CDLINFO Newsletter, October 14, 2004 Vol. 7, No. 18
CONTENTS
- Successful Negotiation for SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts Service)
- New Resources Available
- EBSCO Business Source Premier
- CDL Receives $2.4 Million Library of Congress Grant
- OAC Local History Digital Resources Project Continues
- OAC Best Practice Guidelines for EAD, Version 2.0 Released
- Counting California Update: New Content and Advanced Search Page
- For Easy Access to ED Documents, Use ERIC Via CSA
- Library Staff News
- Hovey Lee Joins the CDL Staff
- For More Information
- News and Publications
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- About CDLINFO
1. Successful Negotiation for SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts Service)
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), has finally agreed to increase UC access to SciFinder Scholar.
The negotiation success with ACS was unique: it resulted from a convergence of similar financial concerns expressed by both UC faculty who are ACS members and UC librarians who offer SciFinder Scholar as an important library resource. Both groups questioned ACS's business practices as a non-profit society publisher with a mission to serve academia.
In its negotiations, the CDL reiterated the issues that faculty raised publicly about ACS salaries and executive compensation in light of a pricing policy for libraries that essentially restricted access to the world's chemistry literature.
The CDL also informed ACS of the new role of UCOP's Office of Scholarly Communication and recent collaborative actions taken by faculty and librarians to deal with economic issues in scholarly publishing.
The ACS is a professional membership-based society with $1 billion in assets. SciFinder Scholar pricing continues to be an issue for academic libraries across the country.
ACS's 2003 Annual Report is publicly available at: http://center.acs.org/ar2003/ar03_financials.pdf
2. New Resources Available
a. EBSCO Business Source Premier
By Adam Siegel (Interim Resource Liaison), UC Davis
EBSCO's Business Source Premier is now available to all 10 campuses. For more information about the transition to EBSCO from ProQuest ABI Inform, see the previous issue of CDLINFO: http://cdlib.org/inside/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo092304.html
Business Source Premier (BSP) offers comprehensive coverage of business areas such as management, economics, finance, international business and marketing.
It includes full text articles from 3,100 scholarly journals and business periodicals. Another 3,900 periodicals and other sources are indexed and abstracted, including trade journals, business magazines, country economic reports, industry reports and company profiles from Datamonitor, market research reports, and monographs from academic publishers such as Oxford University Press. BSP also features searchable, cited references for 1,205 peer-reviewed journals, and additional indexing and abstract backfiles for 350 selected scholarly journals going back to 1965 or the first issue.
In addition, BSP includes Regional Business News, with full text for more than 50 U.S. sources (including Crain Communications).
The EBSCO interface offers searchable PDF format with both simple and advanced search functionality, including search builders, search histories, subject headings and index browsing, alerts, and a business thesaurus with more than 12,000 terms.
The UC system selected EBSCO after UC selector groups conducted an in-depth comparative analysis of several business-specific electronic databases. The database was endorsed by the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections and approved by the Collection Development Committee to license as an important business resource for UC, with unique titles such as the Harvard Business Review (exclusive on BSP until 2010), California Management Review, and Sloan Management Review.
UC e-links are in place, and the CDL is working on shared catalog records.
3. CDL Receives $2.4 Million Library of Congress Grant
The CDL has been awarded a three-year, $2.4 million grant from the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Information and Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP). The award is for a project to develop web archiving tools that will be used by libraries to capture, curate, and preserve collections of web-based government and political information.
The CDL will be partnering with New York University, the University of North Texas, the UC libraries, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center, among others. For more information, see the press release announcement: http://www.cdlib.org/news/press_releases/award_announcement_final_20040930.doc
In addition, the UC Santa Barbara libraries received a three-year, $2.6 million grant from NDIIPP to form a multi-partner repository for digital geographic information such as maps, aerial and space photographs, population figures and other data.
4. OAC Local History Digital Resources Project Continues
The CDL is pleased to announce the continuation of the Online Archive of California (OAC) Local History Digital Resources Project. This multi-year project is supported by the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), administered in California by the State Librarian.
This pilot project explores a model to support the creation of and permanent public access to local history digital content through the OAC gateway (http://www.oac.cdlib.org) and through storage in the UC Libraries Digital Preservation Repository (http://www.cdlib.org/programs/digital_preservation.html).
Since the beginning of this project in 2000, more than 30 public and academic libraries, museums, and archives have provided public access to their content via the OAC. The process of creating digital facsimiles of their collections and creating the associated metadata requires a significant amount of effort, education, experience, and funds. Many LSTA projects have served local needs, but it is important that the resources created through these efforts are publicly available for the long-term to the citizens of California.
With the renewal of the LSTA grant in year five, the CDL will meet the following new objectives:
- Collaborate with the California State Library LSTA program to coordinate the work of LSTA grant-funded institutions participating in the Local History Digital Resources Project, including the implementation of standards and use of digitization project-related tools and services.
