CDLINFO LISTSERV, September 25, 2003 Vol.6 No. 16 Issue

CONTENTS

1. New Issue of El Mel Tells
2. New Resources Available
1. Safari Tech Books Online
2. NewsBank
3. New UC Libraries Web Site
4. Campus Instances of UC-eLinks Update
5. For More Information
1. News and Events
2. Contacts for Questions or Problems
3. Information about CDLINFO

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1. New Issue of El Mel Tells

The latest issue of El Mel Tells http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/melvyl/elmeltells/emtv2v5.html> covers all of the functionality available in "Previous Searches". It also describes how to create a durable link for a search or an item in Melvyl.

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2. New Resources Available

a. Safari Tech Books Online

Safari Tech Books Online negotiations were completed by Julia Gelfand at UCI. Six participating campuses will pay an annual subscription fee and share 15 simultaneous user ports for the IT collection: Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, and Santa Cruz.

Safari Tech Books Online offers an exclusive collection of highly acclaimed reference content from a premier IT publisher, O’Reilly & Associates, Inc. New titles are available in Safari Tech Books Online even before they appear in print. There are 119 books in the initial UC collection. New O’Reilly books will be added automatically as they are published during the contract year, September 2003 through August 2004.

The URL for participating campuses is:
http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/ <ENTER ISBN>


b. NewsBank

On the recommendation of the Joint Steering Committee and several bibliographer groups, CDL signed a license agreement for annual access to NewsBank’s WebNews for all campuses except UC San Francisco and UC Riverside.

WebNews <http://www.uclibs.org/PID/23120> is an online resource that provides full-text access to 269 individual newspaper titles, including 47 California titles. WebNews includes the full text of all staff-written news features (excluding Tasini copyright related articles), special interest stories, editorials, daily columns, and letters to the editor, sports reports, community events, and more. WebNews is ideal for tracking information at the state, national and international levels. Each title includes what is considered as the “electronic edition of record”. Updates are available the next day after publication (24 hrs.).

CDL would like to thank Elliot Kanter at UC San Diego for his research and input during the trial review stage.

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3. New UC Libraries Web Site

A new web site featuring the collective challenges, strategies, plans, and systemwide operations of the UC libraries has been launched at http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu. Hosted by the CDL and the Office of Systemwide Library Planning, the site was designed and structured under the guidance of the University Librarians and SOPAG.

The entire site was developed to facilitate the evolving partnership for mutual communication and exploration of library and scholarly communication issues between UC faculty, the Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee (SLASIAC), the University Librarians, the office of Systemwide Library Planning and others, as requested by SLASIAC. A section especially for faculty titled “Reshaping Scholarly Communication” currently highlights economic and other challenges to maintaining great UC library collections and encourages active exploration of new approaches to scholarly communication.

Additional sections summarize systemwide challenges and strategic plans, and the effect of the state and UC fiscal crisis on libraries. Another aggregates information from SOPAG and the all-campus advisory groups, each of which will have a presence on the site.

Comments and feedback are welcome through the link at the bottom of each page on the site.

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4. Campus Instances of UC-eLinks Update

The CDL is happy to announce that the majority of the campus instances of UC-eLinks are in production (UCR should be ready to go live in the next few weeks.) The campus instances are managed by the UC-eLinks Liaisons on each campus <http://www.cdlib.org/inside/groups/uc-elinks/roster.html>

What is the benefit for patrons?
Patrons will now be able to seamlessly access both CDL and campus-licensed journal titles. Depending on the campus, this will mean an additional 200 to 1,500 electronic journal titles. Previously, patrons were only able to access CDL-licensed resources via UC-eLinks.

The extension of UC-eLinks to support campus-based resources that integrate with systemwide resources originated with and was endorsed by SOPAG. CDL negotiated the license for adding campus versions and worked with Ex Libris, the product vendor, on the technical enhancements to present combined services to users. The CDL will be hosting the SFX servers for most of the campuses.

How are the lists of titles for the CDL and campus versions of UC-eLinks maintained?

1. Ex Libris discovers the new titles and title changes in a variety of ways, such as through periodic tape loads from full text producers, data feed from the ISSN registry, the CONSER database (the set of serial records input/created or otherwise introduced to the OCLC database authenticated by CONSER members), and from user feedback.



2. Every month, Ex Libris sends Margery Tibbetts, the CDL UC-eLinks Project Manager, a KnowledgeBase (KB) Update, which includes software updates and database updates. (The KnowledgeBase is the behind-the-scenes database of journal titles and databases used for University of California linking.)



3. The KB Update is applied by CDL to all of the campus instances or versions generally during the second week of the month. The update process adds new portfolios (journal titles), new targets (full text vendors) and new sources (database vendors), but does not activate them. The update process also deletes titles and modifies coverage information.


4. For aggregator databases in which we license all of the titles, such as Expanded Academic ASAP, ABI/INFORM Global and Literature Online (LION), CDL has instructed the update process to automatically activate any new titles.


5. CDL activates/deactivates portfolios when we receive the information from the UCSD Shared Cataloging Program. The SCP stream is also used to update the Directory of CDL-licensed Content. If a new provider is added, CDL generally does not wait for SCP, but instead uses the title list from the vendor to activate the new target and list of titles, after the coverage is verified at UCSD. CDL also makes changes to the database based on feedback from the campus librarians and end users.


6. At the campus level, the UC-eLinks liaisons activate/deactivate portfolios in their own campus instances. They do this for the titles licensed by the campus that are not part of a 10-campus agreement. Each campus may have a different workflow from acquisitions/cataloging to UC-eLinks.


7. Occasionally the UC-eLinks liaisons and CDL staff have to wait to activate a title until Ex Libris has added it to the global database (KnowledgeBase). CDL cannot add titles to the global database; however, if a title is already in the database, CDL can add it to a target where it previously did not exist. For example, if the journal title Pediatrics was activated in HighWire Press but was also available (and perhaps sooner) via Expanded Academic ASAP, CDL can add and activate the title in the Expanded Academic ASAP target.


8. The original data load for UC-eLinks came from the Melvyl Catalog links database, which had a loose relationship with SCP. UC-eLinks and SCP are not synchronized at the moment. The CDL is in the process of updating all of the targets (except the aggregators) in the CDL instance of UC-eLinks, using title lists provided by SCP staff.

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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.

c. Information about CDLINFO

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