons College in Boston and has held archivist positions at the Northeastern University Archives and most recently at the UC Berkeley Environmental Design Archives.
b. Jim Edwards and Robin Kotowski Join CDL-T
Jim and Robin will provide temporary, full-time programming assistance for database development and maintenance under the direction of Linda Gallaher-Brown. They will be taking on various responsibilities to keep the mainframe software that processes campus and vendor data into the CDL mounted databases running smoothly and effectively for users.
Both Jim and Robin have extensive Information Technology experience. Jim's recent experience includes Y2K projects for the Automobile Club in Costa Mesa. Robin worked recently for Semiconductor and Discount Brokerage agencies.
7. 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
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