CDLINFO LISTSERV, November 29, 2001, Vol.4 No.21
CONTENTS
- CDL Database Transitions
- PsycINFO and PAIS via CSA Available for Testing
- Ovid Test Site Available
- New Resources Available
- Nature
- Additional Content from MIT Press
- Usability Testing Workshops Held
- New Resource Liaisons Appointed
- IEEE adds Alert feature (aka Update) (Camille Wanat, Resource Liaison)
- Library Staff News
- Jason Newborn and Margaret Tapper Join the CDL Request Team
- Felicia Poe Joins the CDL
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about CDLINFO
1. CDL Database Transitions
The Transition Steering Committee, Users Council, and associated Resource Liaisons have been notified of the availability of the following databases and asked to begin testing. Other library staff may also try the databases, but public access is scheduled to begin in January, 2002. The Transition Steering Committee is meeting on December 3 to discuss what must be in place and the exact dates for public access.a. PsycINFO and PAIS via CSA Available for Testing
PsycINFO and PAIS via CSA are now available for testing by campus library staff. You may access these databases from the SFX Prototype test page: http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/a-i-trans/sfxtest.html (click the "CSA Site" link)At the CSA site, choose Alphabetical list (in order to see the list of CSA databases), then click "quick search" or "advanced search", you will then have access to PAIS and PsycINFO, as well as others. Reference and instructional staff and collection development specialists can begin getting used to the interface, and preparing instructional guides to these versions. The test accounts are not intended for open access at in-library terminals. The public version of these databases will be available via CSA beginning January, 2002.
(As a reminder, PAIS via FirstSearch, will be retired on January 17, 2002. PsycINFO will remain in its CDL-hosted version through 2002, unless there are changes unanticipated by the CDL.)
There are guides to CSA features, such as Alerts, on the Adaptable Outreach and Instructional Materials page: Http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/comm/outreach/ .
The PAIS International database contains references to more than 460,000 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more from 1972- present.
PsycINFO provides access to international literature in
psychology and related disciplines. The database is enriched
with literature from an array of disciplines related to
psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine,
nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work.
Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and
all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the
Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.
b. Ovid Test Site Available
BIOSIS Previews, Current Contents, Ei Compendex Plus, INSPEC, and MLA International Bibliography via OVID are now available for campus library staff testing at this site: http://gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&Mode=ovid&PAGE=mainOnce you enter and open a database, you can find detailed help via the Help button on the upper right hand corner of the screen. Reference and instructional staff and collection development specialists can begin becoming accustomed to the interface, and preparing instructional materials to the Ovid versions of these databases. By clicking on OpenLink (SFX), you will find a separate window that opens and takes you either to a link for the full text version of the article, or to a link to the Melvyl catalog, for a link to the catalog record. Eventually, there will also be a link to the Request service for interlibrary borrowing.
The public version of these databases will be available
via Ovid beginning January, 2002. Ei Compendex will be retired
from SilverPlatter on December 31, 2001 and from Ei Village
June 30, 2002; MLA will be retired from SilverPlatter as
of March 1, 2002. BIOSIS, CC, and INSPEC are scheduled to
be retired at the end of 2002, unless there are compelling
reasons to do so earlier.
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. Nature
CDL is now providing access to Nature, the Nature Research journals, and the Nature Reviews journals for all UC users. For over 130 years Nature has been one of the pre-eminent scientific journals; the CDL is especially pleased that we have finally reached closure on this license. The decision to license Nature was a long one, involving negotiation regarding such issues as price, coverage, and perpetual access. In the end, due to intense interest on the part of the campuses, the CDL agreed to a license without perpetual access. We will continue to work on ways to provide the necessary continuity for these important titles.Included in the package are:
Nature
Nature Biotechnology
Nature Cell Biology
Nature Genetics
Nature Immunology
Nature Medicine
Nature Neuroscience
Nature Structural Biology
Nature Reviews. Genetics
Nature Reviews. Molecular Cell Biology
Nature Reviews. Neuroscience
Nature Reviews. Cancer
Nature Reviews. Immunology
For more information please see: http://www.nature.com/nature/.
