CDLINFO LISTSERV, December 13, 2000, Vol.3, No.19
CONTENTS
- New Resource Available
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- EBSCO Agreement
- January 19th Release - Previews and Notes
- Request News: Evaluation of Consortial Borrowing System proposals
- 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. Royal Society of Chemistry
In another example of successful co-investment by UC campuses and the CDL, all Royal Society of Chemistry Journals are now available to all campuses. Although subscribed titles were previously available to each campuses, systemwide access to all Royal Society of Chemistry titles was a priority identified by the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Content. The list of high-quality titles includes PhysChemComm and Geochemical Transactions, new electronic journals supported by ARL's Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). All the business and license terms have been agreed upon; licensing and linking at the article level is in progress.
A list of the journals is available at: http://www.rsc.org/is/journals/current/ctitles.htm. They cover all branches of chemistry, including inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, physical chemistry and chemical physics.
2. EBSCO Agreement
CDL has signed an agreement with EBSCO to negotiate on CDL's behalf for systemwide licenses with a selected number of publishers for access to their electronic journals. The agreement was signed following the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) encouragement to explore services of a serials aggregator for systemwide ejournal licensing to contribute to and find efficiencies in the successful ejournal licensing program.EBSCO's responsibilities will include:
- Negotiating with publishers to follow CDL licensing principles and employ the CDL model license.
- Negotiating business terms for systemwide access to electronic journals.
- Implementing linking from CDL databases to articles for all electronic subscriptions.
- Handling administrative details.
Initially EBSCO will work with a select group of publishers drawn from a comprehensive JSC list based on the recent bibliographer surveys, JSTOR titles, and STIC priorities. As licenses are secured with the initial group additional publishers will be added to EBSCO's responsibilities.
The goal of business negotiations will be to gain access to all UC titles for all campuses from a given publisher without increasing overall UC expenditures. The CDL will fund EBSCO's services, and will continue to work to minimize the shared cost and cost increases for content.
Support of linking, for example from A&I databases to e-journal sites, is an important aspect of licensing and is well understood by EBSCO's technical staff. Like many other vendors and aggregators, EBSCO is examining SFX technology to better customize linking to content [For more information on SFX see a series of descriptive D-Lib articles, starting with http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april99/van_de_sompel/04van_de_sompel-pt2.html].
Readers should contact their campus Collection Development Officer, or CDL acquisitions contacts, for more information and watch CDLINFO for reports of the outcomes of the agreement.
3. January 19th Release - Previews and Notes
The January "release" of the CDL, to debut January 19th, focuses on new content associated with the Online Archive of California's Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA), eScholarship eprint repositories and publications, and a prototype version of the California statistics service titled "Counting California." Descriptions, status information, previews (where available) and other release items are now available for library staff at [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/jan2001/].
4. Request News: Evaluation of Consortial Borrowing System proposals
The deadline for responses to the RFP for a Consortial Borrowing System (CBS) was mid-November. As last reported in CDLINFO on November 8th, the CBS is an expansion of Request that would create a single workflow for requests, provide temporary tracking functions for materials while they are in the loan process, and support a wide range of administrative reports (Vol.3, No.16, see http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo110800.html#2). The CBS would replace the "fulfillment" of Requests now handled by OCLC, but would also hand off to OCLC and other sources those requests that cannot be filled within UC. Members of the evaluation team will meet December 18th and 19th. The evaluation is expected to be complete in February and, in the case of a successful bidder, implementation may start as early as spring. Evaluation team members are Tammy Dearie, Mary Heath, Michael Thwaites, Sherry Willhite, Marlayana Gates, Claire Bellanti, Gail Nichols, and Karen Butter.
Meanwhile, use of Request continues to grow steadily. Use by undergraduates accounts for some, but not all growth. Made available to them in September, undergraduate use has grown to 10% of the total use (comparable to the proportion of undergraduate use of traditional ILL), accounting for over 6244 of the 60,480 Requests placed in October and November (preliminary results; more complete statistics to be reported in 2001).
5. 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
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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