CDLINFO LISTSERV, September 26, 2002, Vol.5, No.17
CONTENTS
- CDL Database Transitions
- CDL Updates Retirement Notices Sent
- UC-eLinks Enhancements
- September Issue of Ex Libris Melvyl Tells
- New Resource Available
- BioMed Central Journals
- $1 Million in New Grant Funding for CDL-led UC Library Projects
- Library Staff News
- Linda Gallaher-Brown Retiring from the CDL
- Garland Giles - New CDL Office Manager
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about CDLINFO
1. CDL Database Transitions
a. CDL Updates Retirement Notices Sent
On September 25, the CDL sent out bulk mail messages notifying Updates holders of the upcoming database retirements and alternatives for Updates/Alerts in the vendor versions of the CDL-hosted journal article databases. They were referred to the web page “Creating Updates/Alerts in Article Citation Databases” for more information. http://www.cdlib.org/guides/vendor_updates/
The databases that will be affected include the following:
ABI/INFORM
BIOSIS Previews
Computer Articles
Current Contents
INSPEC
Magazine & Journal Articles
Newspaper Articles
PsycINFO
Additional reminder messages will be sent to Updates holders in October and November. As of November 20, web and telnet users will no longer be able to set up new Updates in the CDL-hosted journal article databases, but will continue to be able to in the Melvyl Catalog.
Campus members of the Transition Steering Committee, Users Council, and Resource Liaisons have received campus-specific lists of the numbers of Updates holders on their campuses and their holders’ email addresses.
b. UC-eLinks Enhancements
The CDL will be implementing some enhancements to the UC-eLinks service. UC-eLinks
currently leads to three services:
--Link to full text
--Link to library catalog for holdings
--Link to Request
In the present system, there are instances where there is insufficient data from UC-eLinks to enable Interlibrary Borrowing Services to request materials from other institutions. By setting a higher threshold for metadata, Interlibrary Services will no longer receive requests for items having insufficient information to fill a Request. Current examples of such incomplete requests are citations for chapters in books, conference proceedings, and pre-1986 items in CSA databases, though we expect many of these problems to be corrected in the near future.
In instances where there is full text, Request is not currently an option from UC-eLinks according to policies governing Request. However, there are instances in which a user wants a print copy of an item for whatever reason. In addition, there are times when there is insufficient information to make a Request, but another UC library would clearly have the item. In both of these instances we want to provide the opportunity for users to fill out a blank form from the Request option on UC-eLinks. Therefore, the CDL proposes the following: when VDX is initiated on all campuses, we will link to the VDX blank Request form. In the meantime, we will link users to their campus interlibrary services where they can fill out a blank form.
Below is a description of the new policy:
c. September Issue of Ex Libris Melvyl Tells
See the latest issue of El Mel Tells [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/elmeltells/emtv1n3.html]
for articles on:
--Merging Records in the Melvyl Union Catalog
--Options for Title Searching in Melvyl-T
--Staff Profiles
2. New Resource Available
A list of recently added content is always available at: http://www.cdlib.org/news/whatsnew.html
a. UC’s eScholarship supports BioMed Central Journals
Under the auspices of the California Digital Library’s eScholarship program, the University of California has joined BioMed Central (BMC), an open access publisher, as an institutional member. UC’s collaboration with BMC is consistent with eScholarship’s mission to facilitate and support faculty-led innovations in scholarly communication. Scholars publishing in BMC journals are ensured widespread dissemination of their work while supporting open access to scholarly publishing.
BioMed Central is a publishing company committed to a policy of free access to the primary literature of scientific research. (For a list of 80+ BioMed Central journals please see: http://www.biomedcentral.com/libraries/oajournals.asp.) BMC funds its publications by levying a processing charge of $500 for each article published and through secondary publications such as review journals that have access charges. UC’s institutional membership entitles researchers at UC campuses to a waiver of the article processing fee. There are no subscription charges or registration barriers to access. Journal articles are indexed, and thus linked via UC-eLinks, in PubMed, CrossRef, CAS, BIOSIS and ISI Web of Science. They have been cataloged by Shared Cataloging and appear in the CDL Directory.
BioMed Central provides rapid peer review and publication of submitted articles. Authors whose papers are published in a BioMed Central journal will retain the copyright of their work and are free to put their papers on a publicly accessible server if they wish. BMC’s submission, review and publication process takes place online in a user-friendly web-based system. A number of UC faculty have already published in BMC journals.