- Assess digital content created with LSTA funding from 1997/1998 through 2000/2001 for retrospective ingest and aggregation, including storage the UC Libraries Digital Preservation Repository.
For more information, see the project web site at: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/oac/lsta/
5. OAC Best Practice Guidelines for EAD, Version 2.0 Released
The OAC Working Group Metadata Standards Subcommittee is pleased to announce the release of the "OAC Best Practice Guidelines for EAD, Version 2.0" at: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/guidelines/bpgead/
These updated guidelines are based on the EAD Version 2002 DTD, the current version of the encoding standard maintained by the Society of American Archivists: http://www.loc.gov/ead
As explained in the OAC "News and Features" pages (http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/oac/news/), the revised guidelines will go into effect in January 2005 and will supercede the existing Version 1.1 guidelines. At that time, the OAC will ingest EAD Version 2002 DTD finding aids only.
Until then, OAC contributors may continue to use the existing Version 1.1 guidelines; however, the Version 1.1 guidelines will not be supported after December 2004. Alternatively, contributors may begin encoding new finding aids now using the updated Version 2.0 guidelines and delay submitting the finding aids to the OAC until after January 2005.
Please relay your comments and feedback on the guidelines to the OAC using the form at: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/oac/help/help_affiliates.html
6. Counting California Update: New Content and Advanced Search Page
The Counting California team continues to add new versions of currently available statistics and new titles (see below for a list of recently added content). Census 1980 STF3 files are coming soon.
In addition, Counting California (http://countingcalifornia.cdlib.org/) has an improved advanced search page. The topics pick list is an exciting new feature that provides users with a list of topics from which they can choose. Users can also search by keyword, table title, subject, agency, and publication title.
New Content
- California Vital Statistics: Newer versions of the California Department of Health Services vital statistics are now available:
- Deaths by age, county, and selected city health departments, 1998-2002
- Deaths by race, county, and selected city health departments, 1998-2002
- Deaths by year of death and by county, 1998-2002
- Live births in California counties, 1990-2002
- Number and percent of live births to teen mothers in California counties, 1990-2002
- County and City Data Book (1944-1977): This new resource provides diverse information ranging from local government activities to population estimates. Some of the areas covered include: business and industry; crime, law enforcement, and criminal justice; education; elections; income, poverty, and the cost of living; transportation; and work, labor, and employment. Available at: http://countingcalifornia.cdlib.org/title/ccdbca4777.html
A special thank you to the UC Berkeley DATA team of Fred Gey and Ilona Einowski for their hard work in making this resource available.
- California Statistical Abstract (2003): This annual compilation of detailed social, economic, and government statistics for California covers topics such as land and water, acreage of national and state parks, the California state economy, crime, education, and more. With the inclusion of the 2003 edition, there are now five consecutive years of the California Statistical Abstract, which users can search or browse simultaneously. Available at: http://countingcalifornia.cdlib.org/title/castat.html
7. For Easy Access to ED Documents, Use ERIC Via CSA
By Diane Childs (Resource Liaison), UCLA
More than 100,000 ERIC documents published in 2003 or earlier and indexed from January 1993 through July 2004 are now available from ERIC via CSA. Through UC-eLinks, users can click on the option full text or abstract available from ERIC. Downloading time has improved considerably.
To obtain ERIC documents when starting with an ED number, perform an Accession Number search in CSA in Advanced mode. To do this, select AN from the pulldown menu and enter the ED number, e.g., AN=ED481645. From the results display, click on UC-eLinks to obtain the ERIC document.
Users can also find ERIC documents via author and title searching in CSA. Note: If the document requested via UC-eLinks is not online at ERIC, users will get the message, "The Document you requested is not available in the ERIC Online system" and are offered the options to ask for assistance via email or phone.
As the Resource Liaison for ERIC, I am not recommending use of the ERIC search interface at http://www.eric.edu.govs. It does not have all of the search features needed to search ERIC effectively and it does not have the power we get from using ERIC via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts with UC-eLinks.
The UC system selected EBSCO after UC selector groups conducted an in-depth comparative analysis of several business-specific electronic databases. The database was endorsed by the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections and approved by the Collection Development Committee to license as an important business resource for UC, with unique titles such as the Harvard Business Review (exclusive on BSP until 2010), California Management Review, and Sloan Management Review.
8. Library Staff News
a. Hovey Lee Joins the CDL Staff
On Monday October 11, Hovey Lee joined the CDL staff as the Project Manager for Documenting the American West, a three-year project funded by a grant from the Hewlett Foundation: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/amwest/
Hovey has a broad range of professional project management experience in both corporate and public service environments, including the Brooklyn Public Library, About.com, Ziff Davis Media, City of Berkley, and most recently at Innovative Interfaces in Emeryville.
Please join us in welcoming Hovey to the CDL.
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