CDLINFO LISTSERV, October 11, 2000, Vol.3, No.14
CONTENTS
- New Resource Available
- MIT CogNet: The Cognitive and Brain Sciences Community Online
- ARTbibliographies Modern (Susan Jurist, UCSD)
- eScholarship Update
- CDL RFP Evaluation Steering Committee Progress Report
- What's New Page Revised
- ICOLC September 2000 Reports
- CDL Staff News
- John Kupersmith Joins the CDL
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about CDLINFO
1. New Resource 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. MIT CogNet: The Cognitive and Brain Sciences Community Online
The CDL has licensed and funded MIT CogNetŮ [http://cognet.mit.edu], for all campuses. Cognet is a SPARC-supported project (learn more about SPARC: http://www.arl.org/sparc/). The Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) endorsed and CDL supported licensing CogNet because it represents a new model for scholarly communication. CogNet offers a unique electronic community for researchers in cognitive and brain sciences. The service offers current and classic resources in the field, and provides a lively interactive forum for today's scholars, students, and professionals.
MIT CogNet's services include:
- A searchable, full-text library with a growing collection of books, journals, and reference works
- An academic almanac of cognitive science programs
- HotScience editorials by scientists on groundbreaking or controversial aspects of new research
- Job listings, candidate profiles, as well as other career information
- Publisher Collections
- CV and bibliography utilities
- Virtual poster sessions
- Threaded discussion groups
- A seminar manager with information about current seminars and lecture series at participating academic institutions
- Community member profiles
All this functionality is presented in a dynamic environment that constantly updates resources and reference tools available to community members.
NOTE: Currently, there is an access problem to CogNet's monographs for libraries that already have a campus subscription with NetLibrary (UCB, UCLA and UCSD). If a user logs into NetLibrary through their campus account, and then later in the same session tries to access any of the 250 NetLibrary cognitive science books through the MIT CogNet site (or vice versa), NetLibrary will only recognize the first access route and deny them access through the other. A short-term solution is to clear your browser cache or restart the browser. We are working with NetLibrary and CogNet to resolve this multiple access issue.
The Shared Cataloging Team at UCSD has already prepared cataloging records for the individual NetLibrary books. Once the multiple access issue is resolved, they will send the records to CDL's Shared Cataloging Server. They are hoping to be able to link directly from the individual CogNet Netlibrary bibliographic records to the e-book at NetLibrary. If this turns out not to be possible, they will link to the CogNet gateway instead.
b. ARTbibliographies Modern (Susan Jurist, UCSD)
Artbibliographies Modern was licensed as a Tier 2 resource (i.e., campus-negotiated) by UCB, UCI, UCLA, UCSD, and UCSB. Susan Jurist (San Diego) negotiated the business model with ABC-CLIO and cost shares amongst the participating campuses. ABM will be added as an addendum to the existing ABC-CLIO/CDL license and, as with other Tier 2s, CDL will handle renewals and recharges.
ABM contains abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews. The scope of ARTbibliographies Modern extends from artists and movements beginning with Impressionism in the late 19th century, up to the most recent works and trends in the late 20th century. Photography is covered from its invention in 1839 to the present. A particular emphasis is placed upon adding new and lesser-known artists and on the coverage of foreign-language literature.
ABM covers all aspects of modern and contemporary art, including performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theater arts, crafts, jewelry, illustration, and more, as well as the traditional fine arts of painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.
The Web version of the database covers volume years 1974 to the present.
2. eScholarship Update
CDL's eScholarship program is underway [http://escholarship.cdlib.org/]. Officially launched with the July 2000 release, the eScholarship initiative is now actively engaged with more than a dozen scholarly communities and partners. Together we are working to design and develop the organizational and technical structures, tools and services which will undergird the eScholarship program.
Central to this infrastructure are ePrint Repositories, provided by eScholarship, which allow creation and management of original content. Testing of the repositories is already underway and, in January 2001, a half dozen communities will begin using the repositories and the associated tools for submitting, accessing, modifying, enhancing and distributing new content in their disciplines. CDL has committed to archive, i.e., provide persistent access to, content deposited in the discipline-based repositories.
eScholarship is also pleased to announce the electronic publication, in January 2001, of Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles by UCSF's Stan Glantz and Edith D. Balbach. eScholarship is co-publishing the electronic edition with UC Press.
3. CDL RFP Evaluation Steering Committee Progress Report
As described in the September 6th issue of CDLINFO (Vol.3, No.12; available at http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo090600.html) the CDL RFP Evaluation Steering Committee (ESC) is analyzing responses to the proposals to move Melvyl and the CDL-hosted databases from their aging technology infrastructure to a commercial vendor's system. At this stage of the evaluation process, the committee is focusing on the vendors' descriptions of their ability to meet functional requirements set out in the RFP.
The committee met on September 25th and 26th and made substantial progress in analyzing the seven vendor responses. The committee's work now moves on to constructing questions for vendors that will clarify their responses in certain areas and seeking references from other customers about their experiences with these systems. The ESC will conclude its work by forwarding these analyses to the ESC Scoring Subcommittee who will officially score each qualifying response.
Members of the evaluation steering committee are the best sources of information about the RFP process. Please consult with your campus member if you have questions.
Evaluation Steering Committee members include:
Diane Bisom, UCI
Bob Brandriff, CDL (ex officio)
Karen Coyle, CDL (ex officio)
Laine Farley, CDL
Cheryl Gomez, UCSC
Jon Good, UCOP, IR&C
Bernie Hurley, UCB (Chair)
Ann Jensen, UCB
Julia Kochi, UCSF
Terry Ryan, UCLA
Catherine Nelson, UCSB
John Ober, CDL (ex officio)
Susan Starr, UCSD
John Tanno, UCR
David Walker, CDL
Gail Yokote, UCD
4. What's New Page Revised
The "What's New at the CDL" page [http://www.cdlib.org/news/whatsnew.html] has been revised to include a list (sorted by discipline) of all new content (previously it only included featured new content), new services and recent news and events. We hope this page will serve as a place for patrons and library staff to go to learn about recent developments.
5. ICOLC September 2000 Reports
Presentations and summaries from the ICOLC September 2000 meeting in Vancouver are now available online [http://silver.ohiolink.edu/ioclc/vancouverseptember2000.html]. The focus of the meeting was on the emerging e-book marketplace. The CDL was represented at ICOLC by Lucia Snowhill (UCSB), member of the CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections and Chair of the JSCSC's eBook Task Force.
6. CDL Staff News
a. John Kupersmith Joins the CDL
John Kupersmith will join the CDL on October 16 as an analyst in the Digital Library Services group. John has most recently been a part-time reference librarian at UC Berkeley's Information Center in the Doe Library. Prior to coming to Berkeley, he was the Internet Services Librarian for the Washoe County Library in Reno where he established the Internet Branch. He also brings a long career at the University of Texas at Austin where he served as Networked Information Services Coordinator responsible for user interface design and other public services aspects of the locally developed UTCAT online catalog and database system. John is also well-known for his publications and presentation on coping with "technostress". Please join us in welcoming John to the CDL.
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
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