All campuses have identified liaisons to coordinate BMC publicity and activities
on their campuses. The liaisons are:
Isabel Stirling, Berkeley
Ruth Gustafson, Davis
Lorelei Tanji, Irvine
Barbara Schader, Los Angeles
Donald Barclay, Merced
Diana Lane, Riverside
Susan Starr, San Diego
Peggy Tahir, San Francisco
Annie Platoff, Santa Barbara
Catherine Soehner, Santa Cruz
3. $1 Million in New Grant Funding for CDL-led UC Library Projects
The CDL and partners have been awarded the following grants:
1) The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has provided $374,000 in funding for a two-year demonstration project led by CDL and the Berkeley Library in the creation of a UC libraries preservation repository, which will serve as a model for multi-institutional digital materials following the OAIS reference model. The project will explore issues related to repository operation and policies. The grant proposal drew deeply from the work reported in SOPAG's Digital Preservation and Archiving Committee's report from October 2001.
2) The IMLS has also funded a two-year research project involving the CDL, the Bancroft Library, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology as well as the Grunwald Center and the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, Department of Information Studies at UCLA, to develop and complete a formal user evaluation of the Museums in the Online archive of California (MOAC). The $337,000 grant will also develop evaluation tools that can be used by other digital libraries, and make good general recommendations for the improvement of digital libraries based on the results.
3) The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has provided $150,000 in funding for a one-year project based at CDL conducting a cost benefit review of the approaches and technologies available for the capture, curation, and persistent management of web-based government publications of the US state and federal governments.
Press releases for the The IMLS can be found at www.imls.gov. More information about these projects, including contact information, will be shared in upcoming editions of CDLINFO.
4. Library Staff News
a. Linda Gallaher-Brown Retiring from the CDL
Linda Gallaher-Brown started out in computing in 1965 while a freshman at Sacramento State. Encouraged by her father, Jean Gallaher she took a summer job with the US Bureau of Reclamation programming in Fortran and SPL on an IBM 1620 with 32K, no operating system and no disk storage.Linda started work at the UCLA computing center as a Programmer/Analyst I in 1968, transferring about a year and a half later to the Institute for Library Research as a Programmer/Analyst II. Linda’s Center for Information Services project was transferred to the computer center where her group developed an SDI service on Chemical Abstracts files. This was Linda’s introduction to bibliographic data.
Linda joined the staff of ULAP (University Library Automation Program), a predecessor organization of both DLA and the CDL as a Programer/Analyst III in 1978. An early project was the first union catalog of books for UC on microfiche. Linda worked with David Loy on the UCDBMS, an extension of the MARC format designed to accommodate union catalog merged record formats, and the DLARMS, which mapped bibliographic record structures to ADABAS record formats. ADABAS remains the underlying database management software for legacy Melvyl, and the DLARMS and UCDBMS are still in use today.
Linda wrote the specs for SGJA, the program which loads the LC and campus bibliographic records for books into the Melvyl Union Catalog of Books. Linda worked with Karen Coyle and Margaret Low on “full consolidation”, which enabled the merging of records in the Union Catalog, even if they didn’t match perfectly on LCCN. Linda also wrote the specs for SCOL, as DLA worked to move CALLS into an on-line database.
DLA mounted A&I databases throughout the 1990s. Linda worked with Margaret Low to design the “generic” table-driven software that was used to build the IAC databases (MAGS, NEWS and COMP), INSPEC, PSYC, BIOSIS and ABI.
More recently Linda worked on testing the Aleph software, both searching and the equivalency algorithm. We will miss Linda’s depth of knowledge and experience and her commitment to production quality applications. We will also miss her sense of fun, her flair for Halloween costumes and the many beautiful arrangements from the bounty of her garden.
b. Garland Giles – New CDL Office Manager
Garland Giles will be joining the CDL October 7 as Office Manager.
Garland comes to CDL from Educational Outreach in the UCOP Division of Academic Affairs where he was the Management Services Officer. Prior UC service includes three years in the UCOP Office of Health Affairs and three years at the UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute. In these roles, Garland gained extensive experience in managing the special projects, personnel and finances of very progressive organizations.
At the CDL, Garland will manage the work of the Administrative Services Unit ensuring its continued smooth operations of the CDL offices and its high-quality support for CDL staff. He will serve as liaison to UCOP Building Services and take charge of all matters relating to equipment, PC Support, and facilities. He will also provide leadership and act as a resource to departmental managers in the area of administrative and special project support, staff development and training.
5. 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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