b. Additional Content from MIT Press
The CDL has negotiated full text access for all UC Libraries to the MIT Press online journals that are not included in either CogNet or Project Muse. Titles included in this package are:American Journal of Bioethics
Evolutionary Computation
Global Environmental Policy
Grey Room
International Organization
Journal of Architectural Education
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
Journal of Industrial Ecology
Leonardo Electronic Almanac
Markup Languages
NBER Frontiers in Health Policy Research
NBER Innovation Policy and the Economy
NBER Macroeconomics Annual
NBER Tax policy and the Economy
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Reflections: the SoL Journal on Knowledge, learning, and Change
Review of Economics and Statistics
Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and econometrics
Full text access for both these newly licensed journals and the CogNet journals is available through CatchWord. At http://www.catchword.com, click on Online journals, then browse "Subscriptions" by "Publisher."
3. Usability Testing Workshops Held
Sixty UC Library staff, including campus Evaluation Liaisons, members of the Melvyl Education/Usability and Services Transition Teams, some SOPAG and Associate University Librarians for Public Service attended two Usability testing workshops hosted by the CDL at UC Berkeley on November 5 and UC Irvine on November 7. The workshops were led by Jerilyn Veldof, User Education Coordinator, and an expert on usability testing, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Attendees at the workshop learned not only the theory of usability testing, but were able to actually practice what they learned by conducting tests with UC Berkeley and Irvine students. Some attendees have reported that they have already put into practice what they learned at the workshops, and we also hope to use attendees' skills for conducting usability testing on the new version of Melvyl.
Many people helped make the workshops a success:
From the CDL-Juanita Jones, Angela Rowen, Rosalie Lack and
John Ober
At UC Berkeley-Brian Quigley, Patty Iannuzzi, Isabel Stirling,
Willyce Kim, Victor Edmonds, Obie Greenberg, Alberto Sifuentes,
and Victoria Williams.
At UC Irvine-Michelle Byerly, Rick Zwies , Susan Lessick,
and Library Administration.
4. New Resource Liaisons Appointed
Below is a list of recent Resource Liaison appointees. Resource Liaisons are responsible for researching, reviewing, and monitoring their assigned resource(s) in order to maintain quality service to users. More information about the Resource Liaison program is available at: http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/liaisons/.
- Chicano Database: Rafaela Castro (UCD)
- Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology and
Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry: Cory
Craig (UCD)
- Mary Ann Liebert Journals: Anne Prussing (UCSD)
- Royal Society of Chemistry journals: Christina
Keil (UCSD)
5. IEEE adds Alert feature (aka Update) (Camille Wanat, Resource Liaison)
There is a new release of IEEE Xplore. The new feature that will be most useful to our users is the capability for email alerts. Other highlights from this release are:articles accepted for future publication
extended objects with some articles
OPAC linking
a new feedback form
You can find the full release notes at: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/Releasenotes.htm
6. Library Staff News
a. Jason Newborn and Margaret Tapper Join the CDL Request Team
Jason Newborn and Margaret Tapper will join the CDL Request Team working 25% time for one year. Jason is on loan from UC Davis where he is a member of the ILL management team; he has extensive experience with ILL/ILB operations and with automation of their operational functions. Margaret is on loan from UC Irvine where she is a Programmer/Analyst in the Library Systems Department; she brings with her knowledge of ILL automation and very strong analytical and technical skills.They will be working on the CBS Implementation (see CDLINFO Vol.4, No.20 http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo110801.html#3 for more information). Their responsibilities will include providing ILL expertise as well as a campus perspective to the design, plan, and implementation of aspects of the Request service. They will be working with campus ILL units throughout the UC system to assist staff in configuring systems specifically for local operations and in adjusting workflows to take advantage of system functions.
We want to thank both UC Davis and UC Irvine for this contribution
to the co-library efforts. The addition of Jason and Margaret
to the Request Team will benefit us all.
b. Felicia Poe Joins the CDL
Felicia Poe will join the CDL on December 3 as the new Service Design Analyst in the Digital Library Services Group.
After completing her Master of Information Science degree
at Indiana University, she was the project manager and information
architect for the Indiana University Web Team where she
led the redesign of the IU home page and admissions sites.
Most recently, she has been working with the California
Supreme Court Judicial Center Library to redesign the user
interface for their new web-based library catalog. These
accomplishments are built upon a decade of experience in
the Information Resources Department of the Morrison &
Foerster law firm in San Francisco.
7. 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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