CDLINFO LISTSERV, October 25, 2001, Vol.4, No.19
CONTENTS
- CDL Database Transitions
- Ovid Chosen as Replacement Vendor
- All Transitioning CDL-Hosted Databases Now Have New Homes
- New Resources Available
- The American Civil War Letters & Diaries
- Oxford University Press
- Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins
- American Meteorological Society
- Jobs at the CDL Web Page
- UC Faculty Read about the CDL
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about CDLINFO
1. CDL Database Transitions
a. Ovid Chosen as Replacement Vendor
The Transition Steering Committee, with analysis from the Resource Liaisons, has recommended Ovid Technologies as the vendor for the following databases:-BIOSIS Previews, 1970-present
-Current Contents, 1993-present
-Ei Compendex Plus, 1970-present
-INSPEC, 1969-present
-MLA International Bibliography, 1963-present
Ovid Technologies is a major provider of electronic information to the academic community. UC users will have unlimited access to all five databases. The remaining two months of 2001 will be devoted to development customization, implementing links to full content, and testing. Ovid has agreed to implement a number of enhancements to its interface that will be added over time.
Below is the transition schedule for these databases:
| Database Name | New Access Begins | CDL Access Ends |
| BIOSIS Previews | January 1, 2002 | December 2002* |
| Current Contents | January 1, 2002 | December 2002* |
| EI Compendex Plus | January 1, 2002 | December 31, 2001 (Ends via SilverPlatter) |
| INSPEC | January 1, 2002 | December 2002* |
| MLA | January 1, 2002 | December 31, 2001 (Ends via SilverPlatter); telnet version ends |
*CDL is committed to maintaining access through December 2002 unless there are unforeseen circumstances, such as vendors making significant changes to their data structure, or recommendations to remove parallel access earlier.
Please refer to the Database Status document for detailed information about which services (e.g., Request, Update, etc.) will be available and when in the new versions of all A&I transition databases. Available at: http://www.cdlib.org/news/databasestatus.html .
Directions for access to these resources will be announced closer to their
implementation date, after the CDL has verified access.
b. All Transitioning CDL-Hosted Databases Now Have New Homes
What had seemed like an overwhelmingly difficult task last spring has successfully come to the end of its first phase. With the selection of Ovid as the vendor for the remaining group of CDL-hosted databases (see article above), all of the transitioning A & I CDL-hosted databases now have new access providers. [For the full list of databases undergoing transitions, see the Detailed Status of the Journal Article Databases Transition (http://www.cdlib.org/news/databasestatus.html).] The task at hand now is to ensure that the databases function well with their new vendors, and that CDL enhancements are in place by the time the CDL-hosted versions of databases retire.Many people have been involved in making the transitions successful: SOPAG for its initial endorsement of the transition; the Transition Steering Committee (TSC), with representatives from the nine campuses who determined policies and principles to guide the transition, and who made recommendations on vendors to select; the campus Resource Liaisons who recommended which vendors to review, and who gave several different vendor versions of databases a thorough work out, as well as for their continued coordination with database vendors, campus staff, and the CDL as the new vendor versions unroll; the UC Health Sciences Librarians and CDL MEDLINE Transition Task Force Members, who prepared stellar guides for making the transition to PubMed considerably easier for us all.
At the CDL, an A & I Team skillfully chaired by Laine Farley met weekly to ensure that all aspects of the transition went smoothly. Over the course of this phase, team members have included Jayne Dickson, Mary Engle, Linda Gallaher-Brown, Mary Heath, Rosalie Lack, Ellen Meltzer, John Ober, Margery Tibbetts, and Sherry Willhite. Programmers who have helped with many of the behind-the-scenes programming tasks that helped us make users aware of upcoming changes and who have been working on Request include Ellen England, Michael Russell, Claudia Woo, David Loy, and Michael Thwaites.
Many thanks to all of these people and groups who have enabled us to reach this important milestone. We have many equally important tasks ahead to ensure that these databases will continue function as valued research tools in the years ahead.
2. New Resources 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 list of recently added content is always available at: http://www.cdlib.org/news/whatsnew.html
a. The American Civil War Letters & Diaries
The first release of the American Civil War Letters & Diaries is now available [ http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/CWLDLive/ ].In this first release, 460 authors and approximately 32,000 pages of letters,
diaries and memoirs are available. This resource includes the writings of politicians,
generals, slaves, landowners, seamen, wives, and spies. The letters and diaries
give both the Northern and the Southern perspectives, as well as the views of
foreign observers. Detailed firsthand descriptions of historical characters
and events, glimpses of daily life in the army, anecdotes about key events and
personages, and accounts of sufferings at home, written for private consumption,
provide an immediacy and a richness that are unmatched in public sources.
b. Oxford University Press
Full-text access for all campuses to the full collection of Oxford University Press online journals is now available. The number of journals is expected to reach approximately 130 by the end of this year. This package, in partnership with the previously announced access to the online journal collection from Blackwell Academic Publishers, represents another step in CDL's efforts to add content of interest to faculty and students in the subject areas of Social Sciences and Humanities. Under terms of the license, the print portion of campus subscriptions may be canceled, however the online portion will remain a 90% obligation.c. Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins
In the health sciences, full-text access to all journals available online from Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins is now available. In addition to the 85 titles licensed by the CDL, the terms of the contract include trial access during 2001 to new titles that come online; the total is expected to increase to approximately 180. Journals that come online after December 2001 will be separately negotiated. This license provides for print at deep discount.The list of journals is available at: http://www.lippincott.com/onlinestore/periodicals/electronic.htm
d. American Meteorological Society
Full-text access, including all back files, is now available for all ten journals published by the American Meteorological Society. Pricing for this package is independent of campus print subscriptions. The only requirement is that at least one print subscription must remain among the consortium members. There is no print discount as part of this package.The list of journals is available at: http://ams.allenpress.com/amsonline/?request=get-archive
3. Jobs at the CDL Web Page
The CDL has created a new "Jobs at the CDL" page (linked from the "About the CDL" page) [http://www.cdlib.org/about/jobs.html]. It contains a list of jobs currently under recruitment at the CDL.
4. UC Faculty Read about the CDL
In the latest issue of "Notice" (a newsletter published for all UC faculty by the Academic Senate's Academic Council) is an article about the CDL. It is available online at http://www.ucop.edu/senate/notice/. It is a fairly comprehensive article that describes the CDL's collections and services and discusses some of the issues that the CDL is facing. The article has been shared with ULs and we bring it to your attention for your information and in the event it comes up in your discussions with faculty.
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 "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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