CDLINFO Newsletter, December 8, 2005, Vol. 8, No. 22
CONTENTS
- CDLINFO Survey: Your Feedback Is Important
- New Resource Available
- Factiva
- CDL Guidelines for Digital Objects, Version 2.0: Draft Release
- For More Information
- News and Publications
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- About CDLINFO
1. CDLINFO Survey: Your Feedback Is Important
The CDL has created a survey to allow us to better understand how you currently use the CDLINFO newsletter and learn about the types of information you may need and want from the CDL in the future.
The survey contains 10 questions and will take less than five minutes to complete. Your feedback is very important to us, and we would appreciate it if you would share your thoughts with us.
The survey will be available December 8–22 at
< http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/2734/cdlinfoSurvey.htm >.
Thank you in advance for your participation.2. New Resource Available
a. Factiva
By Michael Oppenheim (Resource Liaison), UCLA
Factiva, from Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive LLC, is a new Tier 2 acquisition negotiated on behalf of seven participating campuses: UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Merced, UC Riverside, and UC San Diego. Previously, Factiva has been available to the business school communities at UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, and UCLA; the combined purchasing power of the additional campuses now makes the database available campuswide at those institutions (Factiva has been available campuswide at UC Irvine for some years).
Factiva is a “mega” news and business information service, covering nearly 9,000 sources from 152 countries in 22 languages. The search interface is available in nine languages: English (the default), traditional and simplified Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Russian. Content ranges from trade and industry publications to general and financial newspapers, newswires, media transcripts, web sites, photographs, and more.Factiva is updated continuously, with more than 900 sources available on or before the date of publication. Coverage dates vary; some titles extend back more than 25 years. The majority of sources are available full-text, and are searchable by title, publication type, industry, geographic location, and language.
Factiva also provides stock performance data, company-to-industry comparative reports, market index reports, and business press releases. Close to 25,000 public and private company profiles are available; public companies may be screened by such criteria as industry, stock exchange, location, employees, price and share data, corporate performance, dividend and growth rate, valuation and liquidity ratios, and efficiency ratios.
The Celex database for the European Union is available via the Factiva “News Pages” tab; Celex includes EU directives, treaties, legislation, case law, and other documents.
Among the major domestic and international news and business publications available in Factiva are Barron's, BusinessWeek, the Economist, the Far Eastern Economic Review, Forbes, Fortune, Le Monde, El Mundo, the New York Times, Newsweek, Nikkei, El Pais, the South China Morning Post, Time, the London Times, the Straits Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Die Welt.
Factiva is working with SFX to provide article-level linking via UC e-Links. Implementation of this enhancement is projected for 2006. Currently, Factiva is best used on Windows operating systems with Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher; as of December 12, 2005, use of IE 5.5 or higher will be mandatory (and no version of IE will be supported for Macintosh). Netscape 8.0 may be used, but it is not fully supported. The Safari browser is recommended for Macintosh users. Factiva will not operate with the Mozilla browser.
3. CDL Guidelines for Digital Objects, Version 2.0: Draft Release
The CDL and Digital Library Services Advisory Group (DLSAG) are pleased to announce the release of the draft CDL Guidelines for Digital Objects, Version 2.0 (CDL GDO), available online in HTML and PDF format at <http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/guidelines/>.
We welcome your feedback on the guidelines. To assist with the release, the Systemwide Operations and Planning Advisory Group (SOPAG) is also soliciting feedback from SOPAG All-Campus Groups and campus specialists. The CDL will assess comments received by January 15, 2006 for incorporation into the final version of the guidelines, slated for release in early 2006. Please send comments to the CDL via the online form at <http://www.cdlib.org/inside/feedback/>.
Digital materials of ever-increasing variety and complexity are seen to be worth collecting and preserving by memory organizations such as libraries, archives, and museums. Materials include objects converted into digital form from existing collections such as manuscripts, maps, visual images, and sound files, as well as “born digital” materials such as web sites.In order for the CDL to provide effective preservation and access services, these materials need to be represented in a uniform manner. The CDL GDO provides specifications for all new digital objects prepared by institutions for submission to the CDL. It is based upon and supersedes the “CDL Digital Object Standard, Version 1.0” (May 2001) and the “OAC Best Practice Guidelines for Digital Objects, Version 1.1” (January 2004).
The CDL GDO includes the following primary changes:
- Establishes “sliding scale” requirements: the more points at which a digital object can be made to conform, the more preservation and access services can be provided for it.
- Provides specifications for preparing digital objects, comprising metadata and content files (e.g., digital images, text) packaged using the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) format.
- Includes updated recommendations for digital image files.
4. For More Information
a. News and Publications
News and events, press releases, reports and guidelines, and articles published by CDL staff are posted on the CDL web site. Please share news of this resource with your colleagues!
In addition, status information about CDL resources, reports, and working documents of particular interest to library staff are available on the Inside CDL web site.
b. Contacts for Questions or Problems
If you have problems accessing CDL resources or have questions, including questions about the status of electronic journal collections and Internet resources, contact the CDL:- 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.
- Or, send an email to cdl@www.cdlib.org.
For information about whether your UC campus has access to a particular electronic journal or Internet resource, contact your local collection development officer.
c. About CDLINFO